Reply #34: I've been told that women's clothing is made to be [View All]

[iris27]

right-handed to the servant dressing them, ala Scarlett and her maid in "Gone with the Wind". No idea if there's any truth to that, but obviously something that needs to go out the window nowadays. (And obviously all the women of that time who didn't own slaves or pay servants still had to dress themselves with backwards buttons and zippers, so it's not like it was ever a "good" idea.)