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How sand and dust increase wear on the skin
Short answer: Small particles between fabric and skin act like sandpaper. The movement turns into grinding, and both ...
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Why melange hides wear better than a plain colour
Short answer: Wear changes how light hits the surface of the fabric. On a solid colour the change shows straight away...
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What pilling means
Short answer: Pilling is the small balls of fibre that gather on the surface of a fabric. They form through rubbing, ...
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What cannot be saved
Short answer: Fabric worn thin over a larger area, a cracked print, discolouration that has soaked into the fibre and...
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Signs that a garment is halfway
Short answer: The first pills, a neckline that does not quite spring back, and a colour that has started to go dull a...
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The five places wear always starts
Short answer: Armhole, hip height, neckline, crotch and heel are the five places where wear almost always starts. Loo...
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Wear from an office chair over a year
Short answer: Eight hours a day against a fabric cover adds up to around two thousand hours of friction a year. It is...
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Wear from the car seat over a year
Short answer: If you commute an hour a day, your back and seat rub against the car seat for around five hundred hours...
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Wear from a bag strap over a year
Short answer: A strap that sits in the same place every day wears the fabric thin within a year. Switch shoulders eve...
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Which part of a garment dies first
Short answer: It is most often the elastic. In most cases the waistband or cuff gives up long before the fabric is wo...
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Three years with the same garment
Short answer: After three years and about a hundred and fifty washes, most basics are finished. The fabric is thin, t...
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A year with the same garment
Short answer: A garment used weekly for a year has been washed about fifty times. It is still usable, but you can see...
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