More Buttons, More MAD, and the Weekly Photo Challenge: Rounded

It’s hard to get more rounded than a button, so I’ll take this excuse to post yet another kind of button collection —

Assorted buttons… mostly rounded.

Not that this is a conscious collection, it’s a group of ‘found’ buttons I put together when I came across them while packing up. Some must have been Bob’s (Politically Incorrect). Later I found political buttons old enough to have been his father’s, but by now they’re packed up again. They may show up in a later post.

Here’s a button collection from a display at MAD’s (the Museum of Art and Design) Counter Couture show last March.  It’s a time-capsule, an interesting aside to the exhibition, and a flashback if you remember the Sixties (but as the saying goes, if you remember the Sixties you weren’t really there). It was a big time for buttons, so someone got a little humor out of the ‘Ban Buttons’ button —

A Historical View: Sixties Buttons at MAD’s Counter Couture

While we’re at MAD,  here’s a view of a gorgeous and eye-popping crocheted wrap and bathing suit with rounded patterns. Curves may have been synonymous with groovy there for a while. —

Birgitta Bjerke – Red Hands bathing suit (wool), and on the wall, Heather Daltrey coat , 1968 (wool)  Wait, what — wool bathing suit?

As for the Sixties, here’s a test: “Remember what the dormouse said?”

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