Buttons Makes A Statement

I really have a fascination with buttons! There is just something about a coat or jacket with buttons that I'm crazy about; which I have come to realize its the style of the buttons and how they're arranged on the garment. They make such a design statement and adds an interesting fashion feature that gives the coat its own identity and makes it more visually appealing. I think this love began many years ago when I first started admiring vintage fashions. Some of my most admired women fashion trends from the 1950's and 1960's include elegant clothes that are adorned with buttons that catches the eye. These beautiful coats are fashionable examples of styles of the era's.

Model wearing a stripe trapeze-style coat with three oversize fabric-covered buttons

Photo by: Erwin Blumenfeld, circa 1950's 

A scene from 1963 film "A New Kind Of Love" 
Woman wearing a tan 3/4-sleeved coat fastened at the neck with two oversize (possibly) glass buttons 

British Vogue, September 1950

Model Barbara Goalen wearing coat by Michael Sherard with lots of buttons

Pierre Cardin, Elle March 1960

Actress Karen Blanguernon modeling wool coat with large buttons

Model in Pierre Cardin hot pink ensemble adorned with large ball buttons
Vogue Patterns Counter Master Book Summer 1965

Model (left) wearing oversize collar coat with two large round flat buttons 

Photo by Louis Faurer, 1960  

 L'Officiel, September 1963 issue

These black round buttons really bring out the beauty in this hot pink wool suit 

DESIGNER PROFILE: Sir Edwin Hardy Amies

A English fashion designer, Sir Hardy Amies served as the official dressmaker to Queen Elizabeth II for more than 40 years. In 1945, Sir Amies established the most successful English couture house known for its beautiful clothing and accessories for men and women. In 1947 for the first time, his designs appeared on the cover of Vogue and in 1961 he made fashion history by staging the first men's ready-to-wear catwalk show.

Model Simone d’Aillencourt with British designer Sir Hardy Amies,
 photo by Frank Horvat for Vogue UK, London, 1961

Model wears a fitted Cumberland Tweed Suit with matching checked,
 coat and a felt woolen hat into the shape of an upturned plant pot, 1950

1958 Hardy Amies coat Ad for "The Queen" magazine

Barbara Goalen models a Sir Hardy Amies dress

Model Barbara Goalen with Sir Hardy Amies, 1952