13 March 2012

Another step towards ladyhood

Buying a whole new wardrobe is one thing. Keeping it presentable is another. I'm using the trial and error method. One thing you shouldn't do is wash white and coloured garments together. I never have white garments, and that's for a reason. But now I have a white shirt. Or rather; had. I made sure I didn't wash it with the red shirts I had bought. But I did wash it with a white-and-red stripy shirt I had bought in a charity shop. If it's second hand it must have been washed many times before! That can't do any harm. But yes it can. It must have been a shirt someone bought in a whim, never wore, and then gave away to the charity shop. Just my luck.

Another thing you shouldn't do is go caving, get entirely caked in mud, have a shower but refrain from washing your hair, and then wear that not-quite-white-anymore-but-still-very-light shirt. All the mud from your hair ends up in the collar!

A third thing you shouldn't do is letting your tidy shirts crumble in the cupboard. A lady hangs her outfits from a clothes hanger! But I wasn't a lady, so I had filled my space up with shelves. And now I had to think again.


I now converted the cupboard in a most adaptable way; the shelves have been sawn in two, and you can just decide to either leave or remove any shelf. So that way you can adjust your cupboard to a changing hanging clothes/lying clothes ratio. Am I not a true inventor? And a damn well-dressed one at that!

4 comments:

Henco said...

I think you need a (well-dressed) butler.

Margot said...

I think so too!

De zus in kwestie said...

Voor de genoemde wasperikelen is ook een oplossing! Colour catchers (oid) heten ze; als je ze aan de gemengde was toevoegt trekken overtollige kleurstoffen daarin en niet in je (voorheen) witte shirt. Verkrijgbaar bij de goed gesorteerde drogist of supermarkt.

Margot said...

Ah! Ik ga terstond op zoek naar dergelijks. Met verscheidene brandweerrode kledingstukken is dat waarschijnlijk een goed idee...