There’s no need for skull or coffin shaped buttons for a garment to look gothic. Though it certainly helps.
To best employ the archetypal fasteners, the chosen button should fortify the semblance of the garment into an enunciated style, wether it be classical or modernistic, like in other decorative arts, prevalence rests on formation, substance and color relation.
Following image shows the design I selected for the Red Shirt; a semitransparent nickle button, which ricochets the silky crimson through its clefts, instead of competing with it; along with the carved-wooden buttons on the White Shirt, bringing copious shades of the base color while enhancing the its organic look; the color-taking nacre-stone buttons on the Green Shirt and, lastly, the Frock Coat’s high contrasting decorative buttons, mimicking cast-iron but actually made out of plastic.
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