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How to engage the slide show:
click on the first image on the left of the gallery below, then select the arrow at the bottom left of the enlarged image. Or you can manually go to the next slide by hovering your cursor on the middle right side then clicking the arrow that appears. Hover your cursor on the middle left side then click the arrow that appears to go backwards. Close the slide show or manual show by clicking the X button on the lower right of the image. (The image of each item is followed by an image of that item's back or reverse side.)
Acknowledgments, References and information for this category are at the bottom of this page.
Button Country
An Educational Resource for Button Collectors - originally created by Paul Rice
Copyright © 2012 All Rights Reserved. Website redesigned and Maintained by Deborah Hanson
Div. IV Section 5 : Costume Trimmings
To download and print a pdf of the history and information about Costume Trimmings click here.
Some descriptions of these items may be cut off. Full descriptions can be seen in the slide show mode.
Acknowledgements: Thanks to those collaborators who made examples from their collections available for the images shown on this pages. They include Barbara Barrans, Lou Yeargain, Lynn Kulikowski, Adrienne Bennett, Susannah Jordan, Sharon Braund, Pat Koehler, Janet Gerhardt, Petra Williams, Jeff Lee, and Marcia Hoel. Special thanks to Jane Perry, author of A Collectors Guide to Peasant Silver Buttons for images and input related to the button/trim shown on linked pages. Others who contributed reviews, comments and support included Elizabeth Hughes, Gary Brockman, Pat Fields, Anne Guba, Kevin Kinne, Karen Farnsworth, Joanne Fournier, Ronnie Wexler, Tami Hacker, Vickie Roberts, Willa Mercer, and Gwen Niemisto.
A special thanks to Joan Lindsay & Joy Journeay for their expert editing skills!
References:
(1) National Button Society Blue Book - Official NBS Classification and Competition Guidelines
(2) The Big Book of Buttons by Elizabeth Hughes and Marion Lester. Boyertown, PA: Boyertown Publishing Company, 1981
(3) The New York Metropolitan Museum of Art