Download or read book Fashionopolis written by Dana Thomas and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation into the damage wrought by the colossal clothing industry--and the grassroots, high-tech, international movement fighting to reform it from a bestselling journalist who has traveled the globe to discover the visionary designers and companies who are propelling the industry toward that more positive future.ture.

Download or read book The Art of Clothing Care written by Steamery and published by Random House. This book was released on 2024-05-23 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would happen if we turned our back on fast fashion trends? If we took time to slow down, to take pride in caring for our clothes and making them last as long as possible? These are the questions at the heart of Steamery's mission. Since 2014, the brand has developed a wide range of products specially designed to bring out the best of your wardrobe. Now Steamery is sharing its secrets to inspire you to not only appreciate the garments you love, but to find joy in the mindful act of clothing care. With quick and simple tips, The Art of Clothing Care shows you how making small changes can go a long way in keeping your wardrobe looking wonderful. This comprehensive guide includes tips on checking a garment's quality, how to shop for pre-loved clothes, keeping your wardrobe fresh and clean without over-washing, how to remove different types of stains, simple clothing repairs and upcycling ideas, as well as inspiring thoughts on the future of fashion and clothing care. Tapping into slow fashion trends including make do and mend, upcycling, clothing rental, sustainable textiles and shopping second-hand, this beautifully designed coffee table book is the perfect way to start thinking about how you care for your clothes and what small changes you could make to keep them looking their best.

Download or read book Care and Maintenance of Textile Products Including Apparel and Protective Clothing written by Rajkishore Nayak and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-03-08 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proper care and maintenance of textile materials is essential in prolonging their durability and appearance. This books describes methods of care and maintenance for textile products, focusing on types of laundering and dry-cleaning processes, chemicals, and equipment, while considering the environmental impacts of these procedures and green cleaning approaches. It details care labelling of garments, including electronic care labelling and instructions for different specialty textiles. Factors such as pilling, abrasion, snagging, color fading, and dimensional change are discussed. This book also emphasizes care and maintenance of textiles used for protection from fire, bullets, cold weather, and chemicals.

Download or read book Wash Wear and Care written by Pat Armstrong and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2017-04-24 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clothing and appearance are steeped in social and personal significance, conveying individuals’ gender, class, culture, and occupation. In the communal setting of long-term residential care, where residents’ autonomy and mobility are often limited but their dignity and identity are paramount, clothes have become crucial issues and the source of tension for residents, their families, and staff. Assessing the neglected but important labour involved in ensuring that clothes promote respect for both the washers and the wearers, Wash, Wear, and Care analyzes the roles that laundry and clothing play in nursing homes, and raises questions about the wider social, political, economic, and historical contexts of these facilities. Drawing on interviews and observations from twenty-seven long-term residential care homes across Canada, Germany, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States, Pat Armstrong and Suzanne Day provide an extensive and vital base of information on the daily organization, tasks, meanings, and concerns associated with clothing, laundry, dressing, and appearance in care facilities. An original study of an overlooked subject, Wash, Wear, and Care illuminates the shifting political and economic dynamics at work in long-term residential care homes and the health care system, raising larger theoretical and policy questions in the process.

Download or read book Clothes Care written by A. J. Ernest Moss and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fabric Care written by D. Noemia Souza and published by New Age International. This book was released on 1998 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book, Though Written For Textiles And Clothing Students Would Certainly Be Of Great Help To Very Many People. Every Single Person Is A Consumer Of Textiles. We All Love To Wear Clothes That Are Dean And Fresh. So We Need To Know How They Should Be Cared For. Persons In The Laundry Industry And Those Managing Institutional Laundries Would Find Some Very Interesting Information And Help.The Book Seeks To Acquaint The Reader With The Nature And Characteristics Of Textile Fibres, The Different Functional Finishes Applied To Fabrics, Types Of Water And Water Softening Processes, Different Laundry Aids, Laundry Equipment And Laundry Processes. Practical Methods Of Removal Of Different Stains From Different Fibre Fabrics Have Been Clearly Indicated. The Book Also Contains Interesting Information On The Care Of Special Items Like Carpets, Rugs, Upholstery, Draperies And Leather. Practical Ideas For Planning Of The Laundry Area In Homes And In Institutions Have Been Suggested.

