And understand that even a single wearing (or probably a lot of try-ons with your new sweater) means your natural-fiber clothes (wool, silk, cotton, cashmere, fur including blends) are no longer sterile when it comes to insects.

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Aluminum foil as wrinkle remover: 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.

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Singular among the clothes in the show is a superbly cut black wool coat and trouser suit of 1928, made for Michael Strange, which was the pseudonym of Blanche Oelrichs, a poet who was once married to the actor John Barrymore.

WSJ: Beau Brummell and His Heirs | Men of Fashion | RISD Museum | By Laura Jacobs