Garment Care
How to Store Summer Dresses Over Winter Without Damage
You pull your favourite linen dress out in May and find yellow marks under the arms, a sharp crease that will not shift, or a...
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Hana tests washing and storage routines on linen and silk and reports what actually keeps them looking new.
Garment Care
You pull your favourite linen dress out in May and find yellow marks under the arms, a sharp crease that will not shift, or a...
Fabrics
You see a soft, drapey dress online, the label says "modal blend" and you have no idea whether that means it will feel like...
Garment Care
A wool dress that comes out of the wash a size smaller, thick and stiff like a felted slipper, cannot be saved.
Fabrics
You see a soft blue shirt dress labelled chambray, it looks exactly like faded denim, and the price is the same.
Travel Wardrobe
You unzip your case after a twelve-hour journey and the dress you planned for dinner looks like it spent the night in a fist.
Garment Care
The care label says dry clean only, the dry cleaner charges 15 pounds a time, and the dress has a faint deodorant mark you...