10 Things Making You Look Cheap!!
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Sarah - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
Always pretreat the neckline of light coloured shirts, tops with diluted shampoo before washing. The grime from your skin (oils plus dirt, and it is worse if you sweat a lot and wear make-up it finds its way down in the skin). The grime is NOT removed by a regular wash, and once it builds up not even a hot wash with bleach will restore a white collar. One can see that with second hand white men's shirts (the collars and the sleeves).
You can do that even with the collars of jackets that need the dry cleaner. If a partial treatment and thorough rinse is possible. (needs some experience). The dry cleaner does not remove that kind of dirt well, it shows in coats that you wear for several seasons or for the wool pants (the inside of the waistband - for males for instance).
Those pants can almost always be washed at home (if you know what you are doing). Only jackets (of pant suits) are tricky, and heavy wool coats are rather a no.
I’ve also used dyeing to freshen up a faded item. I have a black linen shirt dress I’ve redyed a couple of times now because that’s cheaper than replacing.
Love to hear this Connie!
I love the colour of your jumper. And I don’t mean that in a ‘I saw the jumper before I saw you’ way 😄
Thank you 💙
You in this video = everything I love about the Irish.
Thank you, Sarah, for these valuable and inspiring tips.
Your ‘firm yet loving’ manner of delivery is unparalleled.
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Wow, thank you! So kind of you to say!
Thank you you are the only professional chanel realy I am learning the best way to wear
Thank you so much Basant! I'm happy your are learning from it!
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I wouldn’t have thought to dye my clothes. Great idea. 👍🏼
Glad you like it Laura! Thanks for watching!
Dye is tricky (chances are high that it will not turn out evenly so never do that if you really like the garment or if it is an expensive piece. If you do not care much about the outcome you can experiment. Also you should not use dye too often in your washing machine - and believe me doing it in a pot will get you uneven results more easily (even IF you happen to own a large stainless steel pot).
And even if the new colour is even AND IF it covers the stain (not necessarily, think oil based stains) - you cannot predict the shade, or what the dye does to the buttons or the zip. The thread will for sure keep the original colour, polyester thread does not pick up dye ... So if the thread is visible it could scream home-dye-job - as opposed to a polished look. If you have to change he buttons it gets expensive if you have to buy them, or at least you need to resow them, if the original thread stands out.
(normally buttons do not pick up dye, but I would not bet on it either).
A friend used dye (the one that is applied in the washing machine) and then finished the pieces with textil colours that you apply with a brush (to the surface to the fabric. They stay there even after washes and the fabric does not turn out stiff - so that works). These were wild camouflage patterns (the original was a uniform colour, and he started by using chlorine to bleach out a spotted design) - so if that is a look you want, that would certainly cover a stain and to a degree you can influence the colour (intensity and hue, if the first dye is not ideal you brush it up).
I would like to have a camouflage shirt but with summer colours (sage greens, clear green, grey). I guess I will have to make one, camouflage in collections but even in fabrics for sewing do not offer those colours.
and it is possible that the stain will STILL show. Another idea are embellishements. Lace, crochetet flowers. If you have the time and interest and it is a piece you love. And then there is the japanese art of darning clothes (visible). It is a mindset where the flaw becomes the feature (and is accordingly adorned). Will not work with a very elegant business like wardrobe, there the normal embellishments, embroidery will do more for you.
One thing I recommend: looking at your garments before you wash them (in good light - daylight ! some stains are not very visible in artificial light), pretreating all stains (oxgall is good for a lot of difficult stains, but it only works before washing). That will get you farther then getting the garment to the dry cleaner later, or any desperate actions after the fact. A washed-in stain is hard(er) to remove (even if it was a cool wash, and no ironing happened).
For delicate dry cleaner only pant suits, and wool coats, jackets, and silks with intense colours *_wound spirit_* is an excellent stain remover. (It can be used to disinfect wounds so it is not poisonous even though it is a volatile carbonhydrate, everthing hazardous was refined out of it. You can get it (or order it) in pharmacies, the lid has to be screwed on tight, it is a volatile substance. That means it evaporates very well, the vapours would do no harm but you are left with an empty bottle when you would need it)
It dissolves the stain (fat/grease based) the mess goes into the cotton ball, and the rest of the solution evaporates so fast, that it will not leave any shadow on the area that you dabbed - or next to that area.
