Buttons
Bright buttons sewn on a uniform mark, in the old books, the warm affection of a fine and worthy person — small fastenings standing for a bond carefully made. The dream tends to touch the little acts of attentive care that hold a connection together, and to ask what affection is being stitched, button by button, into our life.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for buttons, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To dream of sewing bright shining buttons on a uniform, betokens to a young woman the warm affection of a fine looking and wealthy partner in marriage. To a youth, it signifies admittance to military honors and a bright career.
Dull, or cloth buttons, denotes disappointments and systematic losses and ill health.
The loss of a button, and the consequent anxiety as to losing a garment, denotes prospective losses in trade.