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<font face="Calibri">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</font><font
face="Calibri"> then</font><font face="Calibri"><font
face="Calibri"><font face="Calibri"> (very near the Syntagma
Square)</font></font> 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.<br>
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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 <i>only</i> 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.<br>
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I too have a small, lidded bowl from my grandmother with buttons.
Are we pack rats? Should we purge them?<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/22/2019 4:02 PM, HARALD BORDEWIECK
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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">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
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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">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. <br>
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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">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!<br>
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<div>Thank you ever<font size="2">yone 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
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style="font-size:small;">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
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and all the generations.</div>
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<div dir="ltr"> 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
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