?Have You Ever Noticed..? ? ?

Both my husband and I put on T shirts head first. I pull a T shirt or sweater off with arms crossed in front like you JackyB and my husband thinks my method is illogical! He laughs if I get stuck ( as sometimes - now I am less flexible- I do!).
I'm sure I would have dressed myself from a young age ( I had a twin - and a slightly younger sibling- so Mum would I am sure have encouraged independent dressing as early as possible! My husband had several older siblings to assist with undressing- and uses the pull at the back neck and pull method.
Young children have relatively short arm bones (relative to trunk and head length) so the age at which independent dressing is attained may affect method perhaps? I'm not sure which 'putting on' method ( arms fist or head first) is easier for short armed unassisted toddlers?
Interesting thread!

Back in the 70s, when I was still in my twenties and working in an office, one warm day I took my jumper off the usual way, arms crossed over and jumper pulled up and over. An older colleague stared at me and then stood for about 5 minutes, trying to reproduce the procedure in a strange pantomime. I still don't know why he was so baffled - he was married with 2 grown up daughters; he must have seen it before.

Should I be worried! I definitely put my arms in first and then my head, this way it does not mess my hair up, take it off the same arms first. Never though about it before. Oftenthought why don't I take hours to get ready when going out, make up on max. 10 minutes, clothes decided beforehand, always ready before everyone especially my late husband, who knows how I could have looked if I had taken more time over it. On a girls holiday, I'm the one with a very small suitcase with a small Choice if outfits, as have a back problem, my friends very often had to pay excess but always looked very nice with changes of clothes I couldn't do.

I do arms first !

Perhaps women don't do the arms first in order to keep their make-up un-smudged.

I’m an arms first kind of lady! My husband always pulls tops off from the back of his neck and then over his head. Very strange to me.

What annoys me is the way they take them off by pulling the neck over their heads before taking their arms out! It’s disastrous because the neck ends up miss-shapen and torn!

Oh yes please Esspee! Go for it, I’ll join in!

FannyCornforth

Allsorts

I will have to do a lot of research on the subject.

I may have found the subject of my (mythical) PhD!

Fanny. My mythical PhD is on the causes of transient deafness in the young and the relationship to weather patterns and ventilation.

(Why, when the sun shines do young people have to put their car stereo on full volume with the windows open? ?)

It’s reassuring to know other people have mythical PhD aspirations. Do you think it is worth starting a thread to see if there are more of us out there?

Sleeves first for me though I do take a jumper or t-shirt off by crossing my arms whereas men tend to grab it at the back of the neck and pull.
Strange I’ve never thought about that before. Surely it is simply how you have been taught to do it?

I think it’s because girls dress themselves from an earlier age. Little boys are told ‘arms up’ by their mums, who dress them for longer

Change it Shizam !
It's good for your brain to get out of its rut.

Left arm, right arm, then head for putting on top. Same drill for removing. I’m female and left-handed. But put a coat on right arm first. Also put right shoe and sock on first. This is doing my head in! Why has my brain decided on this regime?!

You can protect your hairdo if you put it over your head first. Something lots of men don't worry about.

My husband puts a t-shirt over his head first and pulls it right down. Then puts his arms through the sleeves in such a way as to stretch the t-shirt beyond all recognition ?

It's women not wzntibg to mess up their hair or get makeup on the top. Stretch the neck, pull it over head, then sleeves.

I put my arms in the sleeves and then pull the t-shirt or jumper over my head. Never noticed whether or not I was different from other ladies.

I am too Elegran

I put my arms in first.
When wearing make up I than have my hands free to hold the T-shirt away from my face slipping it over my head.
To me it's alien putting the head through first. I would feel so restricted with my arms pinned down.
Maybe it is a british thing? I have to ask my non british friends lol.

I've literally just asked my husband to take his t-shirt off and tell me how he puts it on...lol. Oh and he did pull it up from the back to take it off too .

Both me and him do arms first for t-shirts etc . But I cross arms to take top off.

Oh and bras I do up at the back ?

I was taught as a child to put tee-shirts and jumpers on by putting my head through first and my arms second, as you describe, because my mother and grandmothers insisted it messed one's hair up less, then the way boys and men do.

It may not be universal that there is a female and a male way of doing this, but I think in all of Europe we dress like this.

Men make a dreadful fuss about their shirt buttons being in direct alignment with their trouser button or belt buckle, which few women bother about, and have rules about what colour socks they can wear with suits.

Whereas a woman in jeans or trouser suit usually either wears nylons socks in the same shade as her stockings would be if she was wearing a skirt, or just grabs the nearest clean pair of socks.

And while we are at it, men unbutton the top two or three buttons of a shirt and drag it over their heads when undressing, whereas we careful unbutton the whole garment and take if of by withdrawing our arms from the sleeves first.

And women take their socks of first when undressing, while many men take them off last. Some even attempt to get into bed with you still wearing their socks, unless like me you point out that this is very off-putting!

I think I must be a man ?. I do arms first then head. But I don’t care about messy hair as with lots of curls it’s messy anyway.

Arms in first every time for me putting garments on. But taking them, off I extricate my arms first, then pull it over my head. Crossing arms leaves the garment inside out and also risks under garments riding up with it and exposing one's midriff!

Do you know I’ve never noticed, it’s something I’ve never thought about! But…. I’m off to get a T-shirt for my husband to put on , ??

FC and Oldbat1 are spot on,all the men in my family do exactly what they said,we humans are very strange.
Now i wonder if transgenders change the way they have always dressed ?.