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...and British outerwear (Barbour jackets) have the zipper the “wrong way” because apparently, when hunting at the club - your servant tended to zip your coat up for you. Difficult for him to do so if the zipper pull is on your right.
I tried a couple of those on because I thought I would like one - but just cannot get over the difficulty to zip the darned thing up.

For the same reason - women’s shirts are buttoned from the left so that your hand maid (or whatever you called your servant) could dress you more easily.

The world is really a messed up place.