To dream of sewing bright shining buttons on a uniform, betokens to a young woman the warm affection of a fine looking and wealthy partner in marriage.
To a youth, it signifies admittance to military honors and a bright career.
Dull, or cloth buttons, denotes disappointments and systematic losses and ill health.
The loss of a button, and the consequent anxiety as to losing a garment, denotes prospective losses in trade.
Most often the button in your dream is a button on a piece of clothing, rather than a button that you push.
Button or buttons on clothing represent something from your physical, or outer, self .
Note if you were buttoning or unbuttoning, and, from there, attempt to obtain meaning.
Unbuttoning generally represents an opening up of your emotions or ideas.
You may be leaving yourself open to new possibilities as you are letting go of old thoughts and ways of doing things.
Alternatively and on a positive side, buttoning up may reflect a need to conserve and to pull inward, to “button” your lip or to restrain yourself in some way.
The more negative interpretation of buttoning up may be that you are currently feeling bound, restricted, or lacking some type of freedom.
