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

Translator: Camille Martínez Reviewer: Krystian Aparta

Translator: Matej Divjak Reviewer: Nika Kotnik

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

Ni slabih gumbov, so samo slabi ljudje.

How does that sound? OK?

Kako to zveni? OK?

[Small thing.]

[Mala stvar.]

[Big idea.]

[Velika ideja.]

[Isaac Mizrahi on the Button]

[Isaac Mizrahi o gumbu]

No one knows who invented the button.

Nihče ne ve, kdo je izumil gumb.

It might have shown up as early as 2000 BCE.

Lahko, da se je pojavil že 2.000 let pr. n. št.

It was decorative when it first started,

Na začetku je bil okrasen,

just something pretty sewn onto your clothes.

samo nekaj lepega prišitega na vašo obleko.

Then about 3,000 years later,

Potem pa je čez kakšnih 3.000 let

someone finally invented the buttonhole,

nekdo končno izumil gumbno luknjo

and buttons were suddenly useful.

in gumbi so naenkrat postali uporabni.

The button and the buttonhole is such a great invention.

Gumb z gumbno luknjo je odličen izum.

Not only does it slip through the buttonhole,

Ne samo, da zdrsi skozi gumbno luknjo,

ampak se potem nekako postavi na svoje mesto,

but then it kind of falls into place,

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

tako da ste popolnoma varni, kot da se ne bo nikoli odprl.

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

Dizajn gumba se od srednjega veka ni kaj dosti spremenil.

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

Je eden od najbolj trajnih dizajnov v zgodovini.

For me, the best buttons are usually round.

Zame so najboljši gumbi običajno okrogli.

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

Lahko je v obliki kupole z majhno zanko,

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

ali pa neke vrste okrogla stvar, z robom ali brez njega,

either two holes or four holes.

z dvema ali štirimi luknjami.

Almost more important than the button is the buttonhole.

Skoraj pomembnejša od gumba pa je gumbna luknja.

And the way you figure that out is:

In način, na katerega jo izračunate, je:

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

premer gumba plus širina gumba,

plus a little bit of ease.

plus še malo dodatka.

Before buttons, clothes were bigger --

Pred gumbi so bila oblačila večja -

they were more kind of amorphous,

bila so nekako bolj brezoblična,

and people, like, wriggled into them

ljudje pa so se nekako zmigali v njih

or just kind of wrapped themselves in things.

ali pa so se na nek način zavili v stvari.

But then fashion moved closer to the body

Potem pa se je moda približala telesu,

as we discovered uses for the button.

ko smo odkrili možne uporabe gumba.

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

V nekem trenutku je bil to edini način, da se obleka prilega telesu.

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

Mislim, da je razlog, da so se gumbi ohranili tako dolgo, zgodovinsko gledano,

is because they actually work to keep our clothes shut.

v tem, da dejansko delujejo in nam držijo oblačila zaprta.

Zippers break;

Zadrge se polomijo;

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

Velkro povzroča dosti hrupa in čez čas se obrabi.

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

Če gumb odpade, ga dobesedno samo prišiješ nazaj.

A button is kind of there for the long run.

Gumb je tukaj nekako na dolgi rok.

It's not just the most elemental design ever,

Ni samo najbolj osnoven dizajn vseh časov,

it's also such a crazy fashion statement.

je tudi noro vpadljiv modni dodatek.

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

Ko sem bil majhen, mi je mama spletla ta čudovit pulover.

I didn't like it.

Ni mi bil všeč.

And then I found these buttons,

In potem sem našel te gumbe

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

in takoj, ko so bili gumbi na puloverju, mi je postal všeč.

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

Če nimate dobrega okusa in ne znate izbrati gumba,

then let someone else do it, you know?

prepustite izbiro nekomu drugemu, veste? Resno mislim.

I mean that.