Button Button

Wide and interesting selection. I went today and there were two people in the shop.
Both helped track down the perfect buttons for my baby sweater.
Wonderful shop!

Great little button shop! Lots of variety and really friendly service.

Love this shop! I get a nostalgic feeling while in this place. Wonderful buttons — I have a hard time choosing as there are so many options. The owner is a big help.

Just adjacent to Dressew. Colleen is very helpful and has a lot of non-​plastic buttons. I tend to buy buttons that I don’t even need because they are so pretty.

Entering this shop, I felt like a child entering candy land. You can find all sorts of buttons imaginable. There are buttons made of glass, ceramic, bones, metal, plastic, and so on. Beside elaborate decorative buttons, they do carry regular ones as well.
The owner is helpful and you may feel free to ask her for help if you cannot make up your mind or cannot find the sort of button that you’re looking for.

As a knitter, I’m always looking for something interesting to finish off a project. Where I live, I’m very limited — Fabricland and my LYS; sort of an all-​or-​nothing problem.
Button Button was wonderful. There are so many options here, you can lose hours in a delicious, delirious haze of indecision. The owner is totally prepared for this — she even has slide-​out counters, like the little old-​fashioned cutting boards in my wartime apartment building, on which you can lay your sweater for button deliberation.
I was looking for something special for a sweater I was knitting for my daughter’s upcoming Confirmation ceremony. The sweater is a pretty, lace-​panelled aqua cashmere blend, with an asymmetrical opening. My daughter is 12, so I had to consider age-​appropriateness as well as aesthetic.
I think the owner of the shop was nearly as keen as I was, to make sure the choice was right. She hunted through the little button drawers and boxes, and came back to me with two or three lovely options. In the end, I chose a little half-​inch lucite button in aqua, with a rhinestone in the centre. They were $ 1.60 each (which is actually quite reasonable), and I needed 11. It was entirely worth it – the buttons add such a pretty, special-​occasion look to the sweater.
I also picked up a set of nifty red wooden buttons to replace the cheap plastic set I had just put on a sweater for me… I’ll add a photo when I’ve got the buttons changed over.
One of the best things about this store is that it really gets the creativity flowing. I saw about seven things that instantly inspired me to build a whole project — even, in one case, a whole outfit — around that particular button. Budget dictated that I leave those ones in the shop for the time being, but when I need something new, I’ll remember where to find them.

How did I not know about this place? Was I sleeping all the times I’ve walked down here or do I just not go down here at all? This place has been around for 19 years and I was shocked to have discovered it today. I lose and or break buttons all the time on my blouses and now I have a place to get some replacements for some basic buttons. I found these awesome skull buttons to re-​vamp a boring old Value Village shirt to conform into my personal style. The prices on some of the specialty ones are $$$, especially if you’re changing the whole set, however, simple replacements are very reasonable. Customer service was awesome.

The have EVERY KIND OF BUTTON you’ve ever imagined.
It is so overwhelming that going alone will be a mistake, you’ll need a friend to help you decide what to buy.

You might think this is *just* a button store, but you’d be wrong. It’s a magical, magical place. I could spend entire afternoons here.
I was looking for some buttons to de-​girlyfy a baby dress I’m knitting (the baby-to-be’s Momma is not a girly girl, but wanted something pink), and I found some adorable pink buttons with skulls and crossbones that will do just the trick.
I also found buttons with pin-​up girls on them, dachshund buttons, green ceramic buttons, buttons made of wood… There’s even a big tub full of button soup that you can scoop up to your delight. Really all I can say is OMG BUTTONS!
Lovely service, all the buttons you could conceivably ever need. Just go. Seriously.

Came in here looking for a particular button from an old dress and I ended up finding exactly what I needed. This doesn’t sound that crazy, but it was a very peculiar button. I ended up buying a lot of weird buttons as well.
BUTTONS!

This store is magic. I’ve been wanting to get new buttons for my coat for a while after a few fell off. Hence, a trip to button button was in order. This shop is very small, and up a flight a stairs and therefore, is definitely not wheelchair friendly.
They have every sort of button imaginable from fabric, wood, and leather. They have adorable buttons for kids, and the young at heart. They even have animé, and cartoon character buttons. Sadly neither an-​pan man, or felix buttons were the right size for my coat. They have all sort of buttons that would be great for costumes, or custom clothing.
I eventually bought some orphan buttons for 20 cents that sort of matched my original ones!
Most of the buttons here are a little expensive but, they are buttons you could probably not find anywhere else. A definite must store to check out for the avid sewer, arts and crafts adventurers.

This is the best store… ever.
After browsing the bland button selection at Dressew, a schoolmate suggested we head over to Button Button. Before we were even all the way through the door we were freaking out. Every button you could ever possibly need is here.
My pal found these perfect little green and brown wooden flower buttons that matched her mossy winter coat perfectly! My other friend was going nuts over the selection of nautical themed buttons. I was all over the place and am also the most indecisive person on the planet, but I ended up with some lovely shiny black glass buttons for $ 1/​piece.
I loved the big chest of drawers that had all the vintage/​antique buttons in it! And all the baby themed buttons.
I also saw some beautiful white shell buttons that I want to go back for, as soon as I make something that they’d work with. Amazing.
Attached to the back of the door is a small selection of buttons with pinup girls on them, and ones that say things like «White Trash». Yep.

