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

[saffronrose.livejournal.com]

*Some* of mine do. It's mostly the raw silk skirts, made for me in a double circle design (beautiful when I move, and no gathers, so it slims me a bit) that bleed long after construction.

[eseme]

Ah. For me, it's the batiks1

[saffronrose.livejournal.com]

I stopped buying and even looking at the lovely quilting fabrics (of which Balinese batiks number) which had metallic printing on them, as that printing seldom lasted past two cleanings.

[eseme]

None of the clothes I have bought have had metallic patterning. But I can't imagine quilting with batik (though I have seen it at JoAnns and even quilting shops) as it is simply not colorfast.

Stunning, yes. But not colorfast.