Not all shirts are created equal. People are just realizing that women’s shirt buttons are on the left side, while men’s are on the right — with many questioning these details.

However, if you wear men’s shirts, the buttons line up on the right. “This is not a big thing, but it is a weird thing,” wrote the Atlantic ’s Megan Garber in 2015.

But when this custom ended, no one felt it was necessary to reverse buttons on women's shirts to the opposite side. Like the QWERTY keyboard, buttons and zips have kept their place because there ...

Button-down shirts lean more casual, while button-up shirts (in the classic menswear sense) lean dressier. Button-downs are ...

MANY women are only just now realizing why their shirt buttons are on the left side – and why men’s clothing is the opposite. Have you ever wondered why menswear and womenswear tend to be sli… ...

Have you ever worn a button-up shirt meant for another gender, and wondered why your fingers struggled with the buttons? It’s because men’s and women’s shirts are buttoned on opposite sides.

The seemingly arbitrary gendering of buttons on men’s and women’s clothing probably isn’t something you’ve considered unless, like me, you’ve taken the perfect gingham shirt into the ...

Some think Napoleon could have ordered that women’s shirts be buttoned on the opposite side of men’s to stop the bullying. Child-rearing may be a reason women have their buttons on the left.

Why do you think women’s shirt buttons are on the left? “In Man and Woman: A Study of Secondary and Tertiary Sexual Characters, 1894, Havelock Ellis writes that the right to left buttoning of women’s ...