6.03.2018

Isaac Mizrahi 2: How the button changed fashion


Isaac Mizrahi at Small Thing Big Idea How the button changed fashion (transcript)
Summary
According to this story, buttons were decorative for 3,000 years. It means to have the design performance. 1) It's higher than the zipper and the velcro.
When someone invented the buttonhole, buttons were suddenly useful. 2) By putting the button and the buttonhole, it makes your clothes never open and fit your body.
The zipper breaks easily and the velcro makes a lot of noise. If a button falls off, you just only sew on again soon. 3)
Those histories are the answers how the button changed fashion.

The speaker tells us one more key point. There are no bad buttons. It means that I'm a bad person for buttons. It's because I often think that the clothes don't have buttons when I see the clothes. I didn't like those buttons and I tried changing them to a zipper or other buttons often. Buttons are expensive because I have to buy five or six buttons for one dress, but it needs one zipper if I choose the zipper. I failed to put buttonholes often. It's too big and too small to fasten with. For me, It's easy to sew zippers more than buttons.
I'm now having a box of many buttons that were taken down from my clothes.

Words in this story
decorative /adj/  ornamental
endure /verb/  lasting, continue, bear

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