October 16, 2013
In touch with your past
When are buttons not just buttons? When they are found while exploring the pocket of a vintage jacket. To be precise, my Grandmother Margaret’s WRN jacket from WW2. It had been tucked away for decades and recently reached me. Uncannily, it fits. A little moth-nibbled, the cut and fabric are still fantastic. Margaret loved her time in the Wrens. The buttons were kept in a home-sewn cotton bag in one flap pocket. In the other was a 1945 receipt for photograph developing (from her 1944 wedding perhaps) and a piece of quartz rock – perhaps souvenir of an outing with her husband Charlie… whose naval jacket is now hanging with hers in the History Wardrobe collection.
The moral is… always check the pockets
History Wardrobe 