Tag: laundry

ON LIFESTYLE & ‘JUST FOR TODAY ‘

Life, perhaps, doesn’t have any meaning nor purposes, but we try to give lots of smiles and friendliness to other human beings, love and care of our Nature and other living creatures which also have the right to live, that we make ourselves more beautiful through arts, literatur...

The Invention of the Chinese Laundry

Small businesses have long been the bastion of first-generation immigrants starting out in America and hoping to build a life here. There was a time when Chinese laundries were as common as the corner bodega or mini-mart. Once industrial washing machines came along, though, many hand laundries went ...

The History of Men’s Shirt Collars Is All About Social Class and Avoiding Laundry

Despite our modern association of epic shirt collars with old-timey garb, collars didn’t really show up in the Western world until the mid-1400s. As Sarah Lorriane, an art and fashion historian who writes and talks about historical fashion for Frock Flicks told me in an email intervi...