This happens to us all! We know because the original blog post back November 2011 is one of our most visited blog pages. One day you go to put your favorite sweater on but it has taken a turn for the worse. The sweater looks…
Many people will refer to the gathering of the sweater fabric as “Fuzz balls” but this phenomenon is called “pilling”. It results from short or broken fibers on the surface of the fabric getting tangled together and forming a ball called a pill. Why Pilling?…
Sweaters are a winter time wardrobe staple but they need special care. They get a lot of use this time of year and may have cost you a bit so it’s worth the effort to take special care of them. To maintain your sweaters so they last year…
We love our sweaters and more times than not, we’ve paid a little more for them than other items in our wardrobe. For your sweaters to maintain that just like new appearance, they must be stored properly on a daily basis. If you want your sweaters to last…
A lot has changed in a week with this weather! Typical of an Indiana winter it was 50 degrees one day, and snow the next. It’s safe to say that the warm weather fabrics such as cashmere, down, wool and velvet have moved to the…
I was cleaning out some files of my home office and came across an article on uses for lemons I had pulled out of a magazine years ago. WOW! Lemons are a “super fruit” in so many ways. As an acid and a natural disinfectant,…
If you shopped for sweaters or other knit garments lately, you have probably noticed that many of them contain a fiber called acrylic. Before purchasing garments containing this fiber, it is important that you are aware of the problems you may run into and how…
After months of shopping and obtaining “stuff” for myself and others this past Holiday Season, I’m now focused on purging. The pace has slowed a little as we break between winter and spring sports and it gives me time to dig into our closets to…
In addition to 24/7 drop off at 15 of our locations and our 24/7 Locker pick up at 14 of our locations, we have 24/7 Kiosk service at 6 of our locations; Carmel at 1438 W. Main Street, our downtown location Lockerbie Marketplace at 350…
I recently noticed a teeny tiny hole in one of my cashmere sweaters when rotating it back into my closet after storing it during the summer. My thought was, “that wasn’t there before I dry cleaned and stored it last spring”. Did I clean it…