Difference between men and women buttons
Very few people pay attention to making sure that the cloth that they are purchasing is for the gender in question, especially some men when the boutique clearly says ‘men clothes’.
Right from zip to the buttons, shirts, and trousers, for both men and women have got a slight difference and not only the texture and or material design but mostly on buttons and zips.
Men buttons are always placed on the right and button holes on the left. On the other hand, women buttons occupy the left hand and holes on the right.
This is opposite when it comes to trousers flaps.
But how did this come out
Theories
The most common explanation comes from the fact that clothing, for wealthy men, often included weaponry.
Since most men held swords in their right hands, this Quora thread explains, “it was more convenient and quicker to use their left hand for unbuttoning.”
“To insure that an enemy’s lance point would not slip between the plates,” curators write in The Art of Chivalry: European Arms and Armor from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, “they overlapped from left to right, since it was standard fighting practice that the left side, protected by the shield, was turned toward the enemy. Thus, men’s jackets button left to right even to the present day.”
Given right-hand dominance, women tend to hold their infants in their left arms, keeping their right arms relatively free. So shirts whose open flap is on the right, one theory goes, makes it easier for them to open with those free hands for breastfeeding
And the fact could be?
The most reasonable theory, though, has to do with the fact that, when clothing conventions were becoming standardized, many women did not dress themselves.
Wealthy women, in particular. And since buttons were expensive, with intricately fastened clothing doubling as luxury items, the conventions about them were decided by the wealthy.
Servants were often required to help rich ladies get into and out of their elaborately buttoned dresses—and servants, like everyone else, were most commonly right-handed.