# The hell?... I'm wearing left-handed pants! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 6, 2004, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hell-im-wearing-left-handed-pants/278415 "2004-12-06T21:25:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Keapon\_Laffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e274bd/32.png) [@Keapon\_Laffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Keapon_Laffin)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hell-im-wearing-left-handed-pants/278415/21 "2004-12-07T01:56:41Z")
Damnit, I’m wearing left-legged pants. ---
**Author:** ![umop\_ap\_sdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/dbc845/32.png) [@umop\_ap\_sdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/umop_ap_sdn)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hell-im-wearing-left-handed-pants/278415/22 "2004-12-07T02:28:04Z")
> [@Eats\_Crayons](#): > > Fashion fauz pas!" Fau **x** pas. 😉 Anyway, have you considered donating the pants to Ned Flanders’ Leftorium? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hell-im-wearing-left-handed-pants/278415/23 "2004-12-07T03:36:34Z")
> [@Geobabe](#): > > Once upon a time, all women’s clothing fastened left-handed–I’ve seen several theories as to why, one being that women used to use buttonhooks to fasten buttons, using the right hand to draw it through the buttonhole, but I’m not sure whether anyone knows for sure–and for some reason, in recent times, women’s pants have changed to the right-handed fly but shirts have largely remained left-handed. No clue why that is. The only explanation I’ve seen is that it dates to the time when women of nobility were all dressed by their servants who, being mostly right-handed, would be able to button the lady up using their favored hand. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hell-im-wearing-left-handed-pants/278415/24 "2004-12-07T03:42:11Z")
Clearly, **Crayons** , the only solution left for you is to become left-handed… ---
**Author:** ![catsix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@catsix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/catsix)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hell-im-wearing-left-handed-pants/278415/25 "2004-12-07T04:02:50Z")
My left-handed cousin taught me how to crochet, and I am right-handed. I sat directly in front of her and copied exactly what she did. Stuff I make looks like the mirror image of what she makes. ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hell-im-wearing-left-handed-pants/278415/26 "2004-12-07T04:08:41Z")
> [@Eats\_Crayons](#): > > Getting dressed in the morning, I went to zip up and… 😕… What is _this_? I know not how to zip with my left hand. And buttoning a fly – backwards? I’m more confused that you have a pair of pants with both a zip and a button fly … perhaps it has flies fore and aft, and you just have them on backwards? ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hell-im-wearing-left-handed-pants/278415/27 "2004-12-07T10:18:36Z")
I can understand how the button on a pair of pants can be left handed but how can a \*\*\*zipper \*\*\*be? What am I not getting here? ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hell-im-wearing-left-handed-pants/278415/28 "2004-12-07T10:37:02Z")
Half my pants are differently zippered. Maybe that means I’m ambilegstrous. ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hell-im-wearing-left-handed-pants/278415/29 "2004-12-07T13:02:42Z")
> [@umop ap!sdn](#): > > Fau **x** pas. 😉 Just a typo I’m afraid, due to the smallness of my laptop keyboard. Moi, certainement je connais comment épeller “faux pas”. You can always tell which computer I’m using by the number of typos. Though I do know a lawyer who likes to pronounce it “fox pass”. **AndrewT** – the buttons at the top of the fly. In the case of these weirdo pants there are two buttons at the top. **Aesiron** - dude, just look at your pants. The seams are cut so that the zipper is discreetly covered by material, kinda like a pocket only big enough for your fingers to pinch the zipper’s tab. That little crevice is usally designed so you can access the zipper from the right. No so with the mutant pants. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hell-im-wearing-left-handed-pants/278415/30 "2004-12-07T13:06:44Z")
Ah. I wasn’t thinking about the flap at all and was just thinking about the zipper itself. Makes sense now. ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hell-im-wearing-left-handed-pants/278415/31 "2004-12-07T13:18:48Z")
> [@Aesiron](#): > > Ah. I wasn’t thinking about the flap at all and was just thinking about the zipper itself. Makes sense now. Well, you could be like those cool kids who cut the flap off so you can see the ziiper. I guess it’s supposed to be sexy – rrrowr! I’m ready for action… Either left _or_ right handed! _cue music – boom chicka wow wow…_ ---
**Author:** ![booklover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@booklover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/booklover)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2004, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hell-im-wearing-left-handed-pants/278415/32 "2004-12-07T14:25:07Z")
I’ve got a pair of lefty pants that I’m wearing right now (made in El Salvador, not Taiwan). They’re great pants except for the confusion when I put them on. I was discussing this with my co-workers when I first realized these pants were abnormal and they asked me whether the pants were men’s pants, but I know they’re women’s because my hips are way too womanly to fit in men’s pants. Maybe we should write to the manufacturers…mine are Sag Harbor. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-hell-im-wearing-left-handed-pants/278415.md?page=1)