Have You Ever..... - Saint Louis,MO

There is a different side for woman's button, because WAY back in the day...woman didn't dress themselves. Wealthy woman (and that's who clothes were made for) for as long as time began, did not dress themselves. It made it easier for someone dressing them, to have buttons on the opposite side. It's just always remained on that side. Now, they are just starting to make clothing differently, because woman have dressed themselves for so long...it just seems silly to have them on that side.

Hahahaha...bored at work, I feel you...
Little trivia for you, the buttons are on different sides because men have always dressed themselves but women had "dressers" to button their clothes for them. The side was reversed for the person doing the buttoning. Maybe your clothes were made by a liberated company...lol...

Not pants, but I have shirts. So strange. And I am positive this was a woman's shirt! At least in this country!

ETA: I like this idea of someone dressing me.....

I never realized that women's and men's buttons were on different sides. Well I'm just not very observant, am I?

I had that happen too. The pants fit me really well, but the buttons are backwards. I wondered about that. It drives me crazy, because now I have to think about it when I am taking my pants off/putting them on.....rrrrrr

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Wow - you learn something new every day, I had no idea that is how them being on the other side originated. But I vote to leave it be!! LOL I am used to my buttons the way they are!

That came up at home about a month ago. I used to be able to tell my girls jeans from my son's with no problem. Now, unless they are really different, I can't just take a look at the way they button to know for sure it is my son's if the size is the same. I told my daughter that boy's pants button this way and girl's the other but then she goes and gets her pants and show me they are the same as her brother's. So much for mom being right.

The pair of woman's pants I was wearing yesterday buttoned the opposite way. We were at the zoo with family all day and it kept making me stop for a minute each time I stopped for a pit stop. I am 100% sure they are woman's pants, they were capris at that, made by a company that's nearly all woman http://www.isisforwomen.com/.
So weird.
Like what's already been said, the side of buttons is left over from the age of servants and dressers. Now I'm curious why it's going to the other side LOL

Maybe they are for lefties?

Yes. I have a couple of items like that and I HATE that. It is very annoying...

Not knowing where you bought them, maybe they are "seconds" like you find in Ross, and T.J.Maxx, and other discount stores. Or a new fashion trend. Some designer going for the "cross dresser" look for men.