Comments on: Hardest button to button

By: K

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:13:36 +0000

Btw, nice White Stripes reference

By: mum

mum — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:32:51 +0000

If you had been wearing the M&s shirt I gave you for your Xmas the button wouldn’t have broken. As you are now going to buy another shirt from Primark you will probably encounter this problem again – if so I do indeed have a button box – 2 in fact, I for ‘white/shirt’ and 1 for ‘coloured’ (if only the rest of my life was so organised) Sad to say your memory is showing signs of fuzzing – that box was your Gran’s not mine. Don’t worry it’s just your age………

By: Gordon

Gordon — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:34:53 +0000

Yeah they give spare buttons. Although, like K, when I do take them off I invariably lose them or forget and get shiny circles on my shirts.

My Mum’s button box was an old metal biscuit tin (pale blue?). With a golden knob on the top. Ahhh memories indeed.

By: Blue Witch

Blue Witch — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:49:07 +0000

I have a button bowl that sits on a glass shelf near a window. It looks really pretty. It’s very inviting and tactile. Visitors’ hands are often to be found just shuffling through it.

All buttons get cut off labels when we buy clothing (for the reasons K mentions) or off used clothing before we reuse or recycle it.

I suspect I am in a huge minority for people my age or less though.

Do Primark give spare buttons on their clothing?

By: K

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:28:51 +0000

Hi Ian’s Mum (and yes, hi Gordon, sorry for hijacking your comments box!),

I love tins like that! My mum still has my gran’s button box which is an old shortbread tin, must be about 60 or so years old now. If I can’t ‘borrow’ it to be my button box, i will consider buying one from an antiques shop or something. Somehow a plastic Roses box doesn’t cut it!