Baltimore’s biggest button box is the aging but still vigorous Morton Schenk Co., the place where tailors head for elusive little circles of pearl, plastic, rhinestone, bone and metal. And let’s not ...

Jean Behringer’s house isn’t just home to a 10,000-button collection. It’s also the repository of numerous unpublished stories about buttons, clothes decorated with buttons, books about buttons old ...

The zipper has transformed everything from fashion to safety equipment. But the plans to make this intensely useful mechanism took some time to come together… We use it every day, a rather fascinating ...

Thirty years ago, Helen Vance was working in her antiques shop in Homestead, Fla., when a woman came in and asked her if she'd like to buy an old button collection the woman had inherited. “She said ...

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NuSnaps introduces a magnetic fastening system for cushions and canvas, to be unveiled at IBEX. Courtesy NuSnaps For decades, boaters have wrestled with the same problem: traditional button snaps that ...