Baltimore’s biggest button box is the aging but still vigorous Morton Schenk Co., the place where tailors head for elusive little circles of pearl, plastic, rhinestone, bone and metal. And let’s not ...

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 It’s also the repository of numerous unpublished stories about buttons, clothes decorated with buttons, books about buttons old ...

Thirty years ago, Helen Vance was working in her antiques shop in Homestead, Fla., when a woman came in and asked her if she'd like to buy an old button collection the woman had inherited. “She said ...