Download or read book Club Series written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Clothing and Health written by Helen Kinne and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Laundry written by Cheryl Mendelson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-11-24 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Cheryl Mendelson, laundering is the best part of housekeeping. It’s full of physical pleasures—the look of favorite clothes restored to freshness and beauty, the tactile satisfaction of crisp linens in beautifully folded stacks. Good laundering preserves things you love and protects your pocketbook. It doesn’t take much time or effort. What it takes is knowledge, and Laundry is the comprehensive, entertaining, and inspiring book on the art of laundering. Culled from the bestselling Home Comforts, with revised and updated information and a new introduction, Laundry is an indispensable guide to caring for all the cloth in one’s home: from kitchen rags to bedding, hand-washables, and baby clothes to vintage linens. Mendelson offers detailed guidance on when to disregard labels, removing stains, making environmentally informed choices, sewing, and storing clothing and fabrics. A much-needed antidote to the standard-issue how-to manual, Laundry celebrates the satisfactions of ironing, folding, and caring for clothes and linens. Both pragmatic and eloquent, Mendelson provides beginning and veteran homemakers with a seamless combination of reliable instruction, time-tested advice, and fascinating personal narrative. As a farm girl in Pennsylvania, Mendelson—who is a philosopher, lawyer, and professor, as well as a homemaker, wife, and mother—received a classic domestic education from her grandmothers, aunts, and mother. Laundry combines the best of the traditional lore they taught her with the latest in technical and scientific information. Writing with infectious love and respect for her subject, Mendelson is sure to instill in readers a newfound affection and appreciation for the art of laundering.

Download or read book Principles of Clothing Selection written by Helen Goodrich Buttrick and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Wardrobe Wisdom written by Alicia Healey and published by National Trust. This book was released on 2020-11-27 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your wardrobe is crammed with clothes but you’ve got nothing to wear. Sound familiar? Let us introduce you to The Lady’s Maid. A modern-day Mary Poppins of fashion, she knows what to wear, how to wear it and how to make do and mend with minimal fuss and lashings of style to ensure you and your clothes always look their fabulous best. Alicia Healey trained at Buckingham Palace before travelling the world working as a lady's maid and wardrobe consultant for high-profile clients including a Middle Eastern Royal family. She’ll help you to declutter your closet, turn clothing chaos into calm and build a capsule wardrobe for every season with timeless, versatile garments. For every special occasion, she’s got your back: whether it’s a job interview, a wedding, a day at the races or even meeting royalty. Let The Lady’s Maid help you take the stress out of dressing, pack like a pro, deal with every kind of clothing crisis, and defeat the dreaded moth.

Download or read book Taking Care of Clothes written by Mablen Jones and published by St Martins Press. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the durability of various fabrics, the cleaning and repair of different types of clothing, and the procedures for the storage of clothes

Download or read book The Story of Clothes written by Benita Sen and published by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI). This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prehistoric people made clothes to protect themselves from harsh weather. Since then, clothing has gone through so many changes, the fi rst users of clothes may not recognise them today. From thick animal skins to clever clothes that keep you warm in winter and cool in summer, clothing keeps getting smarter and more fashionable. Although the cloth industry makes a variety of fabrics that are made into clothes, curtains, towels, quilts, and bags that we use everyday, it also uses lots of power to run the looms that make the cloth. The Story of Clothes offers smart, green solutions to practice the 3Rs to green our wardrobes. It also brings you news of green initiatives, like creating synthetic fabric from recycled plastic PET bottles and organic fabrics from soy plants. Other titles in the series • The Story of Computer (ISBN:9788179935118) • The Story of Food (ISBN:9788179935088) • The Story of House (ISBN:9788179935125) • The Story of Paper (ISBN:9788179935057) • The Story of Transport (ISBN:9788179935095)

