You can change an outfit in a second with vintage buttons. They can have just the same effect as a lovely scarf and for half the price.
I’ve changed buttons on jackets, blouses and cardigans for years and have a number of different styles of black cardigans that come out each winter with different buttons on them.
You can purchasee vintage buttons on ebay or my favourite shop is Duttons for Buttons in Harrogate, which has a stock of over 12,000 buttons, they also do a mail order service.
I have also bought a cardigan in a charity shop for the buttons and put some others on it then given it back to the charity shop.
My jackets buttons change every year. This year the skin look was big and I got a number of different styles in it from a company on EBay and Vinted.
Plain coloured blouses, in particular white or black, can look so different with a lovely button on it even if you only change the top button and the sleeve buttons.
I’ve even changed a few buttons on my husbands shirts to give them a new look.
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How right you are such an inexpensive way to update an outfit x
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I bet you’ve found some buttons already bda :)x
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I have a few sitting in a jar waiting for a new life lol
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You can get hundreds really cheap on ebay 🙂
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I will have a look, I don’t use ebay much because postage to Ireland is usually ridiculous x
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That is such a good idea! I had a bag once with lots of bright buttons sewn onto it! It was lovely….I might go and do that to a handbag!!!!xxxxx
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Yes, buttons are fashionable this year on just about everything, even lamp shades. Do take a picture when you have finished it 🙂 x
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Brings to mind my grandmothers bag of buttons I loved to take them out and sort them and resort them. Vintage buttons have long been a stable of a advide sewer xxx
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Ah, that’s nice – I hope you kept them 🙂 x
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A lot of them but over the years they have been given away as we moved around xx
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Quite right. Silver buttons on a jacket as a young fellow – flashed up that jacket. Remember the ones in the 60’s – no collars?
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Oh, yes I remember those ‘JUST’ 🙂
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Also, if you can’t find the right thing, you can make your own with the apprpriate coloured fabric, which is what I did when I made my wedding dress.
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Oh gosh you are clever l, making your own buttons for your wedding dress. Did you make your own wedding dress then? Sounds wonderful :)x
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Yes I did. Forgot to mention that 😀 I made three wedding dresses, two evening dresses and lots of curtains in my time. i am about to post a picture of the tea cosy as promised.
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WOW, so you obviously love sewing as well l, not just a pretty face then :):)
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Well, no one would say that, lol 😀
Check out my post from a few days ago for some pics.
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i’ve seen them and written a blog about your fab tea cosy 🙂
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