I once had a beautiful, raspberry red curduroy pant and got black grease on it from a bicyle chain, I think it even got washed before trying to get rid of the stain. I will be forever grateful to the pharmacist who showed me the trick with wound spirit. (I did not know of ox gall then, and if a colour is so intense ox gall could remove some colour and that would ruin the piece: Ox gall rarely has that effect, I would be carefull with organic dyes or intense colours on silk. I think I had one or two cases where ox gall changed the dye - it stays a while on the stain and then you wash it - think at least 15 minutes.
So ox gall doing damage is very rare, I use it all the time. Did not matter with the 2 garments (where it had an adverse effect - 2 out of many, many applications), but if you have a valuable piece a test could be in order. Ox gall contains organic enzymes so in therory they could damage wool / silk fabrics (not the dye but the material itself) I never noted that effect, but I rarely wear silk and stains from quality wool are usually easy to remove if that happens early. So not too much experience with ox gall on the protein based fibres (Mostly on wool blends, I rinsed the treated area after 20 minutes and usually the stain was gone and no damage to material or original colour visible).
Wound spirit removed the black grease stains from the red fabric like magic and left no residue or shadow. You can also try it on tar (on a carpet). It is my goto for some types of difficult stains.
White towel (paper or cotton) under the area to avoid leaking. Some wound spirit on cotton wool, and then working the stain from the outside to the inside but no rubbing just dabbing. (One can test first on a spot that is not visible - but wound spirit never did any damage to a garment or a carpet floor, it might not always have helped with an old spot, but nothing worse than that. Like that it would remove colour or that the area that was dabbed would looked slightly different, which would mean creating another also very visible stain).
Great video and that colour that shade of blue suits you so well 😊
Thank you so much 🙂
Great points. Can you please make some videos for the rectangle body type?
Thanks Juhi. I believe I have a video on the rectangle. It's from a few years ago now. Might do an updated version soon though!
My cat makes holes in evvvverrryyy new top I buy with her tiny blessed claws 😫
Love her to death anyway, she is so cute😅
Are you cool tone.Bcz blue 💙 colour your wearing giving somuch radiant to you.
Thank you so much! I am indeed. I don't wear a lot of blue, usually pink! I'll start to curate more blue into my wardrobe!
Good quality belts. And do not be deceived by the label "real" leather. A good leather belt (that will age beautifully and will not crack) starts at 50 Euro / dollars. Minimum. All the other "leather" belts do have a backing of leather, but these are the cheap parts of the skins - and then they put spray paint on it. So of course they crack. And the customer could as well buy faux leather belts. - A tiny bit of oil or lotion could help to extend the life of the cheap belt before they start cracking - that is also good for the faux leather in cars.
(rhicinus oil if you have it - but else a tiny drop of lotion or even a tiny dab of vaseline will do).
Of course one can always save the hardware of cheap belts (it often looks nice) and try to use them for a fabric belt (woven material or diy from suede or thin leather) instead. Or even use it for a real leather belt if you can work with the material or find a shoe maker that goes along. Also often it is possible to change the plain buckle of belt made of good leather, you just have pick apart and then to recreate the sewing - and there a shoemaker could assist. Or if the holes are well defined you recreate the sewing manually with sturdy thread and a thirdy needle (and a thimble). I am talking about the line close to the end of the belt that keeps the buckle in place. The leather or fabric is in a double layer there.
Great tips!
Glad it was helpful!
Lovely blue top! Can you share the brand? I’ve been looking for sweaters with those little buttons on the cuff. Loved the video!!
Thanks Jessica. This is an old Zara top but it's something they do every year so you should be able to find in the shops now! Thank you for watching!
The shirt you are wearing looks amazing on you, just stunning!
I’m guessing I’m a cool summer and I bet that color would work for me too 😍
Oh thank you! Yes it would definitely work for a cool Summer! ☺️
One of the things that really bugs me is influencers that say things like "Just look at the fit!" And the garment is obviously too small. Anything that pulls, distorts the pockets, or opens so you can see the bra when buttoned don't fit correctly. I don't understand these influencers. Anyone can see the garment doesn't fit. Do they think the audience is that stupid? They will say anything to sell a garment.
Unfortunately that can be the case!