In this category I'll write down some Tips & Tricks how to maintain your clothing. This in order to extend your personal wardrobe.
I'll also provide some tips I use in my personal bargain hunting of vintage designer clothing
This title says enough. As precise I take care of my clothes, A
few times I screw up a precious delicate piece of knitwear. One day I had
thrown one of my favorite silk/wool cardigan already in the machine, to do a
delicate wash. I got distracted by something, left the laundrymachine as is for
that moment. Two days later I decided to give my bedding an extra good wash of
90 degrees…? 90 degrees what on earth was I thinking. At the end of pulling the
bedding out of the machine a tiny baby cardigan was left, fluff everywhere,
completely lost all it radiance, form and appealing. 
The same thing happens again about a week ago with my beloved Rick Owens wrap knitted vest,
dress. This time without 90degrees the same endresult. All I muttered was oh no
not again. In the meantime all washing tips scrolls through my head, especially
grandmothers tips and tricks. Somehow this can be redone, how was it again you
could I fix this problem. It will take a lot of work. But even this tiny
shrunken piece can get back to it’ s orginal shape.
So all you have to do is
this:
When a sweater has been shrunk after a wrong washing . Let the
shrunk sweater soak in distilled water for a night. With 1/2 a cup of tartaric
acid, you can get this at the pharmacy. The next day rinse again with distilled
water. Pull the sweater back in shape and let the sweater dry between 2
towels...
Another solution which might seem to help is BEANS
Cook beans in a pot with water, remove the beans and put the
garment in the now cooled water. Put the garment flat on a towel to dry.
Or to to add a cup of glycerin in distilled water and then the
same process as the beans.
I haven’t deciced yet which solution I find the most attractive
but more important which one should work out for the best. I’ll let you know
which option I have chosen and will show you the final result
Continuing this subject here are some tricks I have tested myself
and these are truly working.
Polishing silver jewelery.
I hate polishing silver when it has become all black. The next
trick is so easy to be done and your silver will sparkle and shine again like
new.
I put a piece of aluminium foil in a tupperware basket then I put
all my silver jewellery, which
needs a polish, on top of it. I’ll throw a lot of cleaning soda beware NO baking
soda. Cover all the jewellery with it. Then boil some hot water and through the
hot water into the tupperware basket. It starts sizzling and bubbling and it
doesn’t smell that nice. When the bubbling has ended throw away the black
colored water and rinse off your silverwear with fresh tap water And dry them
off wih a soft cloth. All the silver is shiny without any hard work done.
Black Garments:
Would you like your black clothing that stays black?
Pour into a large bucket or your tub of boiling water and add a couple of ivy garlands.
Leave it in there for three hours and then remove the plants. Allow to stand over night, in the morning everything rinse and let it dry. After this you put the garment in the washer with some vinegar.
And your black garment is black again!
Be careful with the other laudry the first washing will still release some blackness.
Be sure you wash it with other dark items.
Another trick you can do during the whole season is to put some
steradent with the white washing and it comes out more white.
The same results is when you put some glass cleaner, the one your
using for your dishwasher, add it with the laundry and you wash will come out
white.
TIPS
AND TRICKS BY MI
ANOTHER
SUBJECT TO TALK ABOUT ARE MOTH.......
To be more precise the clothing moth. Once before I got to work just
about to to leave my house, I saw this gold little moth flying. Which made me
almost hysterical. Completely distracted and to have experienced some real
difficulties to focus myself I could breath again when I set foot back at home.
A colleague had asked me just before closing time to have a drink. All I could
yhink about was no way, F*** that drink for now, safe it for later. There
is this major important thing to do. Safe my assets. Even I had to turn my
place upside down, in order to find the source of these devastating creatures.
All my delicate silk and cashmere pullovers, cardigans, dresses etc which I
have been so careful with all my life, destroyed by moths....just the thought
made me sick in my stomach. At that time I had recently moved in and
finally had set everything in my wardrobes, now I could start all
over again. Strangely it was during wintertime, not the time to have moths
actually. By the time I took a pile of clothes outside, I couldn't see a
thing. Later when my arms starts to hurt of beating of my clothes, no
flying moth was spotted or to find the source. When you see a clothing moth
flying, the damage has already been taking place and somewhere there are some
scary creatures eating from your clothes, such a horrorible thought. 
The impact was huge, to have seen that flying moth that afternoon.
Nowadays I try to destroy (sorry) these moths. I have to guard my clothes which
demands drastic methods.
Every silk, cashmere, merino wool pullover, cardigan, dress etc.
etc. I put them in the freezer for at least 20 days up to a month.You have to
leave it there 10 days. I know I can behave exaggerated (remember my first
story). Wrapped in plastic ziplocs and leave them there, some pieces still lay
in there, completely forgotten by Mi.
Then instead of plastic clothing covers. I've put every delicate,
precious clothing piece in cotton covers. Which makes it very difficult to
remember what is actually in every cotton cover. they all look alike. Not to
mention there isn't an unit cohesion inside my closet.
For extra care, I wrap all delicate, fragile, vintage- and
or new pieces made of silk in acid-free paper before I'll put
them in their cotton covers and stack them up in an unrecognizable pile
of clothes.. 
In every hidden corner there's some moth-paper which attracts moths (only if you have any in your house).
Mothballs are just to avoid them and keep them away. They won't dispel the moths.
Almost every time I'll leave the house for a few hours. I spray moth,- and these flying bugs poisoning spray around.
And then the most important part, in every precious cotton cover, between the pile of pullovers, just everywhere if possible, I've put some BAY-LEAVES. Moths seems to hate them.
The consequence's all dried up bay-leaves everywhere through my whole apartment.
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To embellish
your dress can be done pretty easily. I'll show you an example how you can
embellish your own clothes and it provides you something to pay attention for
when you'll visit a fleamarket a next time.
I had once
bought a simple plain black (transparent) dress, so sorry no designerbrand (
what was I thinking:-) )
And in one of
my hunting and scrolling over fleamarkets I'd found these closing parts made of
pewter. They are little ornament creatures to me. I find them so nice and
already pictured in my head how to use it, when I purchased them.
I like to have an element repeated in the same outfit.
Because this dress is transparent I like to wear a slip dress which is not in the same color as the dress. But to wear it in an opposite color, it will still shows some of the original color of the slip-dress underneath.
For this dress I always wear it with a white color slip-dress.
And I'm not bothered by the length of the hem. Which in this case it shows a big part of the slip-dress's hem.
