Buttons have existed as a way of fastening clothes since thousands of years BC, but over the last few millennia no one’s been able to explain the provenance of a rather curious buttoning practice: Why do men’s and women’s clothing have buttons on opposite sides?
It’s a peculiar fashion norm: Design convention dictates that a man’s buttons should be on the right hand side of a garment (say, a shirt) with the buttonholes on the left, but that a woman’s shirt should be the other way around: buttons on the left, holes on the right. This means that men button from left to right, but women from right to left. Why is this still a thing? Why was this ever a thing?

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