Download or read book The Conscious Closet written by Elizabeth L. Cline and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From journalist, fashionista, and clothing resale expert Elizabeth L. Cline, “the Michael Pollan of fashion,”* comes the definitive guide to building an ethical, sustainable wardrobe you'll love. Clothing is one of the most personal expressions of who we are. In her landmark investigation Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion, Elizabeth L. Cline first revealed fast fashion’s hidden toll on the environment, garment workers, and even our own satisfaction with our clothes. The Conscious Closet shows exactly what we can do about it. Whether your goal is to build an effortless capsule wardrobe, keep up with trends without harming the environment, buy better quality, seek out ethical brands, or all of the above, The Conscious Closet is packed with the vital tools you need. Elizabeth delves into fresh research on fashion’s impacts and shows how we can leverage our everyday fashion choices to change the world through style. Inspired by her own revelatory journey getting off the fast-fashion treadmill, Elizabeth shares exactly how to build a more ethical wardrobe, starting with a mindful closet clean-out and donating, swapping, or selling the clothes you don't love to make way for the closet of your dreams. The Conscious Closet is not just a style guide. It is a call to action to transform one of the most polluting industries on earth—fashion—into a force for good. Readers will learn where our clothes are made and how they’re made, before connecting to a global and impassioned community of stylish fashion revolutionaries. In The Conscious Closet, Elizabeth shows us how we can start to truly love and understand our clothes again—without sacrificing the environment, our morals, or our style in the process. *Michelle Goldberg, Newsweek/The Daily Beast

Download or read book Home Comforts written by Cheryl Mendelson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-05-17 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic bestselling resource for every household, Home Comforts helps you manage everyday chores, find creative solutions to domestic dilemmas, and enhance the experience of life at home. “Home Comforts is to the house what Joy of Cooking is to food.” —USA TODAY Home Comforts is an engaging and comprehensive book about housekeeping. It is a lively and readable guide for both beginners and experts in all the domestic arts. From keeping surfaces free of germs, watering plants, removing stains, folding a fitted sheet, cleaning china, tuning a piano, lighting a fire, setting the dining room table—this guide covers everything that people might want to do for themselves in their homes. Further topics include: making up a bed with hospital corners, expert recommendations for safe food storage, reading care labels (and sometimes carefully disregarding them), keeping your home free of dust mites and other allergens, this is a practical, good-humored, philosophical guidebook to the art and science of household management.

Download or read book The Art of Good Housekeeping written by Good Housekeeping Institute and published by Collins & Brown. This book was released on 2015-11-26 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All you need to run a modern home Hundreds of expert time-and-money-saving ideas A must-have for every household This indispensable manual is a must-have for every home. The Art of Good Housekeeping is packed with tried and tested answers to every household query, from how often you should clean your duvet, to how to maintain the exterior of your house. Written by a team of experts from the Good Housekeeping Institute, it tells you everything you need to run a home in the most efficient, safe, cost-effective and environmentally-friendly way. Chapters include Buying a Home, Equipping your Home, Care and Maintenance, Cleaning, and Safety and Security. Topics covered include everyday chores, appliances, planning rooms, buying furniture, legal matters, mortgages, pipes and drains, and gas and electricity. With easy-to-follow, practical illustrations throughout, this book packs a wealth of expertise into one indispensable volume so you can run your home without running out of steam.

Download or read book Wash Wear and Care written by Pat Armstrong and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2017-04-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clothing and appearance are steeped in social and personal significance, conveying individuals’ gender, class, culture, and occupation. In the communal setting of long-term residential care, where residents’ autonomy and mobility are often limited but their dignity and identity are paramount, clothes have become crucial issues and the source of tension for residents, their families, and staff. Assessing the neglected but important labour involved in ensuring that clothes promote respect for both the washers and the wearers, Wash, Wear, and Care analyzes the roles that laundry and clothing play in nursing homes, and raises questions about the wider social, political, economic, and historical contexts of these facilities. Drawing on interviews and observations from twenty-seven long-term residential care homes across Canada, Germany, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States, Pat Armstrong and Suzanne Day provide an extensive and vital base of information on the daily organization, tasks, meanings, and concerns associated with clothing, laundry, dressing, and appearance in care facilities. An original study of an overlooked subject, Wash, Wear, and Care illuminates the shifting political and economic dynamics at work in long-term residential care homes and the health care system, raising larger theoretical and policy questions in the process.