Buttonholes : some differences in gender-related front closures

Author

Lopez, Judith

Document type

Article (journal)

Language

English

Source

Dress. 1993, Vol. 20, 74-78, 3 ill.

ISSN

0361-2112

Abstract (en)

Publishes results of a study monitoring the direction of front closures 1860-1920 to discern how the standard to right-over-left emerged for women. Illustrations of clothing in periodicals were compared with extant garments from the same period. Author concludes that the development of right-over-left closures for women grew steadily between 1860 and 1920, but left-over-right had become the norm for men at least a century earlier. All of the extant menswear found buttoned left-over-right, but only two-thirds of the womenswear found fastened right-over-left.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1800-1945 -- Decorative arts -- Textiles and costume
• Costume
• 1800-2000
• Buttons
• Gender (sex)

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1800-1945 -- Arts décoratifs -- Textiles et costume
• Costume
• 1800-2000
• Bouton
• Sexe (catégorie)

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19950401-00312573

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