HISTORY148 - Clothes Fasteners
As usual, the idea for this blog came out of talking with Pat, who was telling me about her grandmother who ran a dress-making business in Brooklyn, New York in the early 1900s. That discussion soon moved into the subject of zippers, the new clothes fastener of Pat’s grandmother’s time. From there, we talked about all the different clothes fasteners we could think of, not knowing when they were invented, nor their development history, or popularity today. So, I began thinking that I would research and write about the history of clothes fasteners, such as pins, buttons, snap fasteners, suspenders and belts, zippers, and more. I was well down the road in my thinking when I realized that I needed to start with the history of stitching (sewing) because many historical and modern fastening techniques rely heavily on specialized stitching. After an introduction, in which I will say more about the strong relationship between stitching and clothes fas...
