I’d always heard it was the opposite. Women had help to get dressed so the buttons were positioned to make it easier for someone else but men had to do it themselves.
To be fair, your username DOES grant you a certain leeway when it comes to accidentally giving the wrong impression and/or otherwise miscommunicating, or at least it should 😄
Yeah this jives with what I remembered. And the images of a person pulling strings on a corset usually with a foot in her back for leverage. When you need another person and mechanical advantage to put on a garment, something is wrong somewhere.
I’d always heard it was the opposite. Women had help to get dressed so the buttons were positioned to make it easier for someone else but men had to do it themselves.
Women’s clothing also tends to have fasteners in the back. Corsets, bras, dresses, etc. Not a woman but I have undone my fair share of garments.
…ladies
Oh my god. Yeah, that sounded better in my head. Leaving it for posterity but I swear I’m not that guy.
To be fair, your username DOES grant you a certain leeway when it comes to accidentally giving the wrong impression and/or otherwise miscommunicating, or at least it should 😄
If you want to sound like a creep, just add the word “Ladies” to the end of things that you say.
The article suggests that women had more complicated garb that required support staff.
Yeah this jives with what I remembered. And the images of a person pulling strings on a corset usually with a foot in her back for leverage. When you need another person and mechanical advantage to put on a garment, something is wrong somewhere.
Very possible i got this the wrong way around, or that I’m incorrect entirely.