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Make Your Own Heated Clothing
9:00AM Adam Pash | Whether you’re a motorcycle rider or you just like the idea of heated pants (who doesn’t?), this guide from DIY web site Instructables details how to make your own heated clothing without breaking the bank. More »
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De-Stink Smelly Shoes With Cat Litter
8:00AM sarahrae | Do you have a pair of shoes that aren’t worn out, but are just too smelly to wear? You could buy any number of de-smelling solutions from your local store, but we head straight for the cat litter. More »
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Be Prepared For Wardrobe Malfunctions
11:30PM Jason Fitzpatrick | Ideally you’d never tear the hem of your pants, scuff your shoes or forget your umbrella on a rainy day. Use these quick wardrobe-saving tips to avoid going to your meeting tattered and rain soaked. More »
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“Dry Clean Only” Clothes You Can Wash At Home
1:00AM Kevin Purdy | Your finer clothings’ tags may tell you otherwise, but you could be saving money by cleaning certain items at home. A veteran dry cleaner helpfully explain what does and doesn’t need the plastic bag treatment. More »
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Use Aluminium Foil To Better Iron Delicate Clothes
12:15AM Kevin Purdy | Got a rayon, silk, or otherwise delicate garment that can’t take ironing but gets seriously wrinkled? A sheet of aluminium foil can help straighten out, and do a few other neat tricks. Grab your tube of foil, set up the ironing board, and set up an indirect ironing station: To get wrinkles out of silk, wool, and rayon clothes that can’t take direct heat, place a piece of foil on your ironing board, then lay the garment flat over it. With the steam button down, pass the iron three to four inches over the fabric several times. Wet heat radiating from the foil helps smooth out wrinkles. Beyond ironing, Real Simple points out that the thin shiny stuff can also reduce TV interference and scrub the heck out of glassware. Hit the link below for more clever uses of a pretty great material. Photo by tanakawho. New Uses for Aluminium Foil Real Simple] More »
Design
7:31PM Angus Kidman |
If there’s a concept I personally find weirder than chook rental, it’s the notion that you would rent an outfit for anything other than a wedding or a very formal awards dinner (and even those are marginal). Then again, everyone who knows me will confirm I’m no fashion junkie. If you do fall into that category, Dressed Up might appeal. You choose clothes from a list of designers famous enough that even I’ve heard of some of them (Wayne Cooper, Nicola Finetti), and then get them sent to you, complete with return courier bag. Payment is by the week, and you can keep the outfit as long as you want. With the sampling of outfits I checked priced at between one-quarter and one-fifth the sales cost, hanging on to them for a long time wouldn’t make sense, but for a short-term solution, this could work out cheaper than just buying a new outfit every time you need to impress the boss.
[Dressed Up]
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Dressed Up rents designer outfits by the week
7:31PM Angus Kidman |
If there’s a concept I personally find weirder than chook rental, it’s the notion that you would rent an outfit for anything other than a wedding or a very formal awards dinner (and even those are marginal). Then again, everyone who knows me will confirm I’m no fashion junkie. If you do fall into that category, Dressed Up might appeal. You choose clothes from a list of designers famous enough that even I’ve heard of some of them (Wayne Cooper, Nicola Finetti), and then get them sent to you, complete with return courier bag. Payment is by the week, and you can keep the outfit as long as you want. With the sampling of outfits I checked priced at between one-quarter and one-fifth the sales cost, hanging on to them for a long time wouldn’t make sense, but for a short-term solution, this could work out cheaper than just buying a new outfit every time you need to impress the boss.
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Swap Clothes and Accessories for Free at Rehash
6:00AM Adam Pash | Web site Rehash is like an online swap meet for clothes and accessories. According to the site, the average American throws away around 68 lbs. of clothes per year—Rehash is a place to recycle those clothes and get something in return. Once you’ve joined, you can list anything you want to exchange, along with items you’re looking for. Rehash trades can happen either in person or through shipping, though the site doesn’t have anything in place to help you with shipping. Obviously Goodwill is always there to take your clothes donations so that you aren’t trashing your unused clothes every year, but if you’re looking to get something in return, Rehash may be a good place to do it. Thanks Antonella! Rehash More »Consider made to measure for good fitting, long lasting clothes
11:53AM Sarah Stokely | If you’re one of the many people who finds it difficult to buy clothes which fit you well because you’re too tall/short/thin/fat, then you may have considered getting clothes made to measure. It may seem like an indulgence, but the result is form-fitting clothing and since you can specify the fabric, you can choose fabrics which will last longer and better than clothes sold off the rack.The Age today wrote up a few Sydney and Melbourne tailors and what you can expect if you go the bespoke route for your shirts.
“The first shirt you have made from your custom shirtmaker should
range in price from $185 to $300, but it can be regarded as a
template.”
Depending on how much you usually spend on shirts, that initial charge may be a shock, but once you have the template shirt, you can get it “copied” for subsequent shirts which will be cheaper. For example, the article recommends a Hong Kong-based tailor, Jantzen, who will copy shirts for $50. That is pretty competitive when you consider the kind of shirt you’d get for $50 off the rack.
So have you tried made to measure clothing? I have a few friends who’ve bought tailored suits and loved them. And they look fantastic. :)
The Pro’s guide to bespoke tailoring [The Age] More » 
