Fascinating fasteners Button business: Once, the Morton Schenk Co.’s biggest customers were store alteration departments and clothiers’ seamstresses. Times have changed, but it’s still the ...

Jean Behringer’s house isn’t just home to a 10,000-button collection. It’s also the repository of numerous unpublished stories about buttons, clothes decorated with buttons, books about ...

‘Button’: A Clothing Fastener Becomes a Virtual Trigger What we press on our smartphones is an image that mimics a mechanical object, a common sort of borrowing with information technology.