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Clothing in the mid-19th century tend to have much larger mumbers of button than is the case with modrrn clothing. This meant two to three times as many buttons in given lengths. The buttons ere commonly spaced much closer together. We have no idea why that was. This varied greatly. You can see that some images show what seem like normal spacing. Others had buttons with limited space between the buttons. We see this in countless 19th century images. We have little information on the early-19th century, but it us very notable at mid-century. We see counless images where this shows up. A good example is Martin Wedin in the 1850s. Here the buttons are only moderately close together, but we see some in which they are almost packed together. We have no idea why so many buttons were commonly used. It might be because so much clothing was home sewn. And many home sewers did not give mugh thought to this. Perhaps there was some reason to use so many buttons, we just not know. There may be some other reasons. Hopefully readers will have some insights on this.
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