The Coat Route (28 page)

8
This, despite the fact:
R. Campbell,
The London Tradesman: Being a Compendious View of All the Trades, Professions, Arts, Both Liberal and Mechanic, Now Practiced in the Cities of London and Westminster
(London: T. Gardner, 1747), p. 245.

9
“Buttons turned out to be”:
Nicholas Kristof, “Qiaotou Journal: Chinese Bet Their Shirts on Buttons and, Bingo!”
The New York Times
, January 18, 1993.

10
“The set was the scorecard”:
Steven M. Gelber,
Hobbies: Leisure and the Culture of Work in America
(New York: Columbia University Press, 1999), p. 76

11
“It was not uncommon while”:
The American Archaeologist
, vols. 2–3 (Columbus, Ohio: Landon Printing & Publishing, 1898), p. 332.

12
The show, called
Hobby Lobby:
Gelber,
Hobbies
, p. 47.

13
“become more charming and beautiful”:
“Do Men Have the Most Fun?”
Ladies’ Home Journal
, October 1939.

14
“Nearly two thirds of buttons”:
Lillian Smith Albert and Kathryn Schwerke,
The Complete Button Book
(Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1949), p. viii.

15
“The absurdity of collecting”:
Gelber,
Hobbies
, p. 64.

16
“Buttons are the fossils”:
The World According to Martha
, ed. Bill Adler (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2005), p. 52.

17
Simon Doonan, creative director:
Simon Doonan, “Shoplifting Retailers Chase Hightailers: Fleece Is Very In This Fall,”
The New York Observer
, September 29, 2003.

18
An 1892 issue of:
Chemist
+
Druggist
, vol. 40, March 5, 1892, p. 345.

7. THE GOLD TRIMMINGS

1
“When a work lifts your spirits”:
Jean de la Bruyère,
The Characters of Jean de la Bruyère
(London: John C. Nimmo, 1885), p. 18.

2
“The steadiness of nerve”:
“Spokane Engraver Cuts Prayer on Head of Pin, Monogram on Needle Point,”
The Spokesman-Review
, Spokane, Wash.: February 21, 1915.

8. THE TAILOR

1
“A smack of all Human Life lies”:
Thomas Carlyle,
The Works of Thomas Carlyle: Past and Present
(New York: Peter Fenelon Collier, 1897), p. 424.

2
“Eventually, though, the pressure”:
Robert Ross,
Clothing: A Global History
(Cambridge, Mass.: Polity Press, 2008), p. 170.

3
“They wear shiny frock-coats”:
R.E.N. Twopenny, Town Life in
Australia
(London: Elliot Stock, 1883), p. 79.

4
“I was always given a chair”:
Lydia Gill,
My Town: Sydney in the 1930’s
(Sydney: State Library of NSW Press, 1993).

9. THE COAT

1
“Costly thy habit as thy purse”:
William Shakespeare,
Hamlet
, Act 1, Scene 3, 70–72.

EPILOGUE

1
“Those who find beautiful meanings”:
Oscar Wilde,
The Picture of Dorian Gray
(Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1981), p. xxiii.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
 

Meg Lukens Noonan has written for many publications, including
Outside
,
National Geographic Adventure
,
Travel
+
Leisure
,
Esquire
,
Men’s Journal
, and
The New York Times
. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband and two daughters.