Look, I have no idea how to create and insert a poll on here, but if I did, it would ask the following:
- When you encounter an inside-out shirt, do you turn it right-side out before donning it, or do you use the act of putting it on to turn it right-side out?
- Follow-up: how would you categorize your gender identity?
I ask because I’m working on a theory, based on Alan’s look of confusion when I started to put on an inside-out shirt last week and reversed it during the act of pulling it over my head.
“Wait!” he cried. “Did you just put that shirt on inside-out?!”
I looked down at it. “No. It’s right-side out now.”
He shook his head, looking baffled. I shrugged and moved on.
But in the days since, I’ve hatched a theory, which is this: Because most women learn to put a bra on upside down and backwards, we have hyper-developed spatial logic skills, making it easy to take a reversed piece of clothing and use the act of putting it on to set it correct.
What do you think? Am I onto something here, or was Alan just sleepy? Or am I stretching too much in my celebration of #girlpower?
Now seriously, please respond to my poll.
Also: someone actually made a how-to video, though I think most ladies will agree with me that his skill-level is pretty basic. Anyone worth her salt knows that if you lead with your arms, the effect is more magical and the head-hole follows automatically. No awkward fumbling to put the arms on later like he does. Check it out:
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I’m with Alan. I turn shirts inside out before putting them on. But then I also put on a bra by basically walking forward into the cups (an arm through each strap) and then reaching behind my back to fasten it. I thought it was Mom’s signature move to put it on around her belly, then spin it 180 degrees and flip the cups and straps upright. Lest you worry, though, I have mastered the woman skill of removing a bra under my shirt and pulling it out one sleeve. So can I stay in the club?
How did we turn out so differently?! And yes – I have questions for anyone who isn’t able to whip a bra off without taking their shirt off.
I turn shirts inside out before putting them on. Never occurred to me to try the other, but I will now. On another note, when I put pillowcases on long pillows, I turn the case inside out, line it up with the pillow, and then pull it over the pillow. No fighting to get the pillow all the way inside.
Brilliant on the pillowcase… I’ll have to start that!