Posts Tagged ‘clothing’

10 Essential Tools for Practical Travelers

I grew up traveling. My dad was a manufacturer’s representative in home furnishings, which meant he did a tour of all the furniture stores in the Midwest every few months. In the summers, we went with him, exploring the tiniest of Midwestern towns while he showed the fall line in some Main Street furniture store.

After college, I headed to London. When my 6-month work visa expired, I traveled Europe… » Continue

May 7 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: backpack, cheap, clothing, gear, tip, tool, travel | 35 comments»

What-To-Wear Calculator

Ever get an invitation with a dress code specification like ’smart casual’ and stare at your wardrobe wondering what fits that description? You’re not alone.

To make things easier, DressCodeGuide.com does all the thinking for you by suggesting items of clothing for each dress code.

For instance, if you were going to a corporate event with ‘business casual’ as the dress code - during a summer evening in the USA [or… » Continue

September 27 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: clothing | 6 comments»

How To Purge Your Closet

Merlin Mann over at 43folders mentions a tip from Peter Walsh to help you trim your closet to size.

What it entails is getting all the items that hang on hangers and put them up ‘backwards’ with the open end of the hook facing outwards. Then you set a date - a month or so.

Now each time you wear an item and put it back in your closet, you… » Continue

August 16 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: clothing, clutter, organization | 6 comments»

13 Things To Make Out Of Old Jeans

You’ve got a pair of old blue jeans. They don’t fit, or you ripped the bottom out at the skate park. What do you do with them?

Simply Thrifty has 13 options, including a purse, bookcover or placemats. The possibilities are pretty much endless if you want to get creative with some needle and thread.

13 Things You Can Make Out of Your Old Blue Jeans - [SimplyThrifty]… » Continue

June 29 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: clothing | 1 comment»

Tips For Fighting Stains

At a dinner and spilled some red on your white or off white shirt? Don’t strip off just yet, there are some things you can do to ease the pain of stains.

Act immediately – Don’t wait until you’re finished making dinner or get home from wherever the alleged spilling occurred. If you spill something on yourself or something else, immediately blot with cold water. In the time it… » Continue

June 21 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: cleaning, clothing | no comments»

15 Ways To Tie Your Shoelaces

Great site SneakerFreaker have written about 15 ways to tie your laces, handpicked by Professor Shoelace himself, Ian Fieggen. Ian runs a site at shoe-lacing.com that is insanely comprehensive. If you’re trying to link some sense of productivity to learning new shoe-lacing techniques, Ian shows us a very fast and secure method.

How much time a year could you save if you tied your laces quicker?

Guide To Lacing

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June 14 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: clothing, shoe | 5 comments»

Hack Your Closet to Get the Right Job

In 1930 J. C. Fluegel wrote a work entitled “The Psychology of Clothes.”

One of his major precepts stated that nonconformity in choice of clothing was an outward expression of nonconformity in the thought and political outlook of the individual.

So, what?

Summer is here and a whole new mass of job seekers are entering the market. People are made and broken by their appearances. You have just about 20 seconds to… » Continue

June 12 2007 | By Reginald | Tagged: clothing, commnication, Lifestyle | 17 comments»

How To Make Your Own Laundry Detergent

This one is self-explanatory: if you’re tired of buying laundry detergent and want to save a whole lot of money every month, try making your own!

I’ve been experimenting with making lots of cleaning supplies at home, but this one is by far the craziest - and the most successful. Basically, I made a giant bucket of slime that works incredibly well as laundry detergent at a cost of about… » Continue

June 8 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: clean, cleaning, cleanliness, clothing, DIY | 9 comments»

How To Make Your Wallet Super Slim

This actually came up yesterday in my house and I think, to be honest, some people will always have a massive George Costanza wallet.

LifeClever have put together a list of ways to get things down to size. You really don’t need all that stuff in there, so I guess the basic principle is prioritize and think about what you actually need.
The first step to a super-slim wallet, is to… » Continue

April 11 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: clothing, prioritizing, simplicity | 8 comments»

Turn a T-Shirt into a Tank Top

Instructables posted a quick guide at Youtube that shows you how to turn a regular boys t-shirt into a ladies tank top. The process is really quick and requires no sewing. I bet you could complete the whole process is two minutes or less. I’m no fashion expert, but it looks good to me.

Turn a T-Shirt into a Tank Top - [Instructables]… » Continue

April 4 2007 | By Kyle | Tagged: clothing, Lifehack, Money | 1 comment»

Find clothes that fit and flatter your body

myShape.com is an online retail store that offers women (sorry, fellas) a chance to find clothing that “fits and flatters” their specific body type. myShape lets you enter a profile and a “body” type and myShape helps you find clothes that look good on your specific body type. The following is the description from the myShape.com press release:

Its patent-pending ShapeMatch™ system matches specific clothing to each woman’s… » Continue

March 16 2007 | By Kyle | Tagged: clothing, Lifestyle, retail, shopping, women | 6 comments»