Tag: buttons

SHOP FOR YOUR FAVOURITE DESIGNERS…

Clothes Vintage

The website ‘shop it to me’, http://www.shopittome.co.uk is an online site where you sign up and tell them your favourite designers. You will then get a personalised email alerts telling you of sales, VIP events and secret promotion codes.

It searches for sales items on more than 480 top brands, from high end designers like Chloe and Marc Jacobs to popular high street branches like M&S and Gap.

You can specify your favourite brands, your size and what you are looking for, and then it only alerts you when some relevant items go on sale.

BUTTON UP YOUR CLOTHES…

duttons

The easiest way to update or create a vintage style on your clothes is to revamp them with some new buttons.

Duttons for Buttons has more than 12,000 designs to choose from, the largest selection in the United Kingdom.

They have buttons from around the world, including children’s, diamante, wooden, mother-of-pearl, leather, enamel, glass, Swarovski and metal buttons.

They will even post you a selection in case your not sure of the size. Just pick the one you want, return the rest, and then they will send you as many as you need.

This service only costs £2.99 (plus return postage) so a new look for your outfit for under £5 could be easily achieved.

BUTTONS AS A CHANGE OF OUTFIT…

 

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.

Source: Duttons EBay