Show 1 Buttons X Made Change X X in Worlds World's 7 Fashions 1 It Is remarkable what small things ha have hae e re o revolutionized zed the habits of ot the I world The change from the loose flowing robes of ot the ancients to to the fitted garments of these days da days 5 Is entirely entirely en tirel due to the time Invention of the button Once the new fashion was established established many substances were pressed Into service us materials for button making Birmingham Engl England l ll has held Its own as the most Important center of the Industry and though Birmingham has a n magnificent town townhall hull hall old Inhabitants say that it would pay to pull It down and dig up the foundations for It Is built hullt on a refuse heap of mother o or of pearl About time the middle of ot the Nineteenth I century the time manufacture of ot pearl buttons buttons but but- tons was one of Birmingham's chief industries Industries industrIes In in- II and shells were brou brought ht Ut lA such quantities from the Pearl Islands Island off olI the coast of Panama that manu punched one or two buttons out of the best part of the shell and threw the rest aw away |