fashion · Life

Washing Your Shapewear: Essential Tips to Make It Last Longer

Shapewear nowadays can be found in the majority of wardrobes. If you have invested in a high-quality piece you need to properly take care of it to make it last. Why wouldn’t you want to keep a piece that enhances your silhouette and boosts your confidence as much as possible?

Washing your wholesale shapewear incorrectly can lead to many things. Some of them are the shapewear losing its shape, elasticity, and effectiveness. To make your garment last much longer, it’s important to follow the next tips. Especially those on how to wash and dry your shapewear.

The materials

These garments are often made of a blend of materials. They offer compression, stretch, and durability. But they also require special care to maintain their properties.

For example, nylon is known for its elasticity and strength. This one is prone to heat damage but durable too. Spandex, on the other hand, provides stretch and compression. This makes shapewear effective. But it can be sensitive to harsh detergents as well as high temperatures.

Shapewear

Polyester is often combined with other fibers. It adds durability and resilience. If it is not washed properly it can hold on odors. Finally, cotton always adds comfort and breathability. It can shrink if washed in hot water and should be handled gently.

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Humour · Life

The Ills

The Ills

Photo by Elena Mozhvilo on Unsplash

We have THE ILLS.

I was going to call this post ‘Sicker than your Average’ until I Googled ‘Slicker than your Average’ and realised that that’s the name of a Craig David album…see, I must be ill if my puns revolve around shitty UK Garage.

But yeah, we’re all ill. Sausage has dealt with it in her usual stoic and utterly admirable fashion, she really does epitomise the English stiff upper lip. I, on the other hand, have been feeling the need to proclaim how shit I feel on an hourly basis. Husband is feeling crap too and is probably a day or two ahead of me in the course of the illness, so everything I’m going through, he’s already dealt with.

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Life · Opinion · Personal

Living with an Insomniac

Awake is the new sleep

Sleep is for the weak, or so they say…

You know how most of us muddle through life, not giving a second thought to our daily to-ings and fro-ings, unaware that the things which have become normality to us are, in reality, quite  random and out of the ordinary?

I had two wake up calls recently (if you’ll pardon the unintended pun) which made me realise that my life is out-of-the ordinary.

The first was a conversation with my husband in which we calculated that we spend an average of 4 hours a week (if we’re lucky) actually asleep in the same bed.

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Life · Opinion · Rant

A little perspective, please?

A little perspective, please?

I’ve just been reading Angie’s post over at ‘A Whole Lot of Nothing’ on her perspective around gay rights and I wanted to write a post about it, because I honestly couldn’t agree more.

I think in this day and age it’s absolutely ASTOUNDING that people still take issue with others because of their sexuality. You can quote all the bible passages at me you like, but I will say this. For every quote ‘condemning’ homosexuality, there is another which says that God loves EVERYONE:

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Life · Personal

R.I.P. Sir Norman.

Norman Wisdom

We awake this morning to the sad news that Sir Norman Wisdom has passed away. He lived to the grand old age of 95, despite suffering with heart problems and having had a series of strokes in the last 6 months. He will be fondly remembered by people all over the world (apparently he was a cult hero in Albania!) and was described by Charlie Chaplin as his “favourite clown”.

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