Buy Beautiful Buttons Showing Elephants to decorate a plain solid bright colour skirt and top set, post 483

 If you are looking for embellishments for an outfit, consider sewing on large buttons with your favourite motif. Elphant buttons are sewn onto Thai clothing. They are on foldover / wrap blouses which fasten underneath with hidden snaps (which in England we call press studs). Here are elephant buttons which I ordered in a large size. You can get elephant buttons in all sizes and designs, as well as owls and other motifs.

I ordered these three elephant buttons online. They are bigger than I expected and beautiful. 

I have already ordered a blue Thai top with the classic three elephant buttons.

 I already have a top in red which I bought years ago in Singapore in a clothes shop in Holland Village. I can't find my red top. Maybe it's in storage. 

I can see it in a photo of 231 in this blog.  The three buttons are below the bust across the tummy to the waist area. The red skirt completes the look, but does not have buttons.

The fabric is stiff and creases a bit. Yet I always feel like I'm worth a million dollars when wearing the three elephants. 

The Ideal Number of Elephant Buttons
Would one elephant be enough? More focused? The black skirt has just one. Subtle.
Would two be better than one? A happy devoted pair?
Why three? The Japanese like odd numbers. Three is a family, a group, a line, following each other. The three tops, the red, the green, and the blue, all have three.
Four? More epensive. More time sewing them on.
Three is perfect.

Blue linen top with three elephant buttons.

Meanwhile I ordered a blue version from the USA, at a resonable price, but doubled by the packing cost. When I 'watched' the item, by clicking on watch on ebay, the  seller, notified that I was watching, came back with an irrestible offer, not just one or two dollars but several. I bought.

I was thinking of asking relatives by marriage if they would allow me to have it sent to their relatives they are staying with in the USA, and bring it back to England. 

But that is a whole palaver. The risk is that it could arrive when they are away on a cruise, or after they have left. Or somebody not expecting it could refuse to sign for it.

 So I bought it.

The Green Elephant Top
However, I did not buy the other green one. 

I vaguely wondered whether I could order it for my birthday or to ask somebody to buy it for me. I have been watching it for well over a year.  

Attractive Elephant Buttons
Instead I bought three elegant elephant buttons. 

Not the same as the ones on my Thai clothes. They are a smooth metal, thin, not very shiny. 

My new three in the filigree type are even nicer. A good buy.

In fact, so pretty, one of them could be used as a pendant. Or a brooch. Maybe suspened from a brooch, to match a pendant.  Or sewn on a scarf. 


My black Skirt With One Elephant Button
This black skirt will pair with all the tops, the blue which I shall receive by post soon, the mislaid red, the green which I still hanker after.

You can buy tiny elephant buttons for children's clothes, in pink and assorted colours of plastic, elephant shape or elephant designs on round buttons. I specified metal, and free postage. Sizes ranged from tiny shirt buttons to large pendants. Lots of them are small, such as suitable for charm bracelets. If you don't like alloy and are willing to spend more money, you can go for silver or gold plate. I found lots on Ebay, Etsy, 

Useful Websites
For buttons
Amazon
Etsy
Ebay


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