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.

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[rolanni.livejournal.com]

My sister -- six years behind me -- took shop, which worked out well for her. Our father had gone to vocational school and been trained as a carpenter, built just about everything in our house, and had young taught both of us the basics, so he could have that extra pair of not-completely-clueless hands when he needed them :)

[saffronrose.livejournal.com]

My FiL, who was a relatively plain carpenter--houses were easier than fine furniture--and I never thought to train me for that while he was still able to do carpentry.

My father's father, dead before my parents met, was a cabinetmaker, but my father didn't seem to have acquired any skills in that department. He did repair AF planes, but that's as far as it went.

During one hypomania, the meme of doing fine Art-Nouveau-style woodwork caught me, but ended before I could do anything about learning. It has popped up now and then, but what time would I have for it?