Bachelor Button

Bachelor button (sewing)

A bachelor button is a button that can be attached without sewing. It uses a stud pressed through fabric and into a top button. They were sold in notion stores in the late 1800s and early 1900s as an emergency repair button. They could be attached and removed. The poem “A Bachelor's Button” is a lament by a man whose lover never sewed his button on his coat and had to use a bachelor's button to repair it.

Bachelor's buttons

Bachelor's buttons is a common name for several plant species bearing buttonlike heads of composite flowers

Bachelor

A bachelor is a man who is not and has never been married.

Button

A button is a fastener that joins two pieces of fabric together by slipping through a loop or by sliding through a buttonhole.

bachelor

Noun

1. A person, especially a man, who is socially regarded as able to marry but has not yet.
2. A bachelor apartment.

button

Noun

1. A knob or disc that is passed through a loop or (buttonhole), serving as a fastener. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
2. A mechanical device designed to be pressed with a finger in order to open or close an electric circuit or to activate a mechanism.

Verb

1. To fasten with a button.
2. To be fastened by a button or buttons.