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How to Avoid Ironing
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How to Avoid Ironing

2018 Update: We still stand by this advice on how to avoid ironing your work clothes — but you may also want to check out our more recent discussions on laundry issues, including how to iron your clothes less. Can you look professional — without ironing your clothes every day? Reader K is particularly curious…

Tailoring – What Are Your Top Five Alterations?
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Tailoring – What Are Your Top Five Alterations?

“Tailoring can really make or break an outfit.” We’ve heard it a million times! On blogs like Extra Petite and Alterations Needed, the bloggers talk — a lot — about what alterations they get done to make things fit. (Jean from ExtraPetite even guest posted on which suiting alterations you should consider.)  (Pictured: Expert Tailoring Alterations,…

Buenos Aires 101 - Shopping, originally uploaded to Flickr by Tony Felix.
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The Best South America Stores for Professional Clothes

Continuing our series of the best places to shop in other continents (we’ve done Europe and Asia so far), I thought we’d talk about where to shop in Central and South America today. I’ve heard Buenos Aires described as the Paris of the South (and Lynn Yaeger certainly had a fun time there in this…