Help settle a bet.

[laconicsax]

The bet is whether anyone would notice if a boy baby was wearing clothing with buttons on the left like on a women's coat or if a girl baby was wearing clothing with buttons on the right like on a men's coat AND if anyone would actually care.

[Chan790]

1. I wouldn't notice.

But then again, androgyny doesn't faze me; it seems so commonplace that I need it pointed out to me most times even when it's unsubtle.

[Incitatus]

2. womens clothing has buttons on the opposite side as mens?

I guess that makes my answer a no

[krispos42]

9. Yeah

I believe it's a leftover from when a lady's servant would button up her clothing.

:shrug:


Or maybe it's so modern husbands can undress their wives easier...?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. I sure wouldn't notice!

In fact, I am now wearing men's polo shirts, complete with the buttons the other way, and nobody notices.

It's a tiny detail and hard to spot, no matter how old the person is.

:shrug:

:hi:

[marzipanni]

4. I'd say the only person who might notice

is someone who is buttoning the clothes they are wearing, and most babies don't button their own clothes. ;)

[struggle4progress]

5. Somebody would surely notice, but not just anybody would, and I'm sure there really are

people who would actually care, though I myself don't have a clue why

:shrug:

Does this fall under the category "Pointless things to argue about to keep your marriage lively"?

[laconicsax]

8. A different category:

Something is being knitted and a decision has to be made about which side to put the buttons.

[struggle4progress]

11. I think the rule in such situations is "them what does th'work calls th'shots"

though if baby's ma or pa would care about "on what side th'buttons goes" it would be politick to take that into account

[petronius]

6. I, personally, would neither notice nor care, and I suspect 99.999% of humanity

would say the same. However, I'm equally certain that there is a tiny tiny fraction of the population who would not only notice, they would be enraged by it and would make it their life's mission to get the parent of said child declared unfit...

[chollybocker]

7. In a small-business course I took,

...it was said that, when woman enter any store, they instinctively lean to the left, and men automatically go to the right, so most stores display men's items toward the right, and women's items to the left. Check it out next time you're shopping.

Edit: Sorry, I really didn't answer the question, which would be It's in the eye of the beholder. :)

[krispos42]

10. Unless they had to undress/dress the baby... probably not.

And maybe not even then.

A man buttoning a girl's coat would have the buttons on the same side as when the man buttons his own shirt, so he might not even notice that it's backwards.

[bif]

12. No and no.

I didn't even know there was a difference until I accidently bought a woman's raincoat. Boy is that a pain to snap up!

[RedCloud]

13. You mean you are not practicing nudism? You were not born wearing clothes, you know.

[struggle4progress]

14. Wait. What? Aren't babies nowadays born wearing SCUBA suits?