PURPOSE: To obtain the dressing button excellent in workability and decorative ness by forming a metallic film by an electro-plating treatment after making the ground film of a conductive metal by electroless plating treatment on the button blank obtd. by cutting a free cutting Al stock.

CONSTITUTION: A button main body is formed by executing a cutting work on the free cutting Al stock having good machinability. The ground film 2 of conductive metal is coated by electroless plating treatment on the main body 1 then. On the ground film 2 further a metal film 3 is made by electroplating treatment. Therefore, the stock is easy to cut and leaves no burrs, etc., and the light dressing button whose completed product has a complicated shape or pattern is obtainable.