Originally Posted by GGrammie
I too, remember, material being sold at Penney's Sears, MW. almost every department store sold material. I also remember my mom and neighbors, taking old clothes apart to make things for the kids. We all collected buttons. On rainy days we would amuse ourselves by stringing like buttons together with strings from the meat market.
How things have changed...
I still have Mom's old button box - we spent many rainy hours sorting & playing with her buttons. Mom was way ahead of her time with recycling & re-using clothing, buttons, etc - many of our clothes were from old dresses taken apart, & back then, no one I knew threw away an old piece of clothing without removing the buttons first.