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Button Button
Category: Shopping Arts & Crafts Arts & Crafts [Edit]
318 Homer StMezzanine
Vancouver, BC V6B 2V2
Neighbourhoods: Downtown, Gastown
(604) 687-0067
- Hours:
Mon-Sat 10:30 am - 6 pm
- Price Range:
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$$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Street
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- No
14 reviews for Button Button
Review Highlights
14 reviews in English
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Review from Crystal H.
Vancouver, BC
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. -
Review from Jenna B.
Coquitlam, BC
5/3/2012
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 anime , 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. -
Review from Nicole F.
12/15/2011 1 Check-in Here
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. -
Review from Robin M.
8/16/2011
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.Listed in: My Gran Would Approve, Arting Around
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Review from Hilda L.
8/18/2011 1 photo
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. -
Review from Monica M.
1/30/2011
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.Listed in: Fibre-Lovers
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Review from Jessie J.
11/22/2009
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!Listed in: Reduce. Reuse. Recycle.
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Review from Cameron M.
Toronto, ON
11/21/2008
Button Button seems like an insane store. Literally all buttons, and just seconds away from Dressew, a store which also has a billion buttons. But there's a reason Button Button is so nice they named it twice: Fashion.
Dressew is fine and dandy if you want to make a costume, or something wacky and ostentatious but if you want to mend a nice garment or make something really high-end it's not always great. Dressew seems to cull most of it's stock from 1970s back orders so whenever I've tried to match a button on one of my shirts or tried for anything not purple and corduroy I've been screwed.
Thank heavens for Button Button though. They have everything from the overstated, gaudy fun stuff dressew also capitalizes in, to the quieter, simpler buttons you need for the day to day. If I had a kid who loved crafts I'd be in here every day probably trying to find fun things with them. It's definitely one of Vancouver's kookier stores and definitely worth checking out. -
Review from Anita C.
Vancouver, BC
6/11/2009
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! -
Review from Daniella F.
Vancouver, BC
3/19/2011 1 Check-in Here
Everyone in this teeny shop is helpful, and there's so much choice! If you don't feel like amazing plastic buttons in the Dressew basement, this is the shop for you. I heart the sailor theme buttons, the veggie ivory and bamboo! There's also a neat selection of crafty buttons made out of that clay stuff you put in the oven.
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Review from Amanda M.
8/22/2008
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.
Listed in: Goods not services
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Review from Victoria R.
BC
11/21/2008
"Loosen up my buttons babe!" I think that's a Pussy Cat Dolls song, but this button store makes you want to start sweing buttons on everything. It's almost a hobby store to me, because I don't know or do anything with buttons, just like I don't yet play boardgames, but to many it's where they come to replenish their supply of buttons. That's because they sew. The variety of buttons is enormous. Think of anything and they'll have a button for it. I would actually love to make a button necklace and now I can.
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Review from Andrea L.
Vancouver, BC
8/23/2009
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.
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Review from sherry g.
Vancouver, BC
3/12/2009
Great news! Our favourite button shop is re-opening in early April, almost right next door to their old shop. We've waited long enough! You've probably seen us around town, buttonless and sad, because no other source will do.
