Show buttons now Ob obsolete once did real service buttons placed on the underside of 0 mens coat sleeves says a correspondent of the cleveland plain dealer were there to fasten the long lace cuffs while tile the wearers bearers rode horseback or had occasion to reach across the table tor for another helping of journey cakes better known as johnny calies cakes for similar reasons namely to fasten up the lace buttons were placed along the sides of knee breeches to facilitate ease in horseback riding buttons placed in the general vicinity of the small of the back on coats were there ther to fasten the lie coat tails while horseback riding throughout connecticut there ure are still to be some of these old colonial coats and knee breeches with the lace laca and coat tall buttons still intact I 1 have seen coat tails made with button holes beautifully sewn this beats out tile the coattail coat tail button theory and I 1 have also seen beautiful lace cuffs with adequate buttonholes worked in I 1 have not seen kinte breeches lace with buttonholes worked in but it Is quite logical to believe that such lace exists or existed |