Buttonhook: Difference between revisions
Content deleted Content added
Citation bot (talk | contribs) Add: title. Changed bare reference to CS1/2. | Use this bot. Report bugs. | Suggested by BrownHairedGirl | Linked from User:BrownHairedGirl/Articles_with_bare_links | #UCB_webform_linked 436/1045 |
two sources currently; more would be nice |
||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
{{About|the clothing tool|the American football run pattern "Button hook"|Curl (route)}} |
{{About|the clothing tool|the American football run pattern "Button hook"|Curl (route)}} |
||
{{ |
{{more references|date=December 2021}} |
||
[[Image:Button hook from Ziefle & Nissle, Fine Shoes, Ann Arbor, Michigan..jpg|thumb|Early 20th-century buttonhook advertising a shoe shop in Michigan]] |
[[Image:Button hook from Ziefle & Nissle, Fine Shoes, Ann Arbor, Michigan..jpg|thumb|Early 20th-century buttonhook advertising a shoe shop in Michigan]] |
||
[[File:Damkänga från 1899 med kängknäppare - Nordiska Museet - NMA.0034994.jpg|thumb|A buttonhook in use on a {{circa|1900}} boot]] |
[[File:Damkänga från 1899 med kängknäppare - Nordiska Museet - NMA.0034994.jpg|thumb|A buttonhook in use on a {{circa|1900}} boot]] |
||
Revision as of 17:32, 18 December 2021
 | This article needs additional citations for verification. (December 2021) |
A buttonhook is a tool used to facilitate the closing of buttoned shoes, gloves or other clothing. It consists of a hook fixed to a handle which may be simple or decorative as part of a dresser set or chatelaine. Sometimes they were given away as promotions with product advertising on the handle. To use, the hook end is inserted through the buttonhole to capture the button by the shank and draw it through the opening.[1]: 7
Buttonhooks have other uses as well. At Ellis Island, screeners known as "buttonhook men" used buttonhooks to turn immigrants' eyelids inside out to look for signs of trachoma.[2]
Buttonhooks on display at Bedford Museum & Art Gallery
-
With handles of horn and wood -
With handles of silver -
Trench art buttonhooks -
Pocket knives with buttonhooks
References
- ^ Johnson, Eleanor (1980). Fashion Accessories. UK: Shire Publications. ISBN 0-85263-530-3.
- ^ "Ellis Island".
External links
- Silverdale Buttonhooks
- 2013 Exhibition of Buttonhooks, Buxton Museum & Art Gallery, Buxton, Derbyshire, U.K.
 | This fashion-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |