It Wasn't the Button That Changed How We Dress. It Was the Hole.
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There's a piece of clothing technology on your shirt right now that's over five thousand years old — and for most of that history, it did nothing at all. The button sat on clothing for four millennia as pure decoration. It didn't fasten a single garment until the 13th century, when an anonymous person somewhere in Germany cut a small slit into fabric and stitched the edge so it wouldn't fray. That reinforced hole — not the button — changed how humans dress forever. In this History of the Button, we follow the button from the Indus Valley to Renaissance sumptuary laws, from Napoleon's disintegrating tin buttons (a legend that probably never happened) to Muscatine, Iowa — the pearl-button capital of the world that drained a river of mussels in a single generation. The button gets all the credit. But it did nothing for four thousand years. The buttonhole — anonymous, undated, uncredited — is the real invention. CHAPTERS 0:00 — The button that did nothing for 4,000 years 0:32 — The
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