AKiCiF: Help Rolanni take care of her clothes
Friday, October 8th, 2010 08:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rolanniQuite some while ago, I took "Girl," which was at that point in history a required course, failed, and never retook it. Yes, I have lived most of my adult life with an Incomplete on my record, though in practical terms, it matters about as much as calculus, another skill I managed never to acquire. Mostly, I get along fine without both, but occasionally my lack of Feminine Wiles(tm) catches me up, as it has now.
I have purchased a very nice shirt to wear to the book launch (here's a picture). When it arrived, I tried it on, decided that I liked it very much, that it did fit, and hung it up on a hangar. It turns out that this is not how I ought to be treating this kind of fabric, but I'm at a loss as to what else to do. If I fold it up and put it away with my t-shirts, the tie is going to get crushed, and the whole thing will likely get crumpled, and -- sigh.
Suggestions on how to store this thing until its hour in the sun arrives -- and after, assuming the party falls (just a little) short of Inspiring the Bards?
Abundant Spanish Aunts.
I have purchased a very nice shirt to wear to the book launch (here's a picture). When it arrived, I tried it on, decided that I liked it very much, that it did fit, and hung it up on a hangar. It turns out that this is not how I ought to be treating this kind of fabric, but I'm at a loss as to what else to do. If I fold it up and put it away with my t-shirts, the tie is going to get crushed, and the whole thing will likely get crumpled, and -- sigh.
Suggestions on how to store this thing until its hour in the sun arrives -- and after, assuming the party falls (just a little) short of Inspiring the Bards?
Abundant Spanish Aunts.
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Date: 2010-10-09 12:54 am (UTC)Also, it's very pretty. :)
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Date: 2010-10-09 02:23 am (UTC)Also, it's very pretty. :)
It is, isn't it? And it feels Really Nice.
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Date: 2010-10-09 03:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-09 05:11 am (UTC)*goes down the clothing racks pawing each item*
Back when I used to help out in the coat check at the Opera House, there was a guy who had a full length mink coat...with chinchilla lining...Helen and I never did figure out a polite way of asking if we could roll in his coat.
*mmhmm mink on the outside for looks, chinchilla on the inside for feel*
Have you tried modal bedsheets?
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Date: 2010-10-09 07:02 am (UTC)I prefer cotton bedsheets. Higher thread count, the better. They seem to last longer that way.
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Date: 2010-10-09 02:58 pm (UTC)Sandwashed silk pajamas...now if they'd just make them with soft side in and smooth side out.
All my sheets now are modal...amazingly soft and supple, and much cheaper than 400 thread count cotton. (Bed Bath & Beyond's PureBeech brand)...comforter covers are still HTC cotton.
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Date: 2010-10-09 01:56 pm (UTC)*faints*
Back when I was still in Baltimore, I worked for a woman (a Maine native, by coincidence) whose winter coat was sealskin - made with the skin on the outside, and the fur on the inside. She thought the folks who wore their coats fur out were Completely Daft, because How Could You Stay Warm *that* Way? And besides, when it snowed, the fur got wet...
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Date: 2010-10-09 11:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-09 03:23 pm (UTC)Is that Trolleypup, late of the Longhair LJ group? If so, I've missed your photos. LJ is a small place sometimes.
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Date: 2010-10-09 04:14 pm (UTC)Not late, just mostly inactive.
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Date: 2010-10-09 11:56 pm (UTC)Your photos not only had wonderfully long hair, but lovely locations! I was always happy to see a post from you.
LJ is a great place for crossing paths with people.
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Date: 2010-10-10 08:31 am (UTC)Than thank you.
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