Can You Spot the Fake Buttons?

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My mission: to recreate missing buttons for an eighteenth-century waistcoat in time for the opening of Fashioning Fashion earlier this month. Here was a six-button waistcoat with not one, but three missing delicately crafted buttons.Man’s Coat and Vest, Italy, c. 1800, Costume Council FundThe bottom half of the buttons seemed easy enough—silk fabric pulled over a flat disk form, somewhat loose at the bottom for sewing the buttons onto the vest.The challenge was the top half of the existing buttons.