Shearling Coat CareWritten by Dan Sickafus
Shearling coats and jackets are easy to take care of, although you do have to keep in mind a few things to avoid accidental damage to them. Here's our care guide.If your shearling jacket gets wet, let coat dry naturally. Don't place by a fire or other high heat source. Heat can dry out natural oils in hides. Do not wash your shearling coat or jacket in a washing machine or put in a dryer. Most shearling coats are meant to be dry cleaned. When looking for a dry cleaner, make sure that they know how to properly clean a shearling coat. The process must include putting natural oils back into hides. Without doing this process, hides will dry out and coat will be ruined. When hanging your Shearling Coat or Jacket use on a sturdy, well shaped coat hangar. Don't use a wire hanger that's going to put "pokies" in shoulders and don't hang it up on a knob for extended periods of time. Avoid stain resistant treatments that are made of silicone. We recommend Cavalier brand Protect-All. It will give you a layer of protection without changing color or finish. Do not put adhesive stickers on shearling coats or jackets, as part of adhesive can either get left behind or adhesive may itself pull off some of fabric.
| | Beware when buying anything from Argos stores this christmas Written by Nicholas Witham
Beware when buying anything from Argos stores this christmas you might get more than you bargined for! Whilst on our family holiday in Cornwall, July 2002, my wife purchased a digital camera from Argos StorePenzance and was given wrong item by sales staff Shirley Salmon and Deborah Williams at that store. My wife had payed for a £549.99 Fuji digital camera but was given a Fuji Instamatic camera worth only £29.99. When sales staff were confrounted with this they apologised and exchanged item. The next day we were both extremly shocked when we were arrested by police and questioned by Detective Constable Deborah Hunt from Falmouth CID. We had been wrongly accused by Argos stores of theft by Deception. Argos stores claimed that we obtained two £549.99 Fuji digital cameras and only paid for one! Our two young daughters were put under supervision of social services, causing them (and myself and my wife) great distress and anxiety, while we were detained and repeatedly questioned by police. The police had raided our car and seized
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