10 Tips for Handbag Care
Consider these tips when using your handbag. Your priority is to keep your bag looking good and stain free.
1. Store your handbag in the cover provided or use a natural fiber soft pillowslip.
2. Handle your bag, especially lighter bags, with clean hands.
3. Avoid handling the designer bag after applying beauty products, face foundations, or hand creams.
4. If the weather is very bad, consider using an alternate handbag.
5. Be careful when you visit a hair salon with your bag, as hair products can easily splash onto handbags left on the floor. Clippings of chemically treated hair can land on the bag and leave marks.
6. When carrying a light colored bag, consider using pencils rather than ink pens, as ink can be difficult to remove.
7. If your bag has a chain handle, store the chain inside the bag to avoid scratching the outside leather when the bag is resting.
8. For storage, use bubble wrap to stuff your bags, as it does not attract moths in the same way as tissue paper does.
9. When going to the grocery store, unless you are planning to impress a prospective "Mr. Right", avoid taking your special bag to the supermarket! Trolleys can scratch your bag and mark it permanently, as can spillages from food such as yogurts, cream, dips, squashy fruit, milk and leaking cleaning products.
10. For long term storage, undo strap buckles so that impressions are not created. If you wish to wear the strap across the body "messenger style", and need maximum strap length or need to shorten it to wear "underarm style" at a later date, unbuckling the straps before storage will stop areas becoming impressed and unattractive.
You are reading an original fashion article written by Pauline Weston Thomas
