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Elegant New Shooting Jacket, Johnsons of Elgin Tweed, Made in England
In Affordable Elegance, Classic Dressing, Classic Elegance, Classic Elegant Dressing, Classic Jacket, Classic Men's Coat, Classic Style, Clothing Protection, Dressing Elegantly, Dressing in Elegant Fashion, Dressing Man, Elegant Dressing for Men, Elegant Men's Clothing, elegant men's fall fashion, Elegant Men's Style, Elegant Menswear, Elegant Style on 25/07/2011 at 5:18 amElegant Organdy Apron
In Aprons, Clothing Protection, Elegant Aprons, Elegant Entertaining, Elegant Gift, Hostess Gift, Jessie Steele Day Gift Idea, Let's All Wear Aprons, Mother's Day, Organdy Apron on 22/04/2011 at 7:00 am |
| A fancy, cotton organdy Grace Apron by Jessie Steele is a wonderful Mother’s Day present or hostess-gift. And it ties at the waist, where Intelligent Design intended our clothing to be anchored. Imagine! |
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In Aprons, Clothing Protection, Elegant Aprons, Elegant Entertaining, Elegant Gift, Hostess Gift, Jessie Steele Day Gift Idea, Let's All Wear Aprons, Mother's Day, Organdy Apron on 22/04/2011 at 7:00 am>
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| A fancy, cotton organdy Grace Apron by Jessie Steele is a wonderful Mother’s Day present or hostess-gift. And it ties at the waist, where Intelligent Design intended our clothing to be anchored. Imagine! |
Let’s All Wear Aprons!
In Apron Pattern, Aprons, Clothing Protection, Cookery Tools, Elegant Aprons, Elegant Dress and Duster by Butterick Retro Patterns, Kitchen Implements. Aprons, Marimekko, Protective Clothing, Tools on 14/11/2010 at 11:01 am
Let’s All Wear Aprons!
In Apron Pattern, Aprons, Clothing Protection, Cookery Tools, Elegant Aprons, Elegant Dress and Duster by Butterick Retro Patterns, Kitchen Implements. Aprons, Marimekko, Protective Clothing, Tools on 14/11/2010 at 11:01 am
Protecting Your Clothes from Moths
In Classic Style, Clothes Line, Clothesline, Clothing Care, Clothing Protection on 16/06/2010 at 5:39 amM-J Says: Protect Your Clothing from Moths and Other Insects in Summer
Make sure your clothes are completely clean before putting them away for the summer. Moths, beetles and silverfish are attracted to food particles, stains, body oils and perspiration left to sit in the cloth or fabric.
Don’t wash your clothes with fabric-softeners, or put them away with starch in them if silverfish are a threat, because these elements will lure them.
Cedar blocks, cedar oil, and lavender sachets may repel moths. Sew some lavender into cotton envelopes and set them in your closets or drawers. Add a few drops of lavender oil to the inside when your sachets need freshening. Cedar chips may be bought in little fabric bags, and you can amplify their efficacy by sprinkling them with cedar oil. Cedar and lavender are pleasing to humans, and not-so-attractive to wool-hungry insects, which will also eat silk.
No one likes the scent of old-fashioned moth balls. They only belong on moths!
To kill any larvae present in your wool clothes and sweaters, put the clothing in plastic bags and freeze them for twenty-four hours before storage. Remove, drying off the bag with a towel. You may choose to keep the clothing in these plastic bags. Then, put the items in your cedar closet or in an airtight storage bin. Now, say “Toodles” to moths and other clothing-munchers for the season, as they find oodles of good eating elsewhere.
Copyright M-J de Mesterton ©2010
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Caring for Your Precious Shirts
In Alexander Kabbaz shirtmaker, Caring for Clothes, caring for men's shirts, Classic Clothes, Classic Clothing, Classic Style, classic woman's clothes, Clothes Line, Clothesline, Clothing Care, Clothing Protection on 16/06/2010 at 5:31 amWashing and Drying Your Shirts
A well-made shirt can cost $500.00 or more. That is an investment to protect. Your shirts will last much longer if they are washed by hand and hung to dry. Don’t use so much detergent that it takes a rinsing marathon to remove it. “A little dab’ll do ya”, as the old Brylcreem jingle said. Ideally, one would hang shirts on a clothesline, upside down, with clothespins. This keeps pinch-marks off the important areas of your shirts. The sun will dry them in no time. Alternatively, one could hang them indoors, perhaps out-of-sight behind the the shower curtain, on hangers. A sturdy spring-rod, placed inside the shower area for the purpose of hanging clothes to dry will not interfere with your existing shower-rod. If you don’t want to get hanger-marks on the shoulders, just put wash-cloths under them, over the ends of your hanger. The worst thing to do, even if you wash your shirts in cold water in the gentle cycle, is to dry them in a machine–doing so will quickly degrade your shirt, which will die an angry death before its time. My husband and I have shirts from France and England that are twenty years old, and in perfect condition.
An electric, energy-consuming dryer is an enemy to high-quality clothing. In fact, dryers shrink clothes and wear them out quickly; lint is composed of fibers that a machine robs from your clothes. You’d be surprised at how swiftly shirts dry naturally, and when they are just a wee bit damp, they’re easy to iron. In cases of stubborn collar and cuff soil, when hand-scrubbing fails, you can still wash your white shirts in hot water, soap, and a little bleach if necessary, as long as they are rinsed well, and then hung to dry. (Bleach alternative may be a better choice, if you can get it to work on stubborn stains.) Bleach is to be used only after stain-removal steps like soaking in Zote soap or Octagon (shirtmaker Alexander Kabbaz recommends Octagon for hand-washing his works of art) have been attempted without success. Always use as little bleach as possible, diluted before adding to wash-water, and only on white shirts. Bleach has a corrosive effect on your shirt’s fibers. The sun will do some natural bleaching of white cotton. Save costly energy and prolong the life of your shirts by hand-washing and sun-drying them.
Giving your precious shirts to a dry-cleaner or other laundry service is wasteful. They crush buttons and machine-dry the poor things. Do clothes hanging on a line outdoors conjure up bad images for you? Too bad, because it is one of life’s simple luxuries to be able to dry a beautiful, well-made shirt in the sun–some of the best people do it. Believe me, it’s not remotely infradig to care for your own shirts. After all, who cares for them more than you do?
~~Copyright M-J de Mesterton, May 2008
