{"id":795,"date":"2022-03-28T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weeklytips.brightleafweb.com\/?p=795"},"modified":"2022-03-20T15:55:41","modified_gmt":"2022-03-20T22:55:41","slug":"the-gender-politics-of-buttons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weeklytips.brightleafweb.com\/?p=795","title":{"rendered":"The gender politics of buttons."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why left handed buttons for women? In Victorian times, right handed maids did most of the buttoning for fashionable women. Left-handed buttons indicated wealth (you had enough to pay a maid to do the tedious work). As with everything, there\u2019s an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=33983\">answer on the Internet<\/a>. By the time sewing machines and patterns became popular in the 1850\u2019s, right over left buttoning for women\u2019s wear became standard, likely for economic reasons more than male-domineering political ones. We\u2019re not even going to start thinking about how zippers and Velcro could have influenced women\u2019s rights. We clean \u2018em all, and no matter what direction, if your button is missing, we\u2019re going to replace it. Without charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why left handed buttons for women? In Victorian times, right handed maids did most of the buttoning for fashionable women. Left-handed buttons indicated wealth (you had enough to pay a maid to do the tedious work). As with everything, there\u2019s an answer on the Internet. By the time sewing machines and patterns became popular in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-care-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklytips.brightleafweb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklytips.brightleafweb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklytips.brightleafweb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklytips.brightleafweb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklytips.brightleafweb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/weeklytips.brightleafweb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":796,"href":"https:\/\/weeklytips.brightleafweb.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions\/796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklytips.brightleafweb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklytips.brightleafweb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklytips.brightleafweb.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}