The essential guide to clothing care, valeting & packing your suitcase • 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 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. • 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
