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Happy Shiny Button People
Posted by Lidian on August 26, 2008
More strange gifts for women! But this advertisement comes with a caution. Look what happens when you give a girl the jauntily-named Buttoneer! She will become a crazed button fanatic, stapling them to every avaiable surface – with the unfortunate results you see above. That poncho must weigh a ton, never mind if she whirls around and the poncho hits some innocent bystander.
Clearly, this is a younger version of Kathy, before she settled down in the suburbs with a big case of Artex.
We are all encouraged to attach many, many buttons to “a whole closetful of great-looking fashions.” And told that “with a little imagination and the Buttoneer button attacher, anything is possible.” Yeah, that is what this girl’s friends are worrying about. Anything is possible! She will be sneaking into their houses and attacking their closetfuls of great-looking fashions. Formerly great-looking, that is to say.
And then they will all be as one – the Button People! Doesn’t that just sound very 1970s? I’ll bet they go around singing about being happy, too. And handing out lots of buttons.
Tori Lennox said
I think I watched that Button People show…. Scary stuff.
Condo Blues said
OMG! My mom had a Buttoneer! Fortunately she wasn’t has Buttoneer happy as the woman in the ad. I wonder if the model’s Buttoneer obcession came before or after an altercation with a Bedazzler?
Condo Blues said
My mom used the Buttoneer to replace popped off buttons on shirts.
I have the Bedazzler. My friends and I totally made fun of my purchase, when I bought it. I originally got the Bedazzler when I was making a lot of historial costumes that had a lot of beadwork. I never used it though. Maybe I should have switched to building spangly jumpsuits for Elvis impersonators, then I’d have a much better use for it!
Kath Lockett said
You see, it started with the Buttoneer, but this then led to facial peircing.
‘Ol Kathy had been receiving just a bit too much cheek from her teenaged son one day, so she put down the latest poncho she was working on, rammed it at his face in order to shut him up and…
…. thus spawned a trend that makes me yearn for the simpler days of heavy ponchos and being able to knock down innocent bystanders merely be turned around in one.
retro fashion said
I have noticed classic garments always stay in style. Fashion brings out whatever emotion you are feeling inside. Whatever you are feeling, have fun with it and remember not to take yourself so serious. Don’t let someone predict who you are!
Bill said
It looks to me like her body has disappeared while she buttoned-away at everything in sight. Now she’s just a head in a poncho.
Augusto said
Oh dear. I thought you had miss-typed boutonniere. And I kept looking for the flower.
Patty said
I remember the Buttoneer commercials! I find that poncho scary. Well, I feel that way about all ponchos but that one is extra scary. (I love Augusto’s comments.)
Jane said
Hi, Thanks for stopping by my blog, I love all your ads especially the tampax one!!
Lois said
My mom had the Buttoneer. Like most such products, it didn’t live up to expectations. I also got the Ronco Rhinestone and Stud Setter (I think that’s what it was called), which was basically like the Bedazzler, and it rarely worked properly, either.