# Which way do you dress? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 17, 2001, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-way-do-you-dress/76673 "2001-08-17T02:01:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dave\_Stewart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@Dave\_Stewart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dave_Stewart)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-way-do-you-dress/76673/1 "2001-08-17T02:01:45Z")
…a polite way of asking which way your apparatus falls in your trousers. Is it evenly spread, so to speak, across the population? Or do more men dress left then right, right than left? Is there a correlation to left-handedism, eg. if you’re left handed, do you dress to the right? If enough men post a response we should have a decent sample population and can begin to draw some conclusions. I will begin. I am right handed and I dress…(checking)…to the right. ---
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-way-do-you-dress/76673/2 "2001-08-17T02:06:00Z")
I wear a kilt so I guess I can’t play. Mind you, I am ambidextrous. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-way-do-you-dress/76673/3 "2001-08-17T05:18:12Z")
Which way do I dress? Being gay, I dress perfectly. What? Oh. Really, my pants usually are not tight enough to dress in a particular direction but when they are it seems to be 50/50. Once, one half of my equipment decided to dress left and the other half to dress right, which was extremely painful, especially when I sat down. ---
**Author:** ![kylen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed655f/32.png) [@kylen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kylen)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-way-do-you-dress/76673/4 "2001-08-17T05:19:49Z")
Lefty, in all senses. As are most of my friends, if I recall the results of our poll on the subject. ---
**Author:** ![23skidoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/f04885/32.png) [@23skidoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/23skidoo)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-way-do-you-dress/76673/5 "2001-08-17T06:17:11Z")
Which way do you dress? Never heard that one, always heard it as “Which side do you favor?” or “He favors the left, he favors the right.” ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-way-do-you-dress/76673/6 "2001-08-17T12:57:17Z")
I usually dress from a state near-nakedness to a state of being fully covered by clothing. Unless I’m drunk or just very, very confused due to lack of sleep. ---
**Author:** ![FallenAngel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@FallenAngel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FallenAngel)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2001, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-way-do-you-dress/76673/7 "2001-08-17T22:16:15Z")
If you’re facing me, I prefer it to be in the 12 o’clock position, but it normally ends up closer to 1. ---
**Author:** ![Gunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gunslinger)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2001, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-way-do-you-dress/76673/8 "2001-08-18T03:47:01Z")
Left. ---
**Author:** ![dentarthurdent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@dentarthurdent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dentarthurdent)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2001, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-way-do-you-dress/76673/9 "2001-08-18T03:54:34Z")
to the right. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2001, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-way-do-you-dress/76673/10 "2001-08-18T04:14:27Z")
I’m right-handed and I always aim it right. But left on its own it would tend to the left. I started moving it right thinking someday it would become centered. For the same reason: my right arm is naturally stronger, so I’ve always carried heavy stuff mostly with my left arm, hoping to even them up. I just love symmetry. ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2001, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-way-do-you-dress/76673/11 "2001-08-18T04:27:02Z")
I don’t. (my ass is getting clammy after sitting in this chair for a few hours) ---
**Author:** ![Medea\_s\_Child](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Medea\_s\_Child](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Medea_s_Child)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2001, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-way-do-you-dress/76673/12 "2001-08-18T04:33:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dr. Schadenfreude \* > \*\*I wear a kilt so I guess I can’t play. Mind you, I am ambidextrous. \*\* I want pictures. Now. Please. (guys in kilts are hot.) I will beg. ---
**Author:** ![11811](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/9d8465/32.png) [@11811](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/11811)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2001, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-way-do-you-dress/76673/13 "2001-08-19T02:19:44Z")
I think it might have as much to do with which nut hangs lower as it does with right- or left-handedness. My understanding (I think from anatomy/physiology class) was that the left is lower on most guys. I also remember reading the same thing in a men’s magazine (maybe Esquire). I am right-handed. Everything else goes left. ---
**Author:** ![Odieman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a87d85/32.png) [@Odieman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odieman)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2001, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-way-do-you-dress/76673/14 "2001-08-19T02:20:57Z")
I dress right. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2001, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-way-do-you-dress/76673/15 "2001-08-19T07:16:51Z")
backwards. Kris Kros RULEZ!!! ---
**Author:** ![sewalk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@sewalk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sewalk)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2001, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-way-do-you-dress/76673/16 "2001-08-20T12:45:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by 23skidoo \* > \*\*Which way do you dress? Never heard that one, always heard it as “Which side do you favor?” or “He favors the left, he favors the right.” \*\* “Dress Left or Dress Right?” is pretty old, going by West Point lore. Cadets, when being fitted for dress uniforms, were asked this question for decades. This became quite an issue in 1976\*. \*If you can’t figure out what happened in 1976, I’m not gonna tell you. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2001, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-way-do-you-dress/76673/17 "2001-08-20T13:33:31Z")
Centered and vertically oriented. No. Bikini undies with good elastic. ---
**Author:** ![sewalk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@sewalk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sewalk)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2001, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-way-do-you-dress/76673/18 "2001-08-20T18:08:18Z")
Oh, OK, I’ll tell you. Cadets with nothing to dress were admitted for the first time.