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Button number: 45

Name: Anna Symes

Age: 23

Entry: December 2003, Tunbridge Wells

This is a stylish sea blue-green button from the bottom of my Grandmother Iris’s button tin. There are two. She cut all these buttons off her old dresses and saved them. I never knew my grandmother. I love to look into this button tin and think about her. She died when my mother was 11. My mother tells me how glamorous and stylish she was, a strong character. I imagine she wore this button on a beautiful silky dress, covered in a floral pattern of rich gem like colours, the background of the same sea blue-green.