"I Keep Losing Buttons!"

[pbutts]

I'm sure all the above are good suggestions, but, personally, I use piper's black waxed hemp to sew my buttons on my argyle jacket and vest. It's something most pipers have in their pipe case. My buttons never come off.

I’ll probably try the suggestion to sew down the cloth of the epaulets, but the black wax hemp seems like a good suggestion.