cosymakes

many of our button stories have to do with buttons on garments or that belong to a paricular garment. there were several new ones over the weekend if you want to take a peek. and the contest is still open till midnight on wednesday, so join in!

now, i must admit that i generally don’t even notice buttons on garments. perhaps this is because most are not that exciting… but ben and i each have at least one garment with pretty fun buttons.

mine is this dress that i recently thrifted. i love the use of the blue buttons (all for style, not function) to add some shimmer. for some reason, they provide a necessary contrast to the neoness of the fabric. lord only knows why.

ben’s piece of clothing is a old thrifted dress shirt. i couldn’t find it, so i assume it is already packed… but imagine a regular white men’s short sleeved button up dress shirt with a subtle pattern of little blue flowers and you’ve got it. men’s clothing (as ben continuously complains) is boring. men’s white dress shirts get white buttons. but not this one – for some unknown reason it has little blue buttons! we both find them thrilling and it has seriously made us consider replacing the buttons on some of his other dress shrits. we probably won’t because that would be too time consuming, but you get the idea of how cool this shirt is to have that sway. and to think, we didn’t even really notice the buttons when we originally bought it!

have you ever had any project, when you found the buttons as the final step to completion, that just made you squee with joy?  you can imagine that i do it all the time with my hat creations :)  sometimes a good button is just what a hat needs.

UPDATE: ben’s shirt was in the laundry, here’s a photo.