Care & Repair
Packing creases are made by pressure, not by folding
Clothes come out of a suitcase wrinkled because they spent a day compressed in a fixed position, which…
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Care & Repair
Washing, storage and repairs — the difference between five years and one.
Care & Repair
A garment that still smells after washing has a residue problem
Odour lives in oily deposits and the bacteria feeding on them, which is why a normal wash removes visible…
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Care & Repair
Hard water quietly ruins laundry and most people blame the detergent
Dissolved minerals react with washing products and deposit inside the cloth, and the greying, stiffening…
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Leather cracks because it lost water, and oil is only half the answer
A dried-out hide fails at the points where it bends, and understanding what is actually leaving the…
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A wet jumper must be dried flat because water makes it a heavy fabric
Knitted cloth has no internal structure holding it in shape, so a garment full of water hung from a hook…
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How a seam is finished decides whether a garment frays itself apart
The stitching that holds two pieces of cloth together is only half the job, and what was done to the raw…
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The care label is a legal minimum written to protect the manufacturer
The symbols sewn into a garment describe a treatment the maker is confident will not destroy it, which is a…
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Care & Repair
Where you keep clothes matters as much as what you keep them in
Damp, light and still air do slow damage to garments that are not being worn at all, and most of it is…
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