Product Description

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First published in 1992 and written from Josephine Ive’s own years as a butler and valet, By Jeeves! is a slim, practical handbook devoted entirely to the care of clothes.
 

It begins with the fundamentals of clothing care — what you actually need for garment care and stain removal, and how to use a clothes brush properly — before moving through cleaning and laundering: what to do before a garment goes to the cleaners, how to read a care label, how to treat woollens, pure silk, linen and leather, and what to consider before you start attacking a stain.
 

The second half is where the book earns its place on the shelf. Step-by-step illustrations show how to press trousers, iron a shirt, hang clothes so they keep their shape, make a running repair, and clean and polish shoes as a valet would. A full section on folding covers trousers, shirts, jackets, waistcoats, dresses, skirts, socks and ties — and leads directly into the chapters on packing a suitcase, a hanging bag and other luggage. The book closes, fittingly, with how to tie a bow tie.

Short, clear and generously illustrated, it is the sort of book that is read once and then kept within reach of the wardrobe.

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What you will find inside
 

• What you need for garment care and stain removal

• Using a clothes brush — jackets and woollen garments

• Cleaning and laundering: dry cleaning, care labels, tumble drying

• Caring for woollens, pure silk, linen and leather

• Ironing and iron maintenance; pressing trousers; ironing a shirt

• Hanging clothes, running repairs, shoe care and polishing

• Folding trousers, shirts, jackets, waistcoats, dresses, skirts, socks and ties

• Packing a suitcase, a hanging bag and other luggage

• How to tie a bow tie

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Who it is for

Written for butlers, valets and private household staff, for hotel and resort teams offering valet service, and for hospitality students. Equally at home with the frequent traveller, or with anyone who would simply like their clothes to last longer and arrive uncreased.

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Publication details
 

• Title: By Jeeves! The essential guide to clothing care, valeting & packing your suitcase

• Author: Josephine Ive

• This edition: 1992

• ISBN: 0 9509187 3 3

• Format: illustrated, approximately 42 pages

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A note before publication

The name Jeeves is, of course, P.G. Wodehouse’s, and your acknowledgements credit him warmly as the inspiration. The copy above deliberately makes no claim of connection to the Wodehouse estate, and I would suggest keeping it that way in any advertising — the affectionate nod inside the book is one thing; a marketing claim would be another.
 

Josephine Ive

Founder & Principal Trainer

Magnums Academy Pty Ltd