13 Dec 2010

Buttons

One of the amazing things with vintage dresses and blouses from Japan (70's, 80's) is the variety of buttons. 
I can't stop wondering if every button has really been designed and crafted just for this dress. The details, and the finishing (especially when they combine metal and stone / plastic parts) keep surprising me. 


I recently came across a place "recycling" buttons from old, damaged (Japanese) dresses. It reminded me of how old people used to keep and re-use the metal boxes. I bought some, and many still had bunches of thread, or event fabric stripes in their holes. 

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