Back in the day, I worked in a clothing store that sold coats. I would often mention that changing the buttons on a coat was a good way to make it look better. The store where I worked would sell every coat with cheap tortoiseshell plastic buttons, and that made me barf. Nice coats ruined by ugly-ass buttons.
When I suggested that sewing on new buttons would transforma a coat, the customers would looked at me like changing the buttons on a coat was
the most work any human had ever had to do. Its not a big deal! Sewing a button is something every man,woman and child should at least know how to do.
Lets do this.
Buy an "affordable coat"...Ok, boring/cheap/whatever coat. This one is a very normal one from
H&M which I bought because I needed a "lady coat."
See, cheap buttons. Horror.
Figure out how many buttons you need, buy 'em. I bought mine off of
Etsy, by searching in the
supplies category. They were extremely affordable.
I had a hard time finding buttons I liked that were also the same size as the old crappy plastic buttons, so I gambled a bit and bought slightly smaller buttons. I knew I may have to sew up the button holes a tiny bit if they ended up too small.
See, tiny! Oh well.
Sewing them on is easy but boring. Only 5 of them actually keep the coat closed, so I focused on sewing those on really well and kind of phoned in the other five. haha. No one will ever know.
In the end I only ended up replacing the double row of buttons on the jacket, not all the pocket, collar and shoulder ones, it was just too many white buttons. I think it was a success! I didn't even have to sew up the button holes more because of the smaller buttons.
I had TONS of people compliment me on my coat, and its is all really the buttons. FOOLED YOU.
Ever since working at that clothing store, I feel its my mission to rid the world of hideous plastic cheap-o buttons. I banish you.
Do it!
