Sustainable fashion— it’s part what you buy and part ensuring sure what you buy lasts. More often than not I will post about things you can buy, but today I want focus on the later and making a clothing care kit! You’re not going to need all of the items in this post so you should customize your kit depending on what you need and own. Most of these items will last you a lifetime because you shouldn’t have to use them every day. while, I will link to major companies please support your local small businesses, especially for items in basics!
- Sewing needle and thread. If you don’t know how to sew, please learn (video here). It is a life skill for all genders, ages, and races. Being able to sew a button and fix a hem are vital to making your clothes last. To be pretty honest, I currently only have one of those sewing kits from they have at hotels but that has come in pretty handy when I needed to sew buttons back onto my coat. I recommend having black/navy and white thread on hand and some basic needles.
- A steamer/iron. Fun fact, I can’t iron so I use a steamer. I use it to disinfect thrifted clothing and de-wrinkle my clothes. I recently bought this steamer from Steamery a Stockholm based company. It’s super sleek and works well.
- Sweater stone/shaver. I hate it when my sweaters pill, aka form those little balls of fabric. Ever so often, I’ll use a sweater stone or my oui shave razor to remove them. You can use a double edge razor, sweater stone, or sweater shaver.
- Lint roller. I held off on buying a lint roller for a while because I don’t like how wasteful the traditional ones are so I did some research on alternatives because my oversized coat was covered in lint. Eventually, I found this one. At first, I didn’t think was working but then I noticed the lint was disappearing. The cool thing about this lint remover is that it is reusable.
- Laundress Silk and Wool washes. I love these two washes from The Laundress. The are both very lightly scented, which is important since I very sensitive to fragrances. I use both of these to hand wash silk and wool clothing items.
- Jason Markk’s cleaning kit. My sister is a sneakerhead and uses these to clean her shoes. She also lets me use it when I need to clean my shoes, which is great for cleaning the suede on my Veja holidays. An old toothbrush also works well for cleaning shoes.