Aaaaargh! Button sticks!! Those horrible things were still around when I went through Cranwell in 1968. The joys of Brasso and Duraglit - and picking the residue out of the crowns with a matchstick....
Then along came 'Staybrite' (sp?) buttons. First they were flat, then 'high dome' in design.
But then we started wearing the scruffy woolly pully - and buttons became largely a thing of the past except when wearing No1s for parades, weddings and AOC's bollockings.
Super thread, cliff - do think about getting a book published!