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That would fit nicely with the beginning of left-hand buttoning, but wouldn't have buttons in leather bustiers back, which were used as early as the 1810s, put the point across much more obviously? Moreover, the late 19th century happened to be the very time when women started to think about such things as emancipation and leather bustiers equality. One of the means they used was the adoption of features of male dress. If left-hand buttons had symbolised female inferiority, it would probably have been given up quite early. This relatively unspectacular feature would have leather bustiers allowed even the moderately modern-minded women to express their opinion without causing a scandal. But quite contrary: The era when emancipation is first expressed in clothing (the 1849 Bloomer costume) is roughly synchronous to the era when mainly-right buttoning makes way for mainly-left. This leads me to a completely new* theory: Since female clothing took on more and more features of male clothing in order to express emancipation (a process that, I'd like to point out, most contemporaries were not aware of), it became necessary to establish a feature that signalled that an item of
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