Dress Of The Day with Angela

I joined a new (to me) group on Facebook, called upcycling clothes. My husband thinks I have too many clothes. I have two solutions.  1I am hanging clothes over the bath. Bathroom washing line. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright. 2 I am putting them in the laundry bag because I have nowhere to store everything. 3 I already have hall hooks - for hats and coats. 4 I have wardrobes with hanging rails. 5 I have stacks of pull out plastic drawer. 6 On top of them I have plastic boxes with lids. Not as good as drawers.The lids are not see-through. The highest one cannot be reached. You have to lift the top two to get to the one underneath. Drawers are better. 7 I have hangers with multiple bars for trousers. 8 I have over the door hooks. They are useful. Until you overload them and they pull off.. 9 I have big cardboard boxes in storage with light weight tropical clothes from living overseas. 10 I have racks over radiators. I asked this question (shown in Italics) edited and improved an...

 Is Natural Best When Buying Fabrics? The comments often say, stop buying synthetics and go back to natural fibres.  Cotton must be good, surely? But moths are eating my cotton and wool clothes, even new ones. Do Moth Repellents Work? Perhaps they do. But not enough to save my clothes. I am using moth balls and insect sprays. However, the cotton clothes and wool get holes and stains faster than synthetics. But this is not my experience with accessories. Disintegrating Bags And Shoes When it comes to bags, belts and shoes, synthetics seem to diintegrate fast, even when you are not using the item. My shoes disintegrate. My Hotter shoes, fine on top, but the black thick soles crumbled. Synthetic Bags Disintegrate Yes, leather wallets disintegtae. Plastic folders holding bus passes and address cards will disintegrate.  Belts break into fissure and grow frayed around the edges. What are the solutions? Some companies offer discounts on new clothes if you return old ones which t...

Storing Old Clothes in the Old Days  In the good old days people used to store their winter clothes in a suitcase in the loft or attic in winter. The reverse took place in summer.  Storing Items In Garages Nowadays we recycle and collect clutter. Only a quarter of UK garages are used to store cars. Now cars are left in the front forecourt, and garages are used for storage, clothes, accessories, bric a brac. You need to keep moving clothes. Why? To be sure that moths get disturbed. Also so that the clothes do not get mouldy from damp. (American spelling moldy.) Avoiding Impulse Purchases I try not to go shopping for food. I postpone my trips to Tesco supermarket because it is right near a charity shop. If I shop for food, it is better to go out after the charity shop has closed.  Home Shopping The Americans have home shopping channels. You see items being demonstrated on TV and you buy them from home.  Of course you can sit at your desk and order online.  But wha...