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"Buttons were originally nothing but ornamentation sewn onto clothing," Christa Poppelmann writes in 1,000 Common Delusions. "The first may be traced back to 2000 BC, and even in antiquity otherwise plain togas and tunics were ornamented with sewn-on buttons. It was only about 1300 AD that the idea arose of using the buttons as fasteners. The immediate result was a rise in particularly close-fitting fashions. During the Renaissance, a veritable 'button mania' broke out. Many pieces of clothing were inundated with hundreds and even thousands of buttons, and they all needed to be buttoned up."

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