Button
A button can have three meanings.
- A button is a fastener that keeps your shirt or pants closed.
- A button is something that sticks up from a flat surface, and when you push it, it makes something happen.
- A button is a picture on a computer monitor that is pressed with a computer mouse to make the computer do something.
Button Media
Brass buttons from the uniform of a Danish World War I artillery lieutenant
Modern buttons made from vegetable ivory
Spanish button (approx. 12 mm) from ca. 1650–1675
a doublet, a close fitting men's jacket worn in the Renaissance
Silk buttons on a late 16th century jerkin from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute
Button stamping machine at the Henri Jamorski Button Factory in Paris, 1919
Three plastic sew-through buttons (left) and one shank, fabric-covered button (right)
An assorti of shank buttons
Plastic studs for bedclothes
A picture of three shirt studs (from left to right): a sliding pin style in red glass, a screw-back onyx evening stud, and a mother-of-pearl on brass evening stud. Scale: back of screw-back stud is 7mm.
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