Men spend a great deal of time hitching up their trousers. There’s a perfectly good solution available.

It seems that the ability to sew a button back onto a garment is a dying skill. While giving my daughter a lesson on sewing a button onto a shirt I told her about my childhood fascination with my grandmother’s button box. It contained buttons of every kind and it seemed that my grandma could tell me a story about every one of them. We found ourselves wondering about the origin of the button.

This idea can be adapted to suit almost anyone. The jars are easy to make and they are very useful.