Comments on: Maureen Rose, Button Maker

By: Jeannie Frances DiMauro

Jeannie Frances DiMauro — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 05:28:01 +0000

Jennifer Newbold: The Tender Buttons shop you mentioned actually closed… I think it was closed about a year ago. I heard somewhere there are plans to re-open it at some time…. maybe with a different owner.

By: Steph

Steph — Mon, 18 Oct 2021 15:56:01 +0000

What a beautiful article! What I would give to rummage!! Lol

By: Peter Halston

Peter Halston — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 07:33:25 +0000

Would a companion piece interest you?
David Miller at DM Buttons is the chap to use to make proper buttonholes for Maureen’s buttons.
If he had to rely on me he’d be broke in days; thankfully, there’s enough work for him to hang on.

https://dmbuttons.co.uk/

By: Jae Bea

Jae Bea — Wed, 13 Oct 2021 17:50:03 +0000

TINA that old button shop on New Road Whitechapel — that was so much part of your childhood as a dressmaker’s daughter — is just across the junction from where Maureen’s mother lived on Cannon Street. I suspect there’s a lovely conversation to be had as and when you visit 22 Cleveland Street 🙂

GA, totally enchanting introduction as ever. Thank you

By: Cherub

Cherub — Tue, 12 Oct 2021 22:19:38 +0000

I loved this post as I totally love buttons and have jars of all different kinds I’ve collected over the years. My favourites are special hand made glass ones from E Europe. They can make or break an outfit, especially something that is hand knitted. I also cover buttons in things like scraps of tweed using a button mould. For me they are just lovely things to have around.

By: Margaret May Erangey

Margaret May Erangey — Tue, 12 Oct 2021 06:47:24 +0000

My father always had a “ button box” on his chest of drawers…spent many an hour when I was a child playing with them…happy days!

By: Tina Gregoriou

Tina Gregoriou — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 20:27:35 +0000

There used to be a shop similar to this in New Rd, Stepney. They would make belts and buttons for you. You went up two steps, it was at the beginning of New Rd on the right coming in from Commercial Rd. My mum used to take me there to get her buttons and belts. She was a dress maker. Worked for Mary Quant, and lots of Jewish company’s. I remember one in Johnson Street just down Commercial Rd. Hard times.

By: Jennifer Newbold

Jennifer Newbold — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 15:59:26 +0000

I think I’d like to visit Maureen’s shop just to chat with her… she has the kind of sense of humour I appreciate!

When I was in my early 30s, there was a button shop in Midtown Manhattan that I used to walk past on occasion. The window was always filled with beautiful buttons. It was called ‘Tender Buttons’, and I remember the name because it was so whimsical. I don’t believe I ever went into the shop because I had no extra money and wasn’t confident making my own clothes, but I loved to look in the window at the buttons… like little jewels! I wonder if it is still there.

By: Ann V

Ann V — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 15:38:57 +0000

Wonderful! I could spend all day in Maureen’s shop. Can I recommend a brilliant book for anybody interested in buttons and women’s lives. It is called ‘The Button Box’, written by Lynn Knight.

By: paul loften

paul loften — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 14:10:19 +0000

Thank you for showing us a useful shop that is not a vapery. However I must take exception to Maureen’s assertion that retired people have lost the plot . There are many plots in life that people discover outside of their daily work