As for the matching of clothes, if the inside is on the right side, it is on the right front, and if it is on the left side, it is on the left front, and men's clothes are on the right front. This is because it is easier for right-handed people to fasten the button on the front right, and right-handed people have long been the majority.
Then why are women's clothes on the left side? Its origins date back to the times of medieval Europe.
Originally, buttons were born as ornaments in the ancient Greek era, and were originally used as pure ornaments for more than 2000 years, rather than parts to be fastened with buttonholes. Before long, craftsmanship was devised to fasten buttons in buttonholes for European court clothes around the 13th century.
At that time, clothes with buttons were extremely expensive because they took a lot of time and effort to sew, and could only be worn by people of the upper class who frequented the imperial court. And, as was common practice in the upper classes of the time, men would change their clothes themselves, while women would leave it up to the servants to do it themselves. That's because he wore a corset. Therefore, women's clothes are placed on the left front so that the servants standing in front of the wearer can easily change clothes, and this tradition continues even today.
I don't know if it will continue in the future, but it may remain traditional in the same way that the French horn is still fingered with the left hand.
As an aside, the fact that Japanese clothes are worn on the right front for both men and women is due to the Migimae Edict and the Akushaku Edict issued in 719 (Yoro 3) of the Nara period .
Until then, Japanese clothes were usually worn on the left side, but in China, an advanced civilization that Japan used as a model at the time, the left side was despised as "the manners and customs of barbarians." Since then, the right front has been preserved for 1,300 years.
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