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

Translator: Camille Martínez Reviewer: Krystian Aparta

Translator: Ina Nguyenová Reviewer: Nela Kolčáková

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

Neexistujú zlé gombíky, len zlí ľudia.

How does that sound? OK?

Ako to znie? O. K.?

[Small thing.]

[Malé veci.]

[Big idea.]

[Veľké nápady.]

[Isaac Mizrahi on the Button]

[Isaac Mizrahi o gombíkoch]

No one knows who invented the button.

Nikto nevie, kto vynašiel gombíky.

It might have shown up as early as 2000 BCE.

Objavili sa možno už 2 000 rokov pred Kristom.

It was decorative when it first started,

Najprv boli len ozdobou,

just something pretty sewn onto your clothes.

niečím pekným, čo sa našilo na šaty.

Then about 3,000 years later,

Asi o 3 000 rokov neskôr,

someone finally invented the buttonhole,

niekto konečne vynašiel gombíkovú dierku a gombíky boli zrazu užitočné.

and buttons were suddenly useful.

The button and the buttonhole is such a great invention.

Gombík a gombíková dierka sú skvelými vynálezmi.

Not only does it slip through the buttonhole,

Nie len, že prekĺze cez dierku,

but then it kind of falls into place,

ale hneď tam aj zapadne

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

a máte istotu, že sa nikdy neodopne.

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

Dizajn gombíkov sa od stredoveku veľmi nezmenil.

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

Je to jeden z najstálejších dizajnov v dejinách.

For me, the best buttons are usually round.

Guľaté gombíky sú podľa mňa najlepšie.

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

Je vypuklý gombík s malou stopkou

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

alebo akýsi okrúhly s okrajom či bez.

either two holes or four holes.

S dvomi alebo štyrmi dierkami.

Almost more important than the button is the buttonhole.

Gombíkové dierky sú skoro dôležitejšie než gombíky.

And the way you figure that out is:

A to zistíte takto:

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

Priemer gombíka plus jeho šírka,

plus a little bit of ease.

plus trochu miesta.

Before buttons, clothes were bigger --

Kým neboli gombíky, šaty boli väčšie –

they were more kind of amorphous,

skôr beztvaré.

and people, like, wriggled into them

Ľudia si ich navliekli alebo sa do nich zabalili.

or just kind of wrapped themselves in things.

But then fashion moved closer to the body

Móda sa začala približovať k telu

as we discovered uses for the button.

s objavom gombíkov.

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

Kedysi to bol jediný spôsob ako vytvoriť priliehajúce oblečenie.

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

Myslím si, že gombíky vydržali tak dlho preto,

is because they actually work to keep our clothes shut.

že nám vedia šaty poriadne zapnúť.

Zippers break;

Zipsy sa kazia.

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

Suché zipsy sú hlučné a hneď sa opotrebujú.

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

Ak odpadne gombík, len ho prišijete naspäť.

A button is kind of there for the long run.

Gombík je tam nadlho.

It's not just the most elemental design ever,

Nie je to len ten najzákladnejší dizajn.

it's also such a crazy fashion statement.

Je to bláznivý spôsob, ako módou ukázať, kto ste.

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

Keď som bol malý, mama mi uštrikovala nádherný sveter.

I didn't like it.

Nepáčil sa mi.

And then I found these buttons,

Potom som našiel gombíky

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

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,

Ak nemáte dobrý vkus a neviete si vybrať gombík,

then let someone else do it, you know?

nechajte, nech to spraví niekto iný.

I mean that.

Myslím to vážne.