Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1914 — Jeweled Buttons. [ARTICLE]

Jeweled Buttons.

The buttons are important items in the making of a waistcoat, for they may transform the most commonplace garment into a lovely creation. Women who spare no expense- in getting effects in their clothes are displaying the jeweled buttons —in rare cases inset with genuine stones, though generally of the semi-precious variety—others are eagerly seeking the old paste buttons, worn by the gentry of the past, and ’the hand-painted buttons sometimes the work «1 artiste who left lasting reputations to posterity. Fur buttons have also been adopted, and the effect is decidedly- good when the fur matches the collarette or trimming of the costume.