Changing dress jacket buttons

[auld argonian]

Problem I have is that I'd like to change the bright silver buttons for the antiqued ones but I find that I'd have to start slitting the lining to get at the cotter pins that hold them on. Is it usual that they sew them in and don't leave some pre-made access to the button shanks?

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[piperdbh]

The diamond-shaped buttons are hard as the devil to get through a buttonhole. However, if the buttons are purely decorative, and you don't have to push them through a buttonhole, then I'd think they'd look pretty snazzy.