Category Archives: Clothing Care
How to Hide Hanging Ribbon in Your Dress
You know how dresses (particularly halter neck, strapless or one shoulder dresses) often have hanging ribbon attached at the side seams inside the dress? As helpful as it is when putting your dress on a hanger, it’s really annoying when … Continue reading
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How to Hem Jeans
It’s really quite simple to take up the hems of your jeans so I thought I’d put together a tutorial to show you how to do it. Firstly make sure your jeans are washed before you take them up (cotton … Continue reading
How to Fix Broken Straps
I don’t get my clothes dry-cleaned unless I absolutely have to. I consider myself pretty savvy when it comes to looking after my clothes to I’ll often just hand wash delicate items to avoid having to go to the dry-cleaner. … Continue reading
How to sew a blind hem
This is a follow on from my post “How to hem your slacks”. In this post I’m going to show you how to blind hem your slacks with a simple hand stitch. The same stitch can also be used to … Continue reading
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How to hem your slacks
My Gran never called pants, er, pants. Nor did she call them trousers. It was always slacks. I find the word ‘slacks’ mildly amusing, therefore, in this post I shall be referring to the bifurcated covering of your posterior and … Continue reading
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12 ways to give your clothes a long and happy life
They deserve it don’t you think? Ever wondered how a beautiful 1950s vintage dress still manages to look so amazing over 50 years later? Well you can bet that it was good quality to begin with, and its previous owner … Continue reading
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