In France there was no extensive use of buttons until near the end of Louis XIV.'s reign, and they were simple, the Court having become austere, But luxurious tastes Followed when the buttons were carved, chiselled, and set with multi-coloured jewels. Under Louis XV. they were us exquisitely paint ed and as costly og miniatures. The price was enormous, until Louis XVI. effected a change by ving only the simplest produc-possible, and a button factory lished in Paris, the first in France, where bone, ivory, and mother-of-pearl buttons were' produced. After the Revolution bute tons became general. hidden Buttons England occupied the ti Parliament. Five Acts, some of them still unrepealed, have been passed to protect the button indus. try. An Act of George T. penalized to the extent of 40 shillings any person who used of sold "buttons made of cloth, serge, drugget, frieze, for camlet," which sounds strangely im moder ears, When George 1V. was Regent it was the fashion for men to wear huge flat, plain buttons of polished steel or silver, like $0 many mirrors. The mode gave an advantage to unseraputous car players, who could see an opponent?
ceted in the tell-tale but~ ded wearing Pendvet,
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