One good theory is that around the same time many women, especially ( 4 )
who were wealthy or noble, did not dress themselves. A servant did that for them.
As the servants were also mostly right-handed, it made sense for women's buttons
to be on the left. And as fashion is often determined by the rich and famous before
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being copied by the rest of us, it is thought that the pattern for all women was set
in that way.