‘Botões’

Buttons

They were offered by the Godmother, who was also responsible to give the shroud if the little girl became a ‘little angel of the Lord’. So, if – bad luck – the child died the ‘botões’ would be sold to pay for the dress that would ‘ take her to heaven’! if such fatality didn’t occur, as the girl was growing up, the ‘botões’ or little ‘botões’ would be substituted by the Godmother, in such a way that, when the child became a young lady she’d be the owner of the so desired ‘Brincos à Rainha’