Button Fad.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XL, Issue 11, 14 March 1908, Page 67

Button Fad.

Fashion’s latest fad is a eraze for buttons. It seems to appeal as much to the vanity of the mere male to adorn himself with buttons as to the more volatile womankind. Waistcoat buttons, each painted separately by wellknow miniature painters, and framed in silver or gold, sometimes cost as much as 100 dol. apiece, and make the garment on which they are worn a sort of picture gallery “in petto.” Women have taken up the craze with their usual whole-heartedness for the follies of the moment, and now at some of the fashionable dressmakers it has become as much an article of faith to have suitable buttons for various costumes as it used to be to find suitable trimmings, laces, and braids. The idea is said to have been started by a young society girl, who, as a gift to a friend, sent a set of buttons she herself had pa nted. © © ©