<div dir="auto">Ha ha ... me too, I have a tin with buttons that my mom had. I&#39;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. ðŸ˜ŠðŸ’• Debbie E</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Aug 22, 2019, 7:37 PM Jane M. Hill via oxford63 &lt;<a href="mailto:oxford63@mailman.cyber-community.com">oxford63@mailman.cyber-community.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
  
    
  
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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&#39;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 dir="ltr">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&#39;t know if it&#39;s still there--he thought near
          Lexington Ave.  <br>
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        <div dir="ltr">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">It&#39;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 dir="ltr">Alana<br>
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          <div> On Thursday, August 22, 2019, 4:09:03 PM EDT, Barbara
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                  <div>Thank you ever<font size="2">yone who saw the
                      exhibit and the nice comments. I have my mother&#39;s
                      and my mother-in-law&#39;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&#39;s and
                      grandmother&#39;s linens and my mother-in-law&#39;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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                  <div style="clear:both">Barbara Rucket<br clear="none">
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                    To: HARALD BORDEWIECK <a class="m_2444193431967546787moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:hbordewieck@snet.net" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">&lt;hbordewieck@snet.net&gt;</a>;
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                    Subject: Re: [Oxford63] quilt exhibit<br clear="none">
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                            <div class="m_2444193431967546787yiv2465655587gmail_default" style="font-size:small">What a memory jog
                              you&#39;ve given me, Alana and
                              Barbara-via-Alana.  Â Same for me with the
                              &quot;button box&quot; or &quot;button jar&quot; collections. 
                              Mother would sometimes let us string
                              buttons to wear as necklaces -- she had
                              her mother&#39;s collection and was adding to
                              it of course.  Â We would rummage for the
                              larger, brighter or shinier ones 😊, and
                              sometimes could remember or would be told
                              their origins.  Â Buttons seemed endless
                              and eternal.  Â I now find I save those
                              &quot;special&quot; ones that come in small
                              envelopes with a special piece of
                              clothing.  Â 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. 
                              Â She was thinking they were irritating or
                              messy and was going to snip them off --
                              well, ok, but don&#39;t snip the blouse,
                              please.  Â And we can put them in the
                              button box!</div>
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                              and all the generations.</div>
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                                    <div dir="ltr">Barbara!</div>
                                    <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. Â  I noticed in
                                      several pieces, including yours,
                                      the use of buttons.  In helping to
                                      clean out many of my family&#39;s
                                      homes, I always found a jar of
                                      buttons--what stories they might
                                      tell from the waste not want not
                                      generation.</div>
                                    <div dir="ltr">Thank you for sharing
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                                      <div>Alana  </div>
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