CLEANING GLOVES

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 40, 15 August 1925, Page 15

CLEANING GLOVES

Gloves of all kinds can easily and effectively ba cleaned at home without having recourse to the dyer and cleaner, says a lady correspondent of the "Manchester Guardian." A good method of cleaning kid gloves is to spread the gloves out smoothly on a towol folded three or four times. See the gloves ara" pulled into shape bofore beginning the cleaning process. Take a .piecaof clean flannel, moisten it well with milk, rub on ordinary brown soap, and prooeed to clean th« glove, working down towards the fingers. As one section of the flannel becomes soiled change to a clean portion. When every part of tha glove has been so treated hanar it up to dry, The glovaa when dry will be «oft, glossy, well shaped, and quite clean. Fullers' earth is the best material for cleaning sued* gjov«, ,th« cleanser being applied with a nailbrush. White suede gloves can be cleaned by'using dry pipeclay in'the same fashion. Silk, cotton, and fabrio gloves should be cleaned by squeezing in warm sud* and then ribwd in oold water. A dash of blue will improve the colour of white j for black jrloves put a drop of vinegar in the rinsing water. Chamois gloves should bo washed on Uip hands, nsing two or Uireo changes of ■warm, soapy water. They should be pulled into shape, blown out, and hung in the open without rinsing.