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Buttons and zips

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GreatGooglyMoogly · 13/10/2008 10:34

Why are buttons and zips on opposite sides on boys' and girls' clothes?

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AMumInScotland · 13/10/2008 16:22

I think it goes back to Victorian times, when posh ladies had someone to button them into their clothes, so the buttons were put the opposite way round...

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