Your Clothing- How to Maintain the Quality of Your Favorite Clothes

You have your favorite piece of clothing that you love and cherish and you dread to think how you will be able to live without it. Unfortunately, no matter how much you love your favorite clothing, it wears away over time. The thing you fear most is about to happen – losing your very favorite item! Well, don’t worry about that a lot because I am going to show you what will make you enjoy wearing your favorite clothing for an extended period of time before it gives up to deterioration.

 Laundering your clothing. Specific methods for doing laundry or laundering clothing have been developed over a long period of time. The most commonly used methods are, hand washing, machine washing and dry cleaning. Chemicals and other solvents are used to remove stains and dirt when laundering. All this is done to ensure that your clothing is in a good state.

Most of your clothing is designed to be pressed or ironed before wearing. This is because pressed clothes are said to be better looking, they appear to be clean, fresh and tidy. It’s quite a good idea to iron clothes that require ironing, not only will they look neat, but bugs like lice (which usually hide in seams) can be exterminated.

A great number of present-day clothing is made of knit fabrics that do not wrinkle quickly, and do not need ironing. Such clothes, if permissible by the manufacturer, can be hot-water -washed to eliminate bugs which can be very annoying. Dry cleaning the non-ironed clothing (if advisable by the manufacturer) is another way of maintaining the quality of your favorite garments.

Hint: Before you wash your clothing, read the label on the garment. This is because some kind of clothing does not require dry cleaning and some, machine washing. Failure to do so may result in you damaging your favorite item of clothing rather than preserving it.

Storage of your clothing after laundering and ironing also has an effect on the quality of your clothing. Clothes hangers can be used when storing your clothes before wearing them again. Neatly folding your clothing and placing then in the closet preserves then in a better-looking manner.

Mend your clothing. Buttons may fall off, fabrics may tear off, seams may come apart and zippers may fail. It’s the right time you mend your favorite clothes. You don’t necessarily have to wait until your clothing falls apart (remember you love your piece of clothing!). “I don’t know how to mend clothing!” you might say.  A precise tailor will be happy to mend your item of clothing for a reasonable fee. Rather than throwing away your favorite clothing because buttons have fallen off, you can fix it.

Despite efforts to maintain your clothing in good quality, there comes a time when you will no longer wear them.

Disposing and or recycling your clothing. Sell the clothes to dress agencies and online auctions. The clothing is then collected, sorted out and shipped for re-use in poorer countries. Better still you can donate them to charity!

Maintaining your clothing in good quality through laundering, ironing (if possible) and good storage can ensure you that you will have many days of enjoying wearing your clothes before they lose functionality. Take care of the good clothes you have.