Hidden Features Of Everyday Items

Shirt Buttons

While the purpose of buttons is pretty straightforward, the reason why they're located on the left side of a shirt, even though most people are right-handed, is unknown to many. As it turns out, putting buttons on the left of clothes is an old tradition that remained from a time when buttons represented your social and financial status. If you owned buttons, you were most likely dressed by a chambermaid, and, as the chambermaid's right is to your left, the tradition came to be.