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Little Bit of Retro
You can see one of the girl's wearing the sombrero in the movie "Grease" starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John. Great flick! Check out the slumber party and you will see the hat!
If there is anything wrong with your vintage hats, just use them for display.. Most likely you will not even bother putting damaged hats in your home.
We like to keep the finest vintage hats clean and know you do to. Otherwise why spend the money!
Only unique, unusual, or vintage hats have the best decorating or wearable value.
Keeping hat after vintage hat like pill boxes, knits, or worn out feather hats that should be put out of their vintage misery and hung on the garden gate.
Beware of high prices for torn up hats. Some people don't get it. They offer torn, beaten, weathered looking hats and think you should pay an arm and a leg for trash.
Remember, not all trash is a treasure, some trash is just that - trash.
With that said - let's find ways to care for our retro hats!
"Cleaning vintage felt hats and velvet hats. Set your steam iron for rayon. Hold the hat in the steam and turn slowly. Steam the entire crown. using a soft clothes brush or rubber sponge, start at the top of the crown and using a circular motion, brush down to the brim going with the nap or pile.
Then steam and brush the inside and outside of the brim.
If you must, you can steam your hat with a teakettle, but be careful not to get to much moisture on your hat or it will lose it shape and sizing.
Steam will perk up wilted flowers, ribbons, and bows. Just don't steam them long enough to get them wet.
Put curls back in ostrich feathers by steaming and stretching each strand with the side of a spoon handle or other blunt utensil.
Clean straw hats by wiping with a cloth dipped lightly in mild soapsuds, then rinsed in clear water. Don't get the hat too wet as it will shrink and lose it shape.
Brighten and stiffen straws by brushing lightly with a thin coat of clear, colorless shellac diluted with equal amounts of alcohol.
Renew colors in dark straws by rubbing them with a dark cloth dampened with one part water and three parts denatured alcohol. Brush briskly with a piece of dark velvet to help restore the luster and color.
Steam will stiffen a veil. If you want the veil to stand away from our face, shape over crushed tissue paper with steam iron. You can also iron it between two pieces of wax paper.
For a very limp veil dip in gum arabic solution. Dissolve one tablespoon gum arabic (drugstore) in one cup of hot water. Le it dissolve completely - 2 hours or more. Then if veil is soiled, wash and rinse as you would lace. Dip in the gum arabic and spread it flat on a towel to dry. Press with warm iron.
Fine old lace should be cleaned only by an expert. Fragile lace should be basted to a piece of firm, sheer white cotton clothe before laundering. Make a suds of mild soap and lukewarm water. Squeeze gently under water until clean. Rinse.
Smaller pieces of lace can be cleaned using a mason jar half filled with lukewarm water and mild soapsuds. Shake back and forth with the lid on the jar, be gentle. Three times the rinse.
Pat into shape on a turkish towel. Pin your lace to the towel with rust proof pins,
When ironing lace lay on a soft smooth towel. Use the gum arabic solution to stiffen laces.
Gloves can only be washed if they have never been dry-cleaned and only if they are labeled "washable"
Wash your gloves on your hands, using a mild soap and lukewarm water. Use the same motions as when you are washing your hands.
Be careful with gloves. After you have clean gloves, roll them down and off your hands. Rinse several times in lukewarm water. Pat out water with a turkish towel, it won't leave little "baubles" Stretch your gloves back into shape and blow into the fingers. Lay on a turkish towel to dry, stay away from sunlight or other heat sources."
She had a ton of instructions for cleaning and ironing clothing. They are vintage clothing now, but in her day, they were new.
Use the clothing of yesterday to decorate with today. Decorating with vintage is a style statement for your home, be it the 40's, 50's, 60's or 70's, it will say something about you.
Say it with vintage - give an unique gift basket created by you with a vintage touch - a man's fedora, detective novels, wool throw, and gourmet hot chocolates. What a great gift giving idea!
Sell it on Ebay instead!
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