Journal Category: Garment care
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How to store cashmere through a London summer
Every September the same garments arrive at our counters: a favourite jumper with a scatter of small holes across the front, a cardigan that smells faintly of the drawer it lived in, a scarf that has lost its softness. None of it happened in winter. It happened in the four or five months nobody was…
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The handbag care routine that keeps leather for decades.
A good leather handbag is built to outlast the person who bought it, provided it is looked after in a few simple, unglamorous ways. Most of the damage we see is not dramatic – it is slow, and almost all of it is avoidable. Stuffing is the first habit worth building. An empty bag left…
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Fine bed linen: laundering at home versus the atelier.
Good bed linen is one of the few household textiles that genuinely improves with age, provided it is laundered in a way that respects the weave. Long-staple cottons and linens used in fine bedding are woven more densely than an average sheet, and that density is exactly what a home wash can slowly undo. At…
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How to read a care label (and when to ignore it)
A care label is a manufacturer covering its own risk, not a precise instruction written for your specific garment. Most of the time it is worth following. Sometimes the fibre in front of you is telling a different story, and it is worth knowing when to trust that instead. What the symbols actually mean The…