A new garment frequently arrives with a small packet containing a spare button, a length of thread, and sometimes a square of the fabric it is made from.
The button…
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On the back of a great many shirts, just below the yoke where the pleat sits, there is a small fabric loop.
Most people have noticed it, nobody…
The complaint that women's clothing has no usable pockets is old, correct, and usually explained badly.
The usual version is that women were deliberately denied pockets to keep them dependent.…
Every garment carries a row of small symbols on a label, and most people read exactly one of them - the number in the tub - and ignore the rest.…
There are buttons on the sleeve of almost every jacket, and on almost every jacket they do not do anything.
They cannot be undone, because on most garments there are…
Everybody has noticed it. The little pocket sewn inside the right front pocket of a pair of jeans, roughly two and a half inches deep, too small for a phone…