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On Saturday, April 22, 2017 at 12:06:54 PM UTC-4, Oren wrote:
On Sat, 22 Apr 2017 10:24:59 -0500, philo wrote:

On 04/22/2017 06:33 AM, Thomas wrote:
'Good' shirts have the horizontal hole.


Guess I need to invest in better t-shirts


(...or "wife beater shirts") https://tinyurl.com/n4ezr45

IIRC female shirts have buttons on the opposite side than a male
shirt.


Back in (very) old days, the servants of the royalty would button the dresses of their
female masters AKA mistresses. (No, not that kind!)

The opposite side buttons made it easier for the righted hand servants to button
the garments. The left handed servants were probably burnt as witches.