ABOUT BUTTONS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 June 1938, Page 4

ABOUT BUTTONS

SAFETY PIN AND WIRE HINTS. Among the innumerable odds and ends that every, woman hoards in tins and boxes lest some day they might come in useful, there is bound to be a great variety of buttons of all shapes and sizes and colours. There is no knowing when some or other of them will prove to be just the thing to add finish to a new garment or to lend a fresh, new charm to an old one. Often the job of assembling a set of the buttons required becomes a tedious one, if you keep your buttons bundled together loose in a box. And even if you are orderly and go to the trouble of tying or stringing buttons of a kind together on a thread, the untying and tying up again of the bundles is a nuisance.

Here then is a small hint that will save you a great deal of bother: Assemble your small buttons on large safety-pins. Then you will have them all neatly filed away in rows, selection will be easy, and it will be a simple matter to slip off as many as you require and to fasten the others safely together again on their pin. And for the larger buttons, use scraps of wire of appropriate lengths; bend them into rings, having made a hook at each end of each length of wire to serve as a catch. You have no doubt seen rings of this kind used to keep small brass safety-pins together.