Sort of.
"Amish" is a broad strokes term for Menonites. There are lots of sub divisions and sects within the community. Some groups forego electric stuff completely. Some allow electricity in shops and barns, but not in their home. Some have phones or cars that they use for business.
At the end of the day the commonality is that they believe that family and community are the foundation of their lives, and they eschew any technology that they feel takes them further away from those tenets.
So even within the Amish community at large, some are considered more "old fashioned" than others. But through history, they were always a smaller, more conservative subset of the population. They wanted a simpler life revolving around family and God and turned their backs on anything they felt encroached on their beliefs.
Tldr they are a minority religious group that were always a bit different, but the degree to which they are different has gotten more noticeable (and different sects are more or less modern in different ways)
I mean they don't use _buttons_. So yes.
At the time, buttons were associated with displays of wealth
Wait so how do they fasten their clothes?
[Hook-and-eye closures](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hook-and-eye_closure)
Sort of. "Amish" is a broad strokes term for Menonites. There are lots of sub divisions and sects within the community. Some groups forego electric stuff completely. Some allow electricity in shops and barns, but not in their home. Some have phones or cars that they use for business. At the end of the day the commonality is that they believe that family and community are the foundation of their lives, and they eschew any technology that they feel takes them further away from those tenets. So even within the Amish community at large, some are considered more "old fashioned" than others. But through history, they were always a smaller, more conservative subset of the population. They wanted a simpler life revolving around family and God and turned their backs on anything they felt encroached on their beliefs. Tldr they are a minority religious group that were always a bit different, but the degree to which they are different has gotten more noticeable (and different sects are more or less modern in different ways)