[Oxford63] quilt exhibit

Thu Aug 22 19:06:01 MDT 2019

Ha ha ... me too, I have a tin with buttons that my mom had. I'm sure it
has buttons from her mom, and from her Aunt Alys. I always loved rummaging
through those buttons ... still do every once in awhile. I gave some to a
hippy friend of mine who made great earrings out of them. Hmmm, guess I
will have to pull them out for granddaughter Maya next time she is here.
😊💕 Debbie E

On Thu, Aug 22, 2019, 7:37 PM Jane M. Hill via oxford63 <
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> When I got to Athens for my freshman year of college, there was just
> barely the introduction of ready-made clothes. Until then, everyone sewed
> their own or went to a seamstress or tailor. The only such store I found
> back then (very near the Syntagma Square) had a couple racks of skirts -
> all one size. The idea was that you picked the skirt, and then the store
> would size it for you by re-sewing! Of course, Greece quickly became very
> chichi, but in 1963 it was still recovering from WWII and the Civil War
> thereafter.
>
> Which brings me to buttons... Not far from that clothing store, on one of
> the streets that ran into Syntagma Square, there was a block of small
> stores that *only* sold buttons - or at least that's all that was ever
> displayed in the modest windows. Hard to imagine how they made a go of it!
> Today, the shops have been replaced with souvenir stores and the like.
>
> I too have a small, lidded bowl from my grandmother with buttons. Are we
> pack rats? Should we purge them?
>
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> On 8/22/2019 4:02 PM, HARALD BORDEWIECK via oxford63 wrote:
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> We actually had an interesting conversation with the museum security guard
> about a tiny store in NYC that sold only buttons of every imaginable kind.
> I don't know if it's still there--he thought near Lexington Ave.
> When we spent a year in Albany, NY while I was in grad school, we came
> across a store in the city of Albany that sold hand-made aprons, $4 each!
> I still have one, but I doubt the store still exists.
> It's fun to think about all these by-gone, cherished items and how they
> may still be useful in new ways.  Hurray for button jars!
> Alana
> On Thursday, August 22, 2019, 4:09:03 PM EDT, Barbara via oxford63
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> Thank you everyone who saw the exhibit and the nice comments. I have my
> mother's and my mother-in-law's buttons. As I do use them in my work, they
> are now separated into colors. Not as much fun as going through the button
> jar but a lot easier.I  also have my mother's and grandmother's linens and
> my mother-in-law's aprons. The younger generation take their clothes to the
> cleaners or alterations to get a button replaced. Really! I did send my
> boys off to college knowing how to sew buttons and iron a shirt. Not so
> sure that my grandkids in college can do that.
>
>
> Barbara Rucket
> Brucket at aol.com
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> What a memory jog you've given me, Alana and Barbara-via-Alana.   Same for
> me with the "button box" or "button jar" collections.  Mother would
> sometimes let us string buttons to wear as necklaces -- she had her
> mother's collection and was adding to it of course.   We would rummage for
> the larger, brighter or shinier ones 😊, and sometimes could remember or
> would be told their origins.   Buttons seemed endless and eternal.   I now
> find I save those "special" ones that come in small envelopes with a
> special piece of clothing.   And just last week was explaining to youngest
> granddaughter (7) why her blouse had two extra buttons sewn on the inside,
> bottom, of the placket.   She was thinking they were irritating or messy
> and was going to snip them off -- well, ok, but don't snip the blouse,
> please.   And we can put them in the button box!
>
> love to all of us and all the generations.
>    Judy P.
>
> On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 3:19 PM HARALD BORDEWIECK via oxford63 <
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> Barbara!
>  We just came back from the exhibit at the Mandell JCC.  It was wonderful
> so varied in design, color, origin and information.   I noticed in several
> pieces, including yours, the use of buttons.  In helping to clean out many
> of my family's homes, I always found a jar of buttons--what stories they
> might tell from the waste not want not generation.
> Thank you for sharing your art with us!
> Alana
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