How the button changed fashion | Small Thing Big Idea, a TED series

Translator: Camille Martínez Reviewer: Krystian Aparta

Translator: Līna Birže Reviewer: Ilze Garda

There are no bad buttons, there are only bad people.

Nav sliktu pogu, ir tikai slikti cilvēki.

How does that sound? OK?

Ko teiksiet?

[Small thing.]

[Maza lieta.]

[Big idea.]

[Liela ideja.]

[Isaac Mizrahi on the Button]

[Aizeks Mizrahi par pogām]

No one knows who invented the button.

Neviens nezina, kurš izgudroja pogas.

It might have shown up as early as 2000 BCE.

Iespējams tās parādījās jau 2. gadu tūkstotī p.m.ē.

It was decorative when it first started,

Sākumā tās izmantoja kā dekorus,

just something pretty sewn onto your clothes.

kā kaut ko skaistu, ko piešūt drēbēm.

Then about 3,000 years later,

Aptuveni pēc 3000 gadiem

someone finally invented the buttonhole,

kāds beidzot izgudroja pogcaurumu,

and buttons were suddenly useful.

un pogas pēkšņi kļuva noderīgas.

The button and the buttonhole is such a great invention.

Poga un pogcaurums ir brīnišķīgi izgudrojumi.

Not only does it slip through the buttonhole,

Poga ne tikai izslīd caur pogcaurumu,

but then it kind of falls into place,

bet tā arī ieņem savu vietu.

and so you're completely secure, like it's never going to open.

Un tu vari būt pilnīgi drošs, ka tā nekad neattaisīsies.

The design of a button hasn't changed much since the Middle Ages.

Kopš viduslaikiem pogas dizains nav īpaši mainījies.

It's one of the most enduring designs in history.

Tas ir viens no nemainīgākajiem dizainiem vēsturē.

For me, the best buttons are usually round.

Man vislabāk patīk apaļās pogas.

There's either a dome button with a little shank,

Tās ir vai nu kupolveida pogas ar nelielu kājiņu,

or there's just this sort of round thing with either a rim or not a rim,

vai arī tās ir vienkārši apaļas, ar tādu kā stīpu vai bez tās,

either two holes or four holes.

ar diviem vai četriem caurumiem.

Almost more important than the button is the buttonhole.

Iespējams, ka par pogu svarīgāks ir pogcaurums.

And the way you figure that out is:

To aprēķina šādi:

the diameter of the button plus the width of the button,

pogas diametrs plus pogas platums,

plus a little bit of ease.

plus vēl mazliet.

Before buttons, clothes were bigger --

Pirms pogu izmantošanas drēbes bija lielākas,

they were more kind of amorphous,

tās bija bezformīgas,

and people, like, wriggled into them

un cilvēki tajās it kā ielocījās

or just kind of wrapped themselves in things.

vai arī vienkārši ietinās.

But then fashion moved closer to the body

Bet tad mode pietuvinājās ķermenim,

as we discovered uses for the button.

atklājot, kā var izmantot pogas.

At one time, it was the one way to make clothes fit against the body.

Kādreiz tas bija veids, kā padarīt apģērbu pieguļošu ķermenim.

I think the reason buttons have endured for so long, historically,

Manuprāt, iemesls, kāpēc pogas tik ilgi palikušas nemainīgas,

is because they actually work to keep our clothes shut.

ir tas, ka tās patiešām satur apģērbu kopā.

Zippers break;

Rāvējslēdzēji saplīst.

Velcro makes a lot of noise, and it wears out after a while.

Līplentes rada troksni un pēc laika vairs nav izmantojamas.

If a button falls off, you just literally sew that thing on.

Ja notrūkst poga, to vienkārši piešuj atpakaļ.

A button is kind of there for the long run.

Pogas darbosies ilgtermiņā.

It's not just the most elemental design ever,

Tās ir ne tikai viens no pamatdizainiem,

it's also such a crazy fashion statement.

bet arī neprātīgs modes kliedziens.

When I was a kid, my mom knit me this beautiful sweater.

Bērnībā mamma man uzadīja skaistu džemperi.

I didn't like it.

Man tas nepatika.

And then I found these buttons,

Bet tad es atradu dažas pogas,

and the minute the buttons were on the sweater, I loved it.

un brīdī, kad pogas bija piešūtas, man džemperis iepatikās.

If you don't have good taste and you can't pick out a button,

Ja jums nav labas gaumes, un nevarat izvēlēties pogu,

then let someone else do it, you know?

tad labāk ļaujiet to darīt kādam citam.

I mean that.

Es to domāju nopietni.