Shire Publication - Buttonhooks and Shoehorns - 2000 - No.122

Sue Brandon

ISBN 10: 0852636962 / ISBN 13: 9780852636961

Verlag: Shire Publications, Aylesbury, 2000

Beschreibung

### Shire Publication - Buttonhooks and Shoehorns - 2000 - No.122 ### ## FIRST ADDITION 2000 ## ## 2000 Edition ## Shire Publications are a great series of books, the early ones having just 32 pages the later books are double those pages. These books offer such a wealth of information, social history and local history and pastimes will be forgotten if these and other books aren't available. Always well written and researched and this one is no exception, from the front page to the last lots of photos and drawings to inspire and use as a reference book. New book 2000, so no marks etc. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers MMXX-152-shire

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Shire Publication - Buttonhooks and ...

Verlag: Shire Publications, Aylesbury

Erscheinungsdatum: 2000

Einband: Soft Cover Colour Printed Cove

Zustand: As New

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket

Signiert: No Author signature

Über diesen Titel

Inhaltsangabe:

The everyday need for a buttonhook began in the early nineteenth century when it was used, as an accessory to masculine fashion, to fasten stiff leather button-boots. By the 1880s, lines of buttons had become fashionable on ladies' gloves, clothing and footwear, and the development of the feminine market encouraged the production of 'fashion buttonhooks' in the wide variety of sizes, shapes and materials that are described in this book, and which can still be found by collectors today. Shoehorns were frequently produced as companions to buttonhooks, but although the latter had fallen into disuse by the 1940s, shoehorns still exist in most shoe shops and some homes to facilitate the slipping on of footwear. A 'schoying horne' was first mentioned in the fifteenth century and the imagination exercised around the well-known basic shape has resulted in the variety so interesting to present day collectors.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

Sue Brandon and her husband have been collecting buttonhooks since 1972. From the beginning they collected every type of buttonhook and this has resulted in a comprehensive collection, which now extends to other associated items such as shoehorns. Mrs Brandon is a member of the Buttonhook Society.