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I live in Paris and you can find highly specialized shops too. Some shops only sell about three types of fabric, some others will sell only buttons, a certain

I live in Paris and you can find highly specialized shops too. Some shops only sell about three types of fabric, some others will sell only buttons, a certain type of leather or a special type of ink. I love getting in those shops and meeting the people who are really passionate about their visibly small yet huge niche. It always get wonderful once you start looking at the details.

crispyambulance 7y ago
FWIW, there is likely to be a button shop wherever you got enough seamstresses, tailors, dressmakers and fashion industry. Buttons are really something you have to see and touch in person. As a child, my mother used to take me with her to "Parker Buttons" in downtown Pittsburgh. I remember plunging my arms elbows-deep into containers of shiny black buttons. Nothing else like it in the world.
- DonHopkins 7y ago
  Those Button Men can be pretty intense! https://youtu.be/UBOG5556_0g?t=12m5s https://youtu.be/UBOG5556_0g?t=12m5s Mr. Lossoff always reminds me of another Button Man, Ted Selker, inventor of the distinguished "Joy Button". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hhnlaUxsL8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hhnlaUxsL8