At one point in my family’s history, someone — maybe my grandmother, maybe her mother before her — knew how to sew a button back onto a pair of pants. But in the years that ensued, and certainly by ...

Sewing on a lost button is like doing your taxes – it’s inevitable, it’s a hassle and not doing it makes you look like a delinquent. Nobody looks good with a gaping hole in his dress shirt or a safety ...