About The Button Queen | The UK's Leading Button Shop
The Button Queen, founded by the late Toni Frith, has been trading for over 60 years. Now run by her son Martyn, his wife Isabel and their daughter Kat, in Pembrokeshire West Wales, it has remained a family business.
Starting on Portabella Road selling antiques, Toni soon found that there was a huge market available in the form of American button collectors visiting London. To reach this market, Toni and other specialist dealers set up Collector's Corner, where she continued until the early 1960's. She moved to Marlborough Court, just before it took off as place of great interest for "Young Fashion".
After leaving Collector's Corner for Marlborough Court, the shop then left for 19 Marylebone Lane. The Button Queen now resides at 76 Marylebone Lane, just across the road from its old premises. The button shop has always been a mecca for the creative and fashionable. We have sold buttons to fashion designers and students, Saville Row tailors, film and T.V costumers and even opera and theatre costumers.
The Button Queen prides itself on the diversity of its collection. As well as an extensive range of vintage and modern buttons, our button shop offers button covering and dyeing. With buttons dating back to the 18th Century, our massive archive is jam packed with collectors items. We also have a large range of buttons suitable for period costumes. With suppliers all over the world, we have imprinted ourselves on the global button industry, and have a reputation to match. With a collection of various types and styles, we have a button that suits every garment and every person.
While buttons are our main focus, we also sell belt buckles, coat toggles, cuff-links, and much more.
We aim to provide all our customers with a button to suit their needs. Whether you need that perfect button to finish off your blazer, you’ve lost a toggle on your coat, or your favourite pair of jeans is now bereft of its button, we have you covered. We stock an extensive range of modern buttons, vintage buttons dating back as far as the 18
With over 60 years of experience in the button industry, our expert knowledge allows us to give our customers an insight into the history and the techniques used when making their buttons, making The Button Queen experience a more authentic and personal one.
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The Button Queen is home to the most impressive array of Buttons, antique to modern, cheap to precious. This shop is so completely and utterly dedicated to buttons, no wonder dressmakers come from across the country visit The Button Queen
I can often be found at the window of The Button Queen, my nose and hands pressed to the window, marvelling at the wonders inside
**We have now relocated to West Wales, the London store is now closed. We are happy to help with your enquiry and we continue to offer the same services**
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