Description
Button of resin, imitates cardboard one in shape. It's not afraid of water and other influences, durable! A good alternative to cardboard buttons.
We sell buttons in two colors: gray, feldgrau (dull green) and white (for white camo or underwear). Please choose the colour before ordering. If you find no desired colour there, then it is sold out.
Historical reference.
Buttons were used mainly on underwear, for example, shirts. But they began to be used quite massively for camouflage uniforms (after 1943). With the proven technology, cardboard buttons were cheaper to produce. But the main thing is that they could be made from affordable material (cardboard, wood product or waste paper recycling), whereas metal and plastic buttons required more scarce raw materials.
An example of using cardboard buttons. The photo shows the original things: a shirt from the website fjm44.com and a camouflage blouse shard from the same fjm44.com.
Glass buttons were also used as a half-measure. Nowadays, glass buttons are considered rare and fashionable. In wartime, glass (the product of processing sand and glass fragments) was not in short supply, and the economic meaning of glass buttons was different than it is now.
More examples of original cardboard buttons. They could be brown, gray, green, as well as white (for winter suits). There were also different sizes. The most common is 17 mm, as we suggest.
