Buttons History

Buttons for clothes has been used in History long years ago, Buttons has been discovered in the Indus Valley Civilization during its Kot Diji phase 2700 BC and another button at the Tomb of the Eagles, Scotland 2000 BC as well as Bronze Age sites in China between 2000–1500 BC and Ancient Rome.

In ancient Rome, buttons made from seashell were used in the Indus Valley Civilization for ornamental purposes by 2000 BC that "the button, in fact, was originally used more as an ornament than as a fastening, the earliest known being found at Mohenjo-daro in the Indus Valley. It is made of a curved shell and about 5000 years old.





Buttons are also used in Egypt’s Eighteenth Dynasty left behind ornate wig covers, fabricated through sewing buttons formed of precious metals onto strips of backing material.

Leather work, from the Roman Empire, incorporates some of the first button holes, with the legionary Loculus closed through the insertion of a metallic buckle, or button into a leather slit. A mechanism that would later feature on early medieval foot ware.

Buttons appeared as a means to close cuffs in Eastern Roman, and Byzantine empires, and to fasten the necks of Egyptian tunics, no later than the 5th century AD.


Functional buttons with buttonholes for fastening or closing clothes appeared in Germany in the 13th century. They soon became widespread with the rise of snug-fitting garments in 13th- and 14th-century Europe.

Do you know why, Men’s Wear’s has the buttons on right side and women’s has on left side?

Buttons are replaced to right side as most of the men use primarily right hand and it is easy to button up with right hand. But why women’s wear is on left side, are women’s mostly lefty!

Of course not, the clue goes to 13th. Century, in 13th. Century buttons was not cheap, and the apparels with the buttons could be afforded by only rich women’s, and rich women’s were not wearing the clothes by themselves. Their maids were helping them to dress up. So women buttons are on left as a maid still button it up with a right hand.

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