To ensue you get the optimum length of wear from your clothes and the best return on your investment busy, you need a good routine looking after them.
- After wearing your tailored garments always brush with a quality bristle clothes brush.
- Always hang your clothes on the correct shape hangers with plenty of space to avoid crushing and creasing.
- Use an electric trouser press to keep the crease in your trousers.
- If your clothes are creased after travelling, either hang in a bathroom with plenty of steam or press steam onto the garments with a steam iron.
- Do not let the base of the iron touch the fabric as this will gloss the material.
- After steaming, make sure that the garments have dried out before wearing otherwise they will crease again very easily.
- Dry clean no more than three times a year. With its use of chemicals, dry cleansing prematurely ages clothes and can break down the fusing in a jacket, so that the jacket appears wrinkled.
- Press frequently. Invest in at trouser press, if you don’t already own one, to make your sits look their best
- Freshen suits with a bi-monthly steam bath; e.g.: just hang them in a steamy bathroom A few hours hanging outside in fresh air also helps rejuvenate the fibres.
- Shaped wooden hangers, as opposed to wire ones, help your suits retain shape. Leave outside your wardrobe to breath. A suit can absorb up to 1pint of water during one wearing.
- Empty all pockets, put out the flaps, button the jacket and make ample space in the wardrobe before hanging the suit. Allow two to three days rest between wearing for maximum life.
- Better cottons do not require starch to look fresh after laundering and ironing.
- iting weighting eleven ounce or less per yard
- Don’t dry clean-ideally, ties should be unstitched and cleaned open, and restitched afterwards.
- Remove spots with dry cleaning fluid on a white cloth. Clean from the outside into the centre of the spot.
- Hang the tie in a steamy bathroom to regain its shape if it is crumpled.
- Polish before they get desperate; best when shoes are warm as they absorb polish better
- Check soles and heels regularly, and, as necessary, have these attended to by a good cobbler with real leather, not plastic replacements
- Store your shoes on shoe trees to prevent curling toes and wrinkled uppers
- Check the labels for the care codes.
- Always dry clean all the pieces of an outfit at the same time, even if one part is not dirty.
- Remove garments from wire hangers as soon as possible and put on a correct a shape hanger, otherwise the shoulders and pads could become distorted.
- When collecting a jacket after cleaning check that the shoulders pads are not twisted.
- Avoid dry cleaning too often as this will shorten the life of your garments.
- Check the labels for the care codes.
- Button shirt fronts and turn the collars into the garment. This will prevent the collar points from wearing away when in contact with the metal drum of a washing machine or dryer.
- Always wash light and dark colours separately.
- Use any stain removal materials very sparingly. Do not rub too hard as you will be pushing the stain further into the fabric causing the stain to be permanent.
- If in any doubt do not attempt to remove the stain but consult a reputable dry cleaner for advice as soon as possible before the stain dries into the fabric.
For advice please get in touch with us on michaela@joyofcolour.com or on (+44) 0780 3 139 755 to book a Men Image Consultation to find out what body shape, proportion and scale.
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