I have clothing with buttons and zippers that are "backwards" (online tailors will do either way). There's not a huge difference one way or the other, so I don

I have clothing with buttons and zippers that are "backwards" (online tailors will do either way). There's not a huge difference one way or the other, so I don't really buy into the notion that it was done because servants buttoned your clothing. Proponents of this theory leave out the fact that wealthy men had valets up until very recently. Yet valets had no apparent issues buttoning their masters. If this were a class symbol, men would engage in it as well. If it had a reason, it was probably to distinguish "men's" clothing from "women's".