Fit & Care/5 min
Why Clothes Shrink (and the Four Rules That Stop It)
Relaxation shrinkage, wool felting and heat contraction are three different problems with three different fixes. What each fibre actually loses in the wash, and how to prevent it.
Fit & Care Editor
Hana Kobayashi
Alterations tailor, twelve years · Tokyo, Japan
Hana has altered twelve years of other people’s clothes, which is long enough to know that almost nothing fits anyone off the peg and that a good tailor is cheaper than a new wardrobe. She writes about sizing, fabric behaviour and how garments fail — and how to stop them.
Stories by Hana
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