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Why are buttons and zippers on different sides of men’s and women’s clothes?

  • Written by JuYoung Lee, Associate Professor of Fashion Design and Merchandising, Mississippi State University
imageIs the person wearing the clothes fastening their own buttons?kampee patisena/Moment via Getty Images

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