03-30-2015, 08:54 AM
Graham.
Where you mention that the button cannot be moved without it being sewn on the outside this is not correct for the triangular of circular bracket of the button could go through a very small vertical slot cut in the material then the button could be moved some 5 mm away from the edge and then the bracket piece sewn on the inside, and with the loops made smaller for a very tight fit over the button itself there is now an overlap that closes the garment completely.
Where Renatus also mentioned as indeed I have in the past can there have been small gaps in the stitching of the piping edge of the garment worn by the Camomile street soldier that help to create a type of button hole for the two upper buttons to go through, this is I suppose where both myself and Mike Bishop tend to consider if the Romans really did have the button hole.
Where you mention that the button cannot be moved without it being sewn on the outside this is not correct for the triangular of circular bracket of the button could go through a very small vertical slot cut in the material then the button could be moved some 5 mm away from the edge and then the bracket piece sewn on the inside, and with the loops made smaller for a very tight fit over the button itself there is now an overlap that closes the garment completely.
Where Renatus also mentioned as indeed I have in the past can there have been small gaps in the stitching of the piping edge of the garment worn by the Camomile street soldier that help to create a type of button hole for the two upper buttons to go through, this is I suppose where both myself and Mike Bishop tend to consider if the Romans really did have the button hole.
Brian Stobbs
