The button tin of my childhood, with its huge variety of shapes, sizes and colours, encapsulated the presence and differing experiences of those who wore the garments. Babies, children, women and men, all with unique personalities and life events.      Buttons are the things that literally fasten us together. Those of us who are [...]

I have no idea where it came from. It wasn’t the sort of thing any member of my family would ever have intentionally owned. Probably a jumble sale find. My arms were lost inside its sleeves and as I struggled to walk in high-heeled shoes far too big for me, it trailed on the ground [...]