I’ve almost finished packing my boxes and will be moving in the next few days so things will be quiet for a bit. In the meantime, a guest posting from Stu Bloom from Rave FabriCare on garment maintenance. If you ever had questions about maintenance, garment shine, or those nasty double-creases down your trousers, this may interest you. I’ll be back once I’ve unpacked in the U.S. Hi Jeffery: There are 26,000 dry cleaners inRead More
Month: November 2010
Well, it’s done. I hope it fits. See the origin story here… https://robertjeffery.us/tuttofattoamano/a-different-kind-of-sport-coat/
Usually the dissections performed for this blog are of a destructive but educational nature. This time, I am called to tear something apart only to make something new again. This project has been in the pipes for quite some time now, but my imminent departure has mean that it must be completed in the next few days. But let’s back up a bit. I got a call from a retailer who was looking for aRead More
Most tailors have a tenuous relationship, at best, with dry cleaners, because of the things many do, in the name of expediency. I won’t get into the details because my blood pressure is plenty high these days, but I want to share what was, until now, a hidden treasure trove of information about garment maintenance. Hidden to me, anyway. I had heard of Rave FabriCare and about some of the extraordinary lengths to which theyRead More