Zip on the wrong side?!

Isn't this all related to buttons?

The reason why the side that buttons on differs for women is that historically, buttons were moved to the left on fancy clothing because it made it easy for the person dressing the woman to do so, as an affluent woman would have staff who would dress her.

Eventually all makers of women's clothes adopted this because of the association of being fancy, even if they weren't.

While zips may have somewhat adopted this, I'm not really sure they have ever carried the same association, so I don't think it really matters what side the zipper does up. Ultimately, unlike buttons, once a zipper is done up, you have no idea what side it is on.
 
Threadless Tees do this with their hoodies too, and the headphone loops/pocket holes are on the wrong side for most headphones too.

Annoying.
 
toasteh said:
American jackets often have the zip the other way round, my m65 army surplus jacket does as well as one from Hollister.
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Yep, I have a jacket I bought in Canada and it's got the zip on the other side, caught me out all the time when I first got it.
 
After reviewing all documentation I can confirm this is because you're a girl.
 
Am I alone in wondering why people wear these, seems like it's to wear on top of a coat / jacket.

What about your arms man! Don't they get cold?
 
I've had zips on both sides and can't say it ever made me go "how weird" - however, now I come to think of it, most of my jackets have had the zip on the left hand side, however it never struck odd to have them on the other side either. Yay for being ambidextrous I guess?! :confused: :p
 
You also get zips on the wrong side on anything that zips into something else. For example my North Face fleece has the zip on the wrong side because it designed to be zipped into my North Face jacket.
 
Odd, but thought nothing about it ever since I am in the USA & never been overseas. One thing that is annoying is the size thing over here, a lot of clothes, shoes, etc one size from different companies are not the same.
 
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