
The Button Box
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Tracing the story of women at home and in work, from the jet buttons of Victorian mourning, to the short skirts of the 1960s, taking in suffragettes, bachelor girls, little dressmakers, Biba and the hankering for vintage, The Button Box lifts the lid on women's lives and their clothes with elegance and wit.
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A charming work of social history * Bookseller * Knight explores her own family's history and, in parallel, the intimate history of women in the 20th century... The politics of being a modern woman are revealed through changing fashions... In Knight's hands, buttons - the humblest of everyday objects - become portals into the past, charting our progress along that road. * Literary Review * Charming book... Knight's brilliant notion is to use the button box she inherited from her grandmother as a way of delving into the fabric, literal and metaphorical, of the women who wore them... A patchwork of memory, anecdote and deft quotation. * The Sunday Times * Inspired by her own shimmering box of toggles, clasps and buckles, Knight takes us on an ingenious tour of domestic and social history over the last century... From this core of very personal material, Knight writes more generally of ordinary women's lives and changing prospects over three generations, of clothes as self-expression, as defiance, as entertainment, as evidence of frugality and frivolity all rolled into one. * Guardian * The drama of women's lives from the 19th to the mid-20th century was hidden in plain sight among the brightly coloured buttons that rattled so enticingly in [Knight's] grandmother's Quality Street tin... Fascinating social history. * Daily Mail * An unusual and irresistibly delightful account of more than a century's worth of women's lives... This is a book to make you smile, a story luminous with nostalgia... Delicious gem of a book. * Spectator * [Knight] quotes like a dream, cherry-picking bon mots from sources far, wide and delightful... There are plenty of curious and quirky details. * Financial Times * A sweeping look at how women's clothing has developed as our place in society has evolved... A delight. * Independent * Broader social history is approached through the rich, vivid stories... These buttons...tell an intimate story of changing times. * Sunday Telegraph * Each trinket of the past comes to life, giving a nice nostalgic and informative look into the history of fashion, the Great War and even a few comical anecdotes on sex and relationships. * Northern Echo *More details
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