Try to imagine your life without the buttons. Large, small, flat, convex, metal, plastic, ceramic, antique or modern – all of them borrowed their unobtrusive place in the list of practical things. And it is not surprising that the Day of the Day is celebrated all over the world on November 16th

A funny holiday, which initially causes only a smile, was initiated by the American organization National Button Society in the XX century. A little familiar thing, which we sometimes do not notice, has an incredible story. The late Paleolithic mammoth bones have reached us, but scientists believe that the first buttons appeared in ancient Rome.
Close to the buttons for use were initially fibrils, which, in addition to practical functions, played the role of decoration. Really similar to a brooch, the fiends served as an accessory of the riches and nobles in the VI century. until e. And about the VIII century. N. In Ukraine, widespread buttons of the straw were made. They were made of bones or trees, and wealthy individuals could afford articles made of precious metals. The name of the knuckles was taken down because of its shape and weight.
Among the archaeological finds of Zhytomyr region there are enough buttons that belong to different historical periods. But one of the most interesting is the button, on the one hand written Zhytomyr, on the other – Paris. He was found on the territory of the present village of Singura, near Zhytomyr.
Investigators called their delight with buttons as the smart word “photonics”. So called collecting old buttons of different shapes, origins, materials.
We all become a bit of phyto-botanists when we leave the old buttons just in case, but the real largest collection of buttons in the world – about 100 thousand units – was collected in the American city of New Jersey. But who knows how many of them are in the collections of Ukrainian phi-bioists?
So try today to present your clothes, shoes or accessories without this petty element. It’s hard, isn’t it?
Translated by Aliona Matushevich