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April 4, 1897
The Anaconda Standard
Anaconda, Deer Lodge County, Montana
What is this article about?
Article on the current fashion craze for decorative buttons in clothing, contrasting with their historical development from ornamental use in the 14th century to mass production in 18th-century Birmingham.
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Craze for Buttons.
A button wave is passing over the country. We are the slave of the button in all its developments, and just now its developments are rather beautiful. Diamond, paste, gems and buttons of cameo are adorning our laces and boleros and fastening back the lapels of our tea jackets and evening bodices. Coral buttons are lovely for black velvet blouses and fancy coats.
Apropos of buttons, it may be said that 200 years ago not so many could be found in all the world as in one little haberdasher's shop to-day. Toward the middle of the eighteenth century the famous Soho works in Birmingham were opened for the manufacture of steel buttons, and on the accession of George III, buttons of gilt became all the rage. In the fourteenth century, 'tis true, buttons were used as ornaments. But it had occurred to no one that buttonholes were a useful addenda. To the Romans, who swathed their persons with yards and yards of material, the button was an unknown quantity.
A button wave is passing over the country. We are the slave of the button in all its developments, and just now its developments are rather beautiful. Diamond, paste, gems and buttons of cameo are adorning our laces and boleros and fastening back the lapels of our tea jackets and evening bodices. Coral buttons are lovely for black velvet blouses and fancy coats.
Apropos of buttons, it may be said that 200 years ago not so many could be found in all the world as in one little haberdasher's shop to-day. Toward the middle of the eighteenth century the famous Soho works in Birmingham were opened for the manufacture of steel buttons, and on the accession of George III, buttons of gilt became all the rage. In the fourteenth century, 'tis true, buttons were used as ornaments. But it had occurred to no one that buttonholes were a useful addenda. To the Romans, who swathed their persons with yards and yards of material, the button was an unknown quantity.
What sub-type of article is it?
Curiosity
Historical Event
What themes does it cover?
Social Manners
What keywords are associated?
Button Craze
Fashion Trends
Historical Buttons
Birmingham Manufacture
George Iii
What entities or persons were involved?
George Iii
Where did it happen?
Birmingham
Story Details
Key Persons
George Iii
Location
Birmingham
Event Date
Middle Of The Eighteenth Century
Story Details
Contemporary fashion trend features elaborate buttons on garments; historically, buttons evolved from 14th-century ornaments without holes, to 18th-century steel and gilt production in Birmingham's Soho works.