Bachelor button (sewing) explained

A bachelor button is a button that can be attached without sewing. It uses a stud pressed through fabric and into a top button.^{[1] [2]} They were sold in notion stores in the late 1800s and early 1900s as an emergency repair button. They could be attached and removed.^[3] 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.^[4]

Notes and References

1. https://books.google.com/books?id=QjxdqTfi5usC&pg=PA80 Mayman, Doug, “Led Soldiers”
2. https://books.google.com/books?id=s2Tr0-fWHbAC&q=%22bachelor+button%22+sewing Harmsworth's Household Encyclopedia: A-CIV, 1920, p179
3. https://books.google.com/books?id=LPZIAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA38&dq=%22bachelor+button%22+sewing “The dyestuff situation in the textile industries” United States Tariff Commission, 1918, p38
4. https://books.google.com/books?id=BnIoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA122 From “Out of a Silver Flute”, 1896, page 122