Modern clothes can not be imagined without buttons. And the very first appeared in the III millennium BC. It was the buttons of that era that were found during archaeological excavations in the valley of the Indus River. In the Middle Ages, a large number of buttons on clothing was an indicator of the noble origin of man. For example, on the parade costume of the French King Francis First there were 13,600 buttons. However, with the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, it played a cruel joke: in 1914 he was assassinated in the city of Sarajevo. While all the buttons were unbuttoned, precious time was lost. A few minutes later, Franz Ferdinand passed away. But on the soldiers' greatcoats of the army of Napoleon, the buttons were tin. What is good for warm France, in Russia was a problem - in the cold, tin just crumbled, and the form fell from the soldiers.
Emperor Peter the First once noticed that the sleeves on the soldiers' uniforms were greasy. The thing is that the soldiers, recruited from the peasants, had a habit of wiping their mouths after eating their sleeves. By the way, my nose was wiped the same way. Peter decided to wean them from such a habit, having ordered sewing on the sleeves of a button. There they were completely unnecessary, but it was difficult to use a cuff instead of a napkin and a handkerchief. As you know, men's clothing is fastened to the right side. This is not without reason. In ancient times, during the battle, the soldier held a shield in his left hand. The left floor was fastened to the right to prevent the opponent's sword from falling between them.
Filobutonist - the so-called collector of buttons. The first collection of button collectors appeared in Chicago in 1939. But the Chinese collector Bu Jinfang was introduced even in the Guinness Book of Records, he managed to collect a collection of buttons, in which there were 110,000 copies.