Diana Epstein and How She Bought a Shop Full of Buttons
Hello I am Alix from Bigbluebed . Pleased to meet you. This is my first Button Floozie post. ‘Hmm, what shall I write?’ I pondered. And then I remembered a little book that I recently bought at a Second Hand Book Shop in Chichester. It is this book ‘Buttons’ by Diana Epstein, published in London by Studio Vista in 1968. Now I like buttons. I think you know what I mean – filled with glee when finding a pot of buttons in a charity shop, gasps of delight when finding antique buttons, having fun sorting plain plastic buttons into colour. So finding this book was wonderful. Do you do that thing – put a wonderful new purchase away for a bit as you are too excited and too busy to devote the time to spend on it now? I do and so it was only recently that I took time to read the book. And I still haven’t really. I have just dipped into it with great pleasure. In the book buttons are looked at chronologically, so it covers early buttons through, 18th century, and 19th century up to moder...