White Oaks eagle. (White Oaks, N.M.) 189?-190?, 1898-02-10
COLLA1 LC.IO,4S.
Jzcd for Misunderstanding purposcs {
Men "a fnr NCHr

well Cs for Wear,
AS shirts are made nowadays pretty
much every man wears one or more
20yar buttons. Diamond collar buttons
are not so much worn as they were,
though some are still sold; they cost
from eight {; ID ten dollars each up to
$40 or $50. The fine collar button now
most generally worn IS of plain yellow
gold, and sells at frcm $3.50 to five
dollars. \ great number of silver col
lar buttons are sold, and with the fail
in the value OF silver these are now
cheaper than ever.
The number of plated collar buttons
sold is enormous, They are rlade in
great variety. There are plain, plated
buttons and plated buttons with eel
luloid backs. and buttons with pearl
backs and plated tops, and buttCAs with
plated backs and pearl cops. There are
iewclry factories devoted solely to the
man @facturc of plated collar buttons
aud cuff buttons. The annual prCGuc-
tion in this country OF plated collar but
tons. such as are sold at from five to
% cents each, is about l.C0O, COO gross, or
two f3r each person in the United
States.
Among the finer kinds Of cheap collar
buttons are those OF pearl, which are
imported from Austria. or bore collar
buttons and of agate collar buttons,
which come frcTn France and Germany.
AID are far cheaper, there are imported
an@uallv great numbers, many mil
lions, There arc now produced in this
country great numbers CT collar but
tons Of celluloid. There are collar but.
tons mace cf q composition; cellar but
tons Of wood, iacqucrcd, and buttons OF
I iron.
Enormous as the consumption of col
lar buttors is, for the purpose indicated
| by thCir name, that consumption is
E25,'l compared with the consumption
for manufacturing purposes.
In such uses the cheaper collar but
tons arc consumed by hundreds of mil-
lions annually. All shirt manufac-
turers and manufacturers Of Womens
waists use them in the manufactured
garments. a shirt band is not pinned:
| ii is fastened with a collar button, and
cellar button is commcnly put in
each waistband. If the shirt opens
| front and back two collar buttons are
| put in the neck, so that three CT four
| collar buttons are used in ever shirt.
Many launGerics send back Numbered
shirts with the cellar rot pinned, but
secured by q collar button; customer
wouii get il this manner from the laun-
! dry, in the course of a year, as many
collar buttons as he sent shirts; more if
lie were shirts that opened back and
| front.
Most Of the collar buttons used for
these purposes are very cheap; many Ct
them rlarvclously cheap. J.rdcr this
head come the commoncr kinds of bone
! buttons, The agate collar bu'tGrs, and
| thc cheaper metal buttons. The metal
buttons are al made in this country.
We can't compete with the cheaper
labor Of the European countries in the
! production cf the pearl, bone and agate
collar buttons, nor can thcy compete
with us in the production Of the vari-
| GUS kinds Of metal buttons. There arc
various grades and styles in these
C.raper buttons. There are agate but
tons with git tops, the cheap metal
b"tt:rs are some Of them rilt finished
and some s.lvered, and some steel IL.
ishcd. TIE cheap collar buttoGs are
sold by the great gross. Great numbers
,f them, foreign and domestic. arc soli
at such prices that (hCir cost is cent
a dozen, or considerably less, but even
AT such prices their cost is q consider
able iteI.2 - C;.pcnse % TIE large manu-
facturcr There are manufacturers Of
shirts ard waists who use millions Of
these cellar buttons annually.
Sore cCHar buttons used on high
priced shirt waists are articles OF Jew
clry manufacture, made wil'l glass set
tinrs in imitation OF jewels; such but.
tons are sold in sets at about one dollar
q dozen ects.
TIE total consumption Of collar but.
tons in this country fcr al purposes
proha' " exceeds ,ouo, eco, annually
and the amount expended fer thea,
probahlv Is not very far below $10,00O,,
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