On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 18:51:54 -0700, Jim Thompson
wrote:

When I travel I carry one of those Buttoneer gadgets that "staples" a
button back on using tiny plastic straps.

You'd think someone would make a similar device for fixing a pant's
cuff that comes unstitched :-)

Is there such a thing?

...Jim Thompson

Back in the sixties, they were called 'bobby pins'.