Spotted Gabardine
Dear Aunt Daisy, I wonder if you would be kind enough to help me, please? Two years ago I bought a wool gabardine coat which almost cost me the earth! I do not want to have it dry cleaned yet. Unfortun: ately, it has two tea stains on one sleeve and cake or tea or coffee spots (three) on the front. As well, the collar is a bit grubby, too. Could you please suggest a way of cleaning it, other than the cleaners. I have not tried anything on it, The stains have been on the coat 4 to 6 months. Would you please answer me in The Listener, because we cannot always hear Wellington up here.-Hopeful, Kaitaia. I feel sure that you cannot do anything satisfactorily at home, and that so good a coat does not deserve to be experimented upon! Furthermore, gabardine does not always react quite safely to home remedies, such as soaking in &lycerine and so on, Also, as you say, ’ the collar is grubby, and the tea stains have been on 4 to 6 months, I wonder why you are hesitant about the dry cleaner? I get all my clothes dry cleaned and they come home just like new. Explain to the cleaners what the stains are.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 928, 24 May 1957, Page 33
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214Spotted Gabardine New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 928, 24 May 1957, Page 33
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