A “HOW” FOR MEN’S CLOTHES.

Fair Play, Volume I, Issue 9, 30 December 1893, Page 24

A “HOW” FOR MEN’S CLOTHES.

Pointers For Brushing and Folding Coats and Trousers. He always looked neat and tidy, although an active business man. The übiquitous reporter ventured to ask him how he did it. “I brush them every night,” said he, “but whisk brooms simply ruin clothes.” “You should have a good bristle brush, not too stiff. Then brush as often and as much as you like, and your clothes will look the better and wear the better for it.

‘T have passed through the period of limited means with which to purchase clothing, and therefore know what economy in this sense means. Yet I always managed to dress well. I brushed my clothes every night, hung up the coat on two pegs instead of one, folded the trousers in three, the vest in two, and laid the trousers on the chair and the vest on the trousers.

“I do pretty much the same at present. When I take off a pair of trousers, 1 stretch them a bit with my hands after folding them once with the crease in front, and then lay them out full length on the shelf, or perhaps I fold them in three and lay them on the chair. I turn the coats inside out when I lay them away—not the sleeves, of course. I let them hang straight inside and fold the coat once.

“Coats that I wear frequently I keep hanging on a wire frame. Ido the same with the dress suit coat, though the trousers of the dress suit I lay out full length, with the crease in front.

“A man can, by taking a little care of his clothes, dress well, though he is not in independent circumstances financially. But, after all, the great thing is in wearing clean linen and having the shoes polished. The finest clothing in the world won’t make a man look well if his collar or cuffs are soiled.

“On the other hand, if the linen is clean and fresh, if the clothes are well brushed and if there is a flower in the buttonhole one always looks presentable. I don’t have nay clothes pressed by the tailor, not often at least. I think it is the dude that does that most, or perhaps the man who only has two suits and wants to appear something that he is not. Such a man will be found sending his clothes to the pressers every other day. “Whenever a garment gets spotted I have it cleaned. Then of course it gets a good pressing, but that is often enough for the iron.”

How to Wash Lace.

Cover a bottle with fine white flannel, and taok the lace smoothly and evenly upon it, fastening down every little point. Shake the bottle in lukewarm water and suds until the lace is clean, and rinse in the same way in clear water. Put it in the sun to dry and dip it in starch. Then wrap cambric about it and put it again in the open air to dry. "When quite dry, untack the lace. It will need no ironing.