There are no bad buttons, there are only bad people. How does that sound? OK?
Neexistujú zlé gombíky, len zlí ľudia. Ako to znie? O. K.?
[Small thing.] [Big idea.]
[Malé veci.] [Veľké nápady.]
[Isaac Mizrahi on the Button]
[Isaac Mizrahi o gombíkoch]
No one knows who invented the button. It might have shown up as early as 2000 BCE. It was decorative when it first started, just something pretty sewn onto your clothes. Then about 3,000 years later, someone finally invented the buttonhole, and buttons were suddenly useful.
Nikto nevie, kto vynašiel gombíky. Objavili sa možno už 2 000 rokov pred Kristom. Najprv boli len ozdobou, niečím pekným, čo sa našilo na šaty. Asi o 3 000 rokov neskôr, niekto konečne vynašiel gombíkovú dierku a gombíky boli zrazu užitočné.
The button and the buttonhole is such a great invention. Not only does it slip through the buttonhole, but then it kind of falls into place, and so you're completely secure, like it's never going to open. The design of a button hasn't changed much since the Middle Ages. It's one of the most enduring designs in history.
Gombík a gombíková dierka sú skvelými vynálezmi. Nie len, že prekĺze cez dierku, ale hneď tam aj zapadne a máte istotu, že sa nikdy neodopne. Dizajn gombíkov sa od stredoveku veľmi nezmenil. Je to jeden z najstálejších dizajnov v dejinách.
For me, the best buttons are usually round. There's either a dome button with a little shank, or there's just this sort of round thing with either a rim or not a rim, either two holes or four holes. Almost more important than the button is the buttonhole. And the way you figure that out is: the diameter of the button plus the width of the button, plus a little bit of ease.
Guľaté gombíky sú podľa mňa najlepšie. Je vypuklý gombík s malou stopkou alebo akýsi okrúhly s okrajom či bez. S dvomi alebo štyrmi dierkami. Gombíkové dierky sú skoro dôležitejšie než gombíky. A to zistíte takto: Priemer gombíka plus jeho šírka, plus trochu miesta.
Before buttons, clothes were bigger -- they were more kind of amorphous, and people, like, wriggled into them or just kind of wrapped themselves in things. But then fashion moved closer to the body as we discovered uses for the button. At one time, it was the one way to make clothes fit against the body.
Kým neboli gombíky, šaty boli väčšie – skôr beztvaré. Ľudia si ich navliekli alebo sa do nich zabalili. Móda sa začala približovať k telu s objavom gombíkov. Kedysi to bol jediný spôsob ako vytvoriť priliehajúce oblečenie.
I think the reason buttons have endured for so long, historically, is because they actually work to keep our clothes shut. Zippers break; Velcro makes a lot of noise, and it wears out after a while. If a button falls off, you just literally sew that thing on. A button is kind of there for the long run. It's not just the most elemental design ever, it's also such a crazy fashion statement. When I was a kid, my mom knit me this beautiful sweater. I didn't like it. And then I found these buttons, and the minute the buttons were on the sweater, I loved it.
Myslím si, že gombíky vydržali tak dlho preto, že nám vedia šaty poriadne zapnúť. Zipsy sa kazia. Suché zipsy sú hlučné a hneď sa opotrebujú. Ak odpadne gombík, len ho prišijete naspäť. Gombík je tam nadlho. Nie je to len ten najzákladnejší dizajn. Je to bláznivý spôsob, ako módou ukázať, kto ste. Keď som bol malý, mama mi uštrikovala nádherný sveter. Nepáčil sa mi. Potom som našiel gombíky a v okamihu, keď boli na svetri, zbožňoval som ho.
If you don't have good taste and you can't pick out a button, then let someone else do it, you know? I mean that.
Ak nemáte dobrý vkus a neviete si vybrať gombík, nechajte, nech to spraví niekto iný. Myslím to vážne.