Buttonhooks and Shoehorns (Shire Library): No. 122

by SueBrandon (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  1998

  $6.85

  The everyday need for a buttonhook began in the early nineteenth century when it was used, as an accessory to masculine fashion, to fasten stiff leather button-boots. By the 1880s, lines of buttons had become fashionable on ladies' gloves, clothing and footwear. This book describes a variety of sizes, shapes and materials for fashion buttonhooks.