Mother’s Day is the perfect time to spoil your mother or yourself with Silk. Either as silk clothing or silk accessories such as silk pillowcases or silk eyemasks. Silk is a fibre, a protein like your skin that when made up into garments is something that makes a person feel very special and less likely
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One great property of silk is its ability to absorb colours from natural clothing dyes. This makes it a wonderful fabric to make scarves and dresses out of. Often though you will find rather expensive silk dresses made of silk fabric (either a fine silk chiffon or georgette silk) that requires a lining as this
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Slow fashion is when you have styles that are timeless and classic. This means it does not respond to the vagaries of fashion dictates and change each season. It is also made of high quality fabrics that are destined to last like silk, linen and cashmere. The movement for slow fashion is apparantly taking off
Continue reading »The Dangers of Wearing Synthetic Clothing Many, many, many years ago I worked as a registered nurse in a South London hospital. I had brought with me from my home country New Zealand, my fine nylon or maybe it was an acetate graduation nurses uniform. One thing was clear it was made from a definite
Continue reading »I recently read in the latest June edition of Ragtrader, a fashion industry magazine, where editor Tracy Porter highlighted the issues consumers have with sizing in the clothing industry. Some manufacturer’s even have different sizing amongst their own labels. It is hoped that the federal government will soon introduce a voluntary national sizing standard and
Continue reading »This is a question I am often asked. Normally most silk can be hand washed with a gentle non alkaline soap or shampoo, with a capful of white vinegar added to the rinse water. This will also normally remove most stains. However stains from perspiration, perfumes, and deodorants can cause irritating marks on your silk
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I think we already know most of the features and benefits of wearing silk clothing next to our skin, but recently I have heard several anecdotal stories about the benefits of using silk pillowcases and eye masks. I decided to invest in some myself and have had amazing feedback from several sources. Older women have
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Silk and my Journey I was out with some good friends recently and they asked me when I first became interested in silk. I had to think hard as we often hear the word silk used in so many different contexts, ie lawyers taking silk and jockeys wearing silk. But I remember the first time
Continue reading »So what are Silk’s Benefits? So many times I hear that silk is very expensive and difficult to look after. Well most silk clothing pays for itself several times over. It also does not contribute to land fill with the throwaway clothing mentality so evident today. Generally if you look after silk it will last
Continue reading »Just lately i.e. in the past year I have had more requests for silk sleepwear for men by men. Yes I think we all know men are not presently the biggest purchasers of any clothing. They are often content to wear the same clothes year in and year out. In fact for many the older
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