{"product_id":"the-button-box-9780099593096","title":"The Button Box","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTracing the story of women at home and in work, from the jet buttons of Victorian mourning, to the short skirts of the 1960s, taking in suffragettes, bachelor girls, little dressmakers, Biba and the hankering for vintage, this book lifts the lid on women's lives and their clothes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA charming work of social history * Bookseller *\u003cbr\u003eKnight explores her own family’s history and, in parallel, the intimate history of women in the 20th century… The politics of being a modern woman are revealed through changing fashions… In Knight’s hands, buttons – the humblest of everyday objects – become portals into the past, charting our progress along that road. -- Lucy Moore * Literary Review *\u003cbr\u003eCharming book… Knight’s brilliant notion is to use the button box she inherited from her grandmother as a way of delving into the fabric, literal and metaphorical, of the women who wore them… A patchwork of memory, anecdote and deft quotation. -- Daisy Goodwin * The Sunday Times *\u003cbr\u003eInspired by her own shimmering box of toggles, clasps and buckles, Knight takes us on an ingenious tour of domestic and social history over the last century… From this core of very personal material, Knight writes more generally of ordinary women’s lives and changing prospects over three generations, of clothes as self-expression, as defiance, as entertainment, as evidence of frugality and frivolity all rolled into one. -- Claire Harman * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eThe drama of women’s lives from the 19th to the mid-20th century was hidden in plain sight among the brightly coloured buttons that rattled so enticingly in [Knight’s] grandmother’s \u003ci\u003eQuality Street\u003c\/i\u003e tin… Fascinating social history. -- Jane Shilling * Daily Mail *","brand":"Vintage Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732323774807,"sku":"9780099593096","price":10.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780099593096.jpg?v=1719996412","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-button-box-9780099593096","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}