#Yahoo! Answers: Answers and Comments for Why do men's clothes button on the opposite side as women's? * Yahoo! * My Yahoo! * Mail Search the web ____________________ Web Search Yahoo! Answers * Sign In * New User? Sign Up * Answers Home - * Forum - * Blog - * Help * Home * Browse Categories + Arts & Humanities + Beauty & Style + Business & Finance + Cars & Transportation + Computers & Internet + Consumer Electronics + Dining Out + Education & Reference + Entertainment & Music + Environment + Family & Relationships + Food & Drink + Games & Recreation + Health + Home & Garden + Local Businesses + News & Events + Pets + Politics & Government + Pregnancy & Parenting + Science & Mathematics + Social Science + Society & Culture + Sports + Travel + Yahoo! Products * My Activity Sorry, you need to be Signed in to see this. Not a member? Join Here. * About + How Answers Works + Points & Levels + Community Guidelines + Leaderboard + Suggestion Board + Answers Blog * Ask What would you like to ask? ____________________ Continue * Answer * Discover What are you looking for? ________________________________________ Search Y! Answers Advanced Search 1. Home > 2. All Categories > 3. Beauty & Style > 4. Fashion & Accessories > 5. Resolved Question tigglys tigglys Member since: August 01, 2006 Total points: 22,040 (Level 6) * Add Contact * Block Resolved Question Show me another » Why do men's clothes button on the opposite side as women's? * 9 months ago * Report Abuse Poke by Poke Member since: September 01, 2009 Total points: 282 (Level 2) * Add Contact * Block Best Answer - Chosen by Asker I saw a show on this once. Women's buttons are opposite from men's side (vise versa) because back then maids or servants would button a woman's buttons for her, so the buttons would be on the side facing the maids. Men didn't need servants to button their buttons so the buttons would be on the side more convient for the man to button them * 9 months ago * Report Abuse * 875 people rated this as good Asker's Rating: 4 out of 5 Asker's Comment: Seems silly that we do this still, doesn't it? Thanks for the info. * Action Bar: * 312 stars - mark this as Interesting! * Email * Comment (56) * Save + Save to Yahoo! Bookmarks + Add to My Yahoo! + Add to Del.icio.us + RSS Sanity Assassin Sanity Assassin Hmpf! Interesting..! Always wondered -never asked! Report Abuse Rezurektid Skwerl Rezurektid Skwerl LIES!.. Poke references TV?!. show me a wikipedia article and i'll believe her then!.. Report Abuse verymuchacatperson :D verymuchacatperson :D wiki is not reliable...anyone can post something thatz totally false Report Abuse Kimba Kimba None of the answers were right. Its only because women use the left side of their brain and men use the right side. Report Abuse Kimba Kimba http://www.psychologyhelp.com/… Report Abuse PROUD WHITE ARYAN! PROUD WHITE ARYAN! Just shows how traditions can die hard even long after the reasons for them are long gone. Report Abuse clahador clahador kinda kinky... Report Abuse Ditka Ditka Obviously Prismina is a man hater.. Must be she has been out smarted by a man for years and this is her only way to strike back.. Good luck in life Prismina.. you are sure to be a failure! Report Abuse Joyce Joyce wonderful Report Abuse <3 <3 I always thought it was because of the man's adam's apple. Report Abuse fancypantsy fancypan… Well some men make their own clothes and have their buttons reversed. It ths thbecauseth they prether ith that wayth. Report Abuse amazon dot com buyer... amazon dot com buyer... lol @ all the answers hidden due to their low ratings Report Abuse Christine ♥ Christine ♥ Buttons were traditionally always right over left, but it was changed on men's clothing so that they could use a sword in the right hand and button with the left. In some traditional Jewish communities, the men's coats still button right over left. Report Abuse Levi Levi boooooooooring........... Report Abuse ~~Fast Eddie~~ ~~Fast Eddie~~ I've heard that men often had a valet dress them, and that was why the placement of the buttons were that way. Report Abuse