Lasting button

Sample card with Lasting buttons, around 1950

A lasting button is a fabric-covered button that was used in the past, for example, for men's skirts or as an inner button for fur clothing .

The royal Württemberg tax councilor Moritz Mohl wrote in 1845:

“These so-called lasting buttons have recently been the ones mainly worn on men's tails and overcoats, and a company for the manufacture of such buttons in Württemberg should promise an important trade. Until now, the English Lasting buttons are still considered the best in Paris ; however, a number of Parisian wholesalers are already manufacturing this type of button. I am trying in vain to gain access to these factories, since the Parisian manufacturers are still all making a secret of the way the Lasting buttons are made - or as they are called in France: des boutons à queue flexible. "

Moritz Mohl described a button for men's skirts acquired as a sample in France: “A so-called lasting button, covered with fabric, with a metal plate underneath and a soft handle, 7 lines . Diameter]".

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Moritz Mohl: From the economic results of a trip to France . Cotta, 1845, p. 296.