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Index
Cover
Contents
About the Book
About the Author
Also by Lynn Knight
Dedication
Title Page
Preface: Family Buttons and Vintage Finds
1. The Jet Button: From Mourning to Glamour
2. The Blackcurrant Button: Elementary Sewing and the White-Blouse Revolution
‘The Lasses’ Resolution to Follow the Fashion’
3. Girls Rule OK: The Purple, White and Green
4. The Silver Thimble: The First World War and Munitionettes
5. The Shoe Button: Bachelor Girls Stride Ahead
Independent Living in the 1920s
6. The Mackintosh Button: Derring-Do and Fantasy Photographs
7. The Linen Button: Small Miracles on Small Means
A 1930s Button-Making Machine
8. The Baby’s Button: ‘Pray Let partiuclare care be taken’en off this Child’
9. Eva’s Glove Button: Model Gowns and Inexpensive Dress
10. The Interwar Fashion Button: Tennis and Afternoon Tea
11. The Edge-to-Edge Clasp: Kissproof Lipstick and Ginger Rogers Frocks
Instructions from Miss Towsey, Draper
12. The Twinkling Button: Stitch in the Chic
13. The Blue Slide Buckle: A Paintbox of Summer Colour
Buttons and How to Make Them
14. The Silver-and-Blue Button: Good Little Suits in Wartime
The Women’s Land Army: Uniform
15. The Land Army Button: Uniforms Not Uniformity
16. The Velvet Flowers: Hats
17. The Coat Button: Post-War and the New Look
Woman’s Clothing Budget
18. The Small, Drab Button: Office Life in the 1950s
19. The ‘Perfect’ Button: The Etiquette of Dress
20. The Doll’s-House Doorknob: Homemaking Large and Small
21. The Ladybird Button: Childhood
22. Suspenders: Corsetry, Scanties (& Sex)
23. The Apron Button: Domesticity
Buttonholes Step-by-Step
24. The Diamanté Clasp: A Little Razzle Dazzle
25. The Toggle: God, This Modern Youth!
26. The Turquoise Button: The New Kind of Woman
27. The Statement Button: Biba and the Hankering for Vintage
Clothing Prices: 1970–79
28. Pearl Buttons: Full Circle
Notes
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Copyright
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