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

[otterb.livejournal.com]

"I often think, if I had had an equal epiphany about calculus"

I had one about statistics, the third time I took it (the third variation along the way in different academic programs, not the third time through the same course). The light bulb came on. Oh, look, this can be used to get answers to questions I would like to answer.

My "Girl" class was home ec, in junior high, where we cooked things nobody wanted to eat and sewed things nobody wanted to wear. But it was no less comprehensible than most of the other classes. One did what one was told to do; it wasn't supposed to make sense.

[baobrien.livejournal.com]

"...we cooked things nobody wanted to eat and sewed things nobody wanted to wear..."

So true! I have no memory of having learned anything worthwhile in those classes, and in my first Home Ec class, my mother had me bring home my sewing project and corrected what the teacher told me to do, which involved a certain amount of ripping out and redoing. She is and was an excellent seamstress and started teaching us fun things like embroidery when we were very small. My grandmothers made cooking fun and taught some of the more challenging things, like handling yeast and egg whites - and adapting recipes. (I was lucky)

[romsfuulynn.livejournal.com]

I learned to make baking powder biscuits in Home Ec. My daughter learned to make funnel cake!

[(Anonymous)]

Those sound great. It's possible for the class to be worthwhile. My daughter recently had a cooking elective in middle school where they made stir-fry, tacos, cake ... lots of good choices. Also, co-ed, not something the girls learn to do while the boys take shop or mechanical drawing. There is progress, if slowly.