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    CUTE AS A BUTTON

    May 31, 2022 2 minutes
    FEATURE EMMA LONGSTAFF

    ‘Buttons sort of grow on you,’ says Maureen Needham, a button collector and member of The British Button Society. ‘I started with a shoe box, then I filled that, so I moved to a boot box, and now I have a big plastic box. I’m still going!’

    Buttons have been an important part of fashionable

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