Parking on this block of Homer might be a bit of a challenge, but these little circles of all kinds, more than make up for it. From top to bottom, this tiny store need not be big to hold hundreds (probably thousands) of buttons.
Wood, leather, ceramic, glittery, vintage, novel, kitschy, classy, or just a plain old shirt button… it’s like a crafter’s/seamstress/tailors heaven. I got a chance to talk to the owner today who gave me some sewing advice. Turns out you can tell a lot about the quality of a suit by its buttons. If the button is indenting on the fabric around it, it means the button is sewn too tightly. The remedy? Loosen up already!
As for me, I’ve never sewn a button in my life, but I’m about to learn. It might be small, but dressing up a boring black wool jacket with flair in a button shape is my idea of an arts and crafts project.

I don’t have a sweet tooth so I was never one of those kids who squeal at the sight of a candy store, beg their parents to let them go in, then proceed to spend hours oggling each candy. But I now have an idea what that must feel like after stepping foot into Button Button.
I made the mistake of coming here about half an hour before they close. I could spend hours in here. This store is not very big, but they’ve packed hundreds of buttons in here. All shapes and sizes, various colors and materials. The buttons are organized somewhat (by material? style?) so if you’re just looking to replace a lost button it shouldn’t be too difficult. And I’m sure the staff can help you. But I was there looking for inspiration for a new project, so I took the time to look at each and every single type they have. Half an hour was not enough time.
Button Button lacks ventilation so be warned if you come on a hot summer day.

Button, button! Who’s got the button?!
Well, I do actually. You might even say I have a plethora of buttons. Jars upon jars upon bags in boxes of buttons fill my closet craft-​ish space (disclaimer: I do NOT have a «craft corner» nor am I «crafty.» I am merely a person who has a soft spot for random crap that will eventually become something whole and awesome. ALSO, my closet is huge and can afford a space to hold such madness /​end disclaimer). But there’s always room for more. More plastic, more gold, more jewel tones, more buttons please!
On paper this store should *not* be able to exist. They literally sell buttons. Just buttons. You need a button to match the porcelain puppies on your favourite vintage top? They’ve got it. A wood toggle to replace a lost piece on your heavy wool coat? They’ve got it. What about some handmade button insanity crafted with twigs and spices? Well, yes, of course they’ve got it!
Buttons. Get your buttons here. But that’s it. Just buttons.
** button word count: 14.

I love Button Button.
Replace a missing button — the owner is incredible and will be able to help you find everything/​anything you need.
I was looking for a suitable button for a hat I was knitting and the owner patiently brought out button after button after button until we found the perfect artisan button (made by sisters in Argentina or something like that). Such great service that I felt kinda bad for only buying a $ 3 button.
There are also some button-​idea books and bag-​o-​buttons to buy bulk. Every shape and theme you can think of to adorn anything! Fantastic shop and I’m so glad they’ve got a new location just around the corner from their old place.

Haven’t been downtown much since I stopped working there, so I hadn’t realized Button Button has reopened. Was so excited to realize that it has!
The glory of Button has always been that it provides the opportunity to find the perfect button you didn’t know you were looking for. With the help owner Colleen, I have successfully (and with flair) replaced the buttons on a red vinyl rain coat (vintage red plastic), a green velvet jacket (green-​glazed ceramic), a locally-​designed black winter coat (iridescent green shell).
I think the $ 4-​a-​pound bags of random buttons would make a great gift for a crafty kid. And digging through the «button soup» is always fun — even Douglas Coupland has been known to get his button fix that way!

I love this store. I would pass it every day on my way home, but never really had the reason to go until I started knitting a scarf and wanted to add a big button to it. So, I finally found an excuse to visit the store the other day. The lady at the store is very helpful. When she saw that I was looking for a button for my work-​in-​progress scarf, she asked me to bring it out of my bag and lay it on a pull-​out board while she went around the store to look for buttons that would go well with my scarf. It was so hard to decide, but I finally decided on a lovely huge wood button. They have all kinds of buttons — from plastic to glass to metal, from vintage to modern.

I couldn’t believe my eyes when I walked into this store. On my way to Dressew I spotted the window with the words «button button». Walked right in and it was all buttons!
but it wasn’t like. a big pile of buttons all in random boxes thrown all over the place. it was. the most organized i’ve ever seen buttons organized!
They seriously have every button you can imagine. like, even if you arent looking for a button. you have to see how cool it is!
So if you’ve lost that button on that jacket. and you still love the jacket head to button button and get a whole new set of buttons!

There is something so deliciously old school about a store that sells only one, very specific type of item. Vancouver has several of these: Drexoll for board games, a pen shop downtown but my very favorite is Button Button for, you guessed it, buttons. The store sits on a quiet corner in Gastown; a giant spool of thread marks its entrance. And because its inventory is only buttons, the range available is mind boggling. There are vintage buttons of porcelain, resin and wood to new plastic ones, and for lovers of kitsch there are those shaped like bananas, monsters or cobs of corn. I need buttons because I make crafts; I love buttons for their tiny punches of flare.