It's So Fifties Housewife

I'm not big on sewing. If given the choice between replacing all the buttons on a coat and buying a new coat...it's a very difficult choice. However, I am a poor college student now, so off I went to buy buttons.

Why, you didn't ask? Because somehow (glancing in direction of roommate, because I don't remember slamming my coat in the closet door) one of the buttons on my heaviest* winter coat was squished into a taco-shaped disaster. And that won't do. It also has a felt-covered cap over the top, so it was broken. So I could run around with a misshapen piece of metal where my button should be, no button at all where my button should be, a completely mismatched button (because large, felt-covered buttons aren't as common as you might think), or I can replace all the buttons.

I did try to fix the button by flattening it back out and supergluing the top part back on, but since they were both bent, I couldn't get them to flatten out in the same shape. And the two parts only meet around the edge, so, yeah. It didn't work.

* Yes, I have several weight grades of winter coats. Doesn't everybody? And it's like 13 degrees out and windy, so the medium-grade winter coat wasn't cutting it on my way home tonight.

Posted by Jenelle at November 16, 2005 11:32 PM | TrackBack