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Nasty Man...YEAH YEAH YEAH - Turn it off. DO IT DO IT DO IT... That's one vote for thinking before you push the button.
(Brian SD @ 07 Dec. 2004, 9:09) I throw most of my dress shirts in the wash (favorites are handwashed, however), and let them hang dry till only slightly damp, at which point I iron them.Quote:
Letting them dry completely I imagine decreases the risk of shrinkage as when the fibers are wet and then they are heated up that would (i believe) shrink them.I use the same method as Brian does, except I let the shirts dry completely. To compensate for that I use very little spin and stretch the seams gently. Â I use a regular frontloader and have never had problems. My shirts shrink a bit during the first washes but only to their true size anyway.
Mother-of-Pearl buttons are made ONLY from Oyster Shells (see my photos on previous page). Pearls come from oysters; hence oysters are the 'mothers' of pearl(s). Although I have seen a few other shells which have the luminescent qualities of M-O-P, none are thick enough for making buttons. In short, there is NO shell which equals the look of real M-O-P. "Troca" is catchall slang for any (usually white or whitish) shell which is thick enough to make into a button. All shells have some sort of luminescense - with oysters being at the top of the heap. The shell usually used for troca is the Conch shell. If you think about it, due to the fact that a conch spirals inward, there is a heck of a lot of shell there. stacheCould someone please for the last time tell me the differences between MOP and troca? I have seen them side-by-side, heard different stories from people in the industry, but never one solid answer. Please enlighten me.
My most precious buttons are a few hundred I have which were made in the mid-1800's in Muscatine, Iowa by a group of settlers who were actually ex-pat Europeans whose trade in the old country had been hand-carving buttons. My first girlfriend has dried out. My ex has dried out. My Muscatine buttons haven't "dried out" yet. Maybe it is because they've been sleeping with each other for 150 years?It makes sense if women are encouraged to sleep in their pearls ( in order to keep them supplied with body oil) that a mop button would get dried out and crack eventually regardless of qualtiy.