Clothing buttons, sewed for ornating and fastening the garment, are a clothing accessory that allows thread passing it through a loop or a buttonhole. Before purchasing a garment, in addition to the design details and the cloth, one should never ignore the buttons. A decent button goes unnoticed, but a bad button is obvious. A great button is a small piece of art that also serves as an important part of your apparel. For brands, sewing decent buttons for your garment is a finishing touch for creating brand value. We provide efficient button customization services as below.
What material?
Plastic buttons
There are plastic buttons and resin buttons. In short, plastic is a form of resin. Resin is entirely natural, but plastic is a synthetic chemical compound. Because of the difference in manufacturing processes, the resin buttons look cleaner and brighter on the surface. Plastic buttons, however, have the advantage of an easier molding process which means more shapes and easier electroplating.
Metal buttons
Made of silver, brass, zinc alloy, or stainless steel, the metal button comes in various surfacing finishing. Snap buttons, jeans buttons, rivets, and eyelets belong to this category. Polished metal buttons capture the eye in a subtle and discreet way. They are the best for presenting your logo. What’s more, to boost the tone of their couture, brands customize the metal buttons with personalized patterns.
Natural buttons
Natural buttons are preferable due to their unique characteristics. They are considered ecological because they use a renewable resources and are biodegradable. Every button is unique. There are shell buttons, wooden buttons, horn buttons, coconut buttons, Corozo buttons, stone buttons, etc. It is also pickier in the application of garments than metal and plastic buttons due to its properties.
What type?
To get a better customization experience, you can distinguish clothing buttons according to their end use.
Suit buttons
Horn buttons made of natural buffalo horn are a rather common accessory used in haute couture. These buttons are firm and warm to the touch. Shell buttons made from the mother of pearl shells are used on light-colored suits. Ivory buttons which are akin to ivory also suitable for suits. Fashion casual suits mainly use metal buttons. Retro suits use more wooden buttons.
Shirt buttons
Classical Italian-style premium shirts prefer shell buttons. If your brand goes upscale, then choose from gleaming mother-of-pearl buttons and understated, rustic wooden buttons. Resin buttons are more suitable for fashion FMCG clothing brands. Equally, importantly, color differences result in differing needs for button colors. White shirts generally use white shell buttons or resin buttons. Shirt buttons are commonly four-hole buttons, both firm and beautiful.
Coat buttons
Sew-on snap buttons are useful for fastening its left front and right front. Decorative buttons such as gold metal buttons enhance the texture of the coat. The coat buttons are larger in size and more decorative in appearance. Coat buttons should also be more stringent in terms of resistance to wear and tear.
Jeans buttons
You can never go wrong with metal buttons and denim products.
Donut buttons and tack buttons are two of them. Rivets, moreover, are used for sewing at the corners of thicker fabrics to provide reinforcement.
This is a table of the general use of different types of buttons
| metal buttons | leather, denim clothes, men’s suit, jacket, blazer |
| plastic buttons | men’s women’s kids wear |
| MOP buttons | shirts, blouses, dresses |
| horn buttons | men’s suit, jacket, blazer |
| wooden buttons | for decoration purpose |
| coconut buttons | casual clothing |
What button size?
Internationally, ligne is the standard unit for measuring buttons. 1 ligne is equivalent to 0.635mm.
| Ligne(L) | Millimeters(mm) | Inch(in) |
| 10 | 6.35 | 0.25 |
| 12 | 7.5 | 5/16 |
| 14 | 9 | 11/32 |
| 16 | 10 | 13/32 |
| 18 | 11.5 | 15/32 |
| 20 | 12.5 | 1/2 |
| 22 | 14 | 9/16 |
| 24 | 15 | 5/8 |
| 26 | 16 | 21/32 |
| 28 | 18 | 23/32 |
| 30 | 19 | 3/4 |
| 32 | 20 | 13/16 |
| 34 | 21.5 | 27/32 |
| 36 | 24 | 15/16 |
| 40 | 25 | 1 |
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