8.25″ Dressmaker shears (Left-handed)

Think back to your school days. If you were left-handed, you may recall wondering why you couldn’t use the same scissors as most of the other kids. The scissors all looked the same, so what was the difference?

When you use a pair of scissors or shears, your hand should squeeze the blades together, at the same time as closing them vertically. This lateral squeeze (which the hand applies naturally) means the edges of the blades are pressed together closely, enabling their bypass cutting action. So, when a right-handed pair of scissors is used in a left hand, the hand will tend to squeeze the blades away from one another, resulting in a wide, messy cut.

Left-handed scissors and shears are made as mechanical mirror images of their right-handed counterparts, so that the blades can be pushed together by the user’s hand in a natural cutting motion. Some left-handed folk have some success in making right-handed scissors or shears work in their hand, by cleverly adjusting their technique. However, the right long-term solution for comfortable, accurate cutting is to choose left-handed dressmaker shears or tailor shears made specifically for left-handed use.