Meet Dalton Stevens The Button Kin:
Dalton Stevens of Bishopville, South Carolina, won the title of King of the button after 15 years of sewing and gluing thousands of buttons of all kinds of items.
Button King story began one night in 1983 when his insomnia unable to sleep. At the time, television was two o'clock in the morning, so he had to find something to pass the time. Search by his old tricks, he took old denim overalls and began to sew buttons on it. Two years and ten months later, Dalton was still a chronic insomniac, but his suit was covered with 16,333 buttons and weighed 16 pounds. Incredible as it may seem, it was only the beginning of his incredible experience with buttons. More images and info after the break...
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Button King story began one night in 1983 when his insomnia unable to sleep. At the time, television was two o'clock in the morning, so he had to find something to pass the time. Search by his old tricks, he took old denim overalls and began to sew buttons on it. Two years and ten months later, Dalton was still a chronic insomniac, but his suit was covered with 16,333 buttons and weighed 16 pounds. Incredible as it may seem, it was only the beginning of his incredible experience with buttons. More images and info after the break...
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