Aneirin
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Joined: 3/18/2006 From: Tamaris Status: offline
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New clothes, nope I don't wash them, my reasoning is they look as good as they did when I bought them, if I wash them , there is a strong chance they will never look the same again. Second hand clothes, namely my leather stuff, some silk and velvet, well leather I can't wash, so I am stuffed there, the silk maybe it will get a wash, but the velvet goes odd when I wash it. What I tend to do is employ the sniff test, if it smells like it has been washed, I generally just wear it. The leather, well, all the stuff I have managed to get so far, there is the smell of dry cleaning about it, either that or the leather smell, nothing untoward, so I just wear it and that is that, my moisture can add to the previous owner's moisture and help the leather. Anyone ever noticed that when you perspire heavily in leather, it gives off such a lovely earthy aroma ?
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Everything we are is the result of what we have thought, the mind is everything, what we think, we become - Guatama Buddha Conservatism is distrust of people tempered by fear - William Gladstone
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