AKiCiF: Help Rolanni take care of her clothes

[rolanni]

Quite 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.

Comments

your very pretty new shirt

[mamoses.livejournal.com]

I assume that the fabric is viscose rayon. If it is a knit, hang it on a wide and extra-long hangar to avoid the shoulder-pooches that using a too-short and/or narrow hanger will leave.

Rayon fibers are weak when wet. Consequently, instructions for cleaning are usually pretty conservative. You can dry-clean if desired, or wash by hand if you are compulsive about directions, but rayon should be just fine washed in your machine in cold water using the delicate cycle. A knit can be dried in the dryer, which would be desirable if the fabric is heavy when wet, as rayon often is. More delicate fabrics, or woven fabrics that wrinkle, can be removed from the washer immediately and hung on hangers to dry.

And by "girl", do you mean the home economics classes prevalent at the time we were going through school? Or the general acculturation/indoctrination passed along by mothers, older sisters, girlfriends and media sources such as movies, TV shows, magazines, advertising?

Re: your very pretty new shirt

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

I was referring to HomeEc, mostly, where I was dismal. The rest of the wide-culture stuff kind of rolled off me because I was trying to survive some other fairly bad things, and was having a hard enough time trying to figure out what it meant, and how, to be human, much less a girl.

Re: your very pretty new shirt

[elbales]

I have terrible luck with rayon and dryers. My rayon clothes always shrink when exposed to heat. Woe.