How to Care For Your Clothes?

The basic thing you should practice is:

Do not fling your clothes on to any old chair, or crush them into the wardrobe.
Always hang up dresses, coats and jackets.
Fold jumpers and blouses
Keep hankies, scarves and tights together

This way you will be able to find things with the minimum of fuss and bother. Have neat and tidy drawers.
Keep small things like handkerchief, tights, gloves, and socks in an old gift or shoe boxes.

Use the deeper drawers for bulky items such as sweaters
Use the narrow drawers for keep things that can get crushed easily
Put a perfumed sachet amongst your clothes to give them a delicate fragrance
Divide your drawers up with pieces of thick cardboard or plywood
Put all jeweler into a jewel box - tiny items can so easily get lost

How to keep your clothes clean

As soon as you get in from work or college, change into older or casual clothe because lots of accident s can happen to your clothes such as spilling nail polish or remover, coffee or food. If you do get stains on your clothes - always remove them at once. Of course, some stains can only be removed by experts, a dry clean.

Here are some solutions for removing common stains:

Black coffee - Stretch the stained area over a bowl. Pour boiling water through and wash thoroughly.
Milk, white coffee, cocoa - Make a paste with borax and water - spread on the soiled areas and leave overnight. Wash thoroughly the next day.

Grease and oil - Place the spot on blotting paper. Make a ring around it with cleaning fluid such as carbon tetrachloride on cotton wool. Rub the area gently with the cleaning fluid. Keep moving the spot to a clean place on the blotter, and repeat until the spot is removed. Dry thoroughly with clean cotton wool.

Rust - Stretch the stained area over boiling water, and rub lemon juice over the stain. Rinse well.

Fruit Stains - Soak in cold water then stretch the stained area over an empty bowl, and pour boiling water through it from above.

Blood - Soak immediately in cold salty water; then wash in warm soapy water - rinse and dry.

Wine Stains - Hold the soiled area in a little boiled milk until the stain has almost vanished. Now wash in the normal way. Or use a mixture of salt and lemon juice and rub into the area and then wash thoroughly.
Tea - Soak overnight in borax and water. Then wash in the normal way.

For cotton and linen fabric, rub the affected area with raw lemon and allow drying under the direct glare of the sun. Otherwise, place the garment in a warm place until dry.

Remember to remove wet clothing as soon as possible. Shake it and place it on a hanger to dry in a warm place. Stuff wet shoes with newspaper and dry them away from heat or they may crack and go out of shape.

Autor: Carole Sowe

I am an Image Consultant and have been providing advise on image to individuals as well as Corporates. I find many individuals are very concern about their appearance and would like to enhance their image but not sure how to do it. Visit for tips.

Added: February 23, 2010
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