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Book Review: "How To Get Dressed" - Five Lessons Learned To Save Money On Your Clothes

 Alison Freer's book, How To Get Dressed: A Costume Designer's Secrets for Making Your Clothes Look, Fit, and Feel Amazing , published in 2015, offers a treasure trove of money-saving tricks and DIY hacks for getting the best out of the clothing you own or purchase. Check it out of the library first; but you may find, as I did, that you want to own it as a reference, there are so many useful tips. Here is a list of the top five money-saving lessons I learned in this book: 1. Learn effective stain treatments you can make with household products I've found in my Goodwill shopping that there is generally a "reason" that a particular item of clothing was given away, and a common one is a minor stain. You can now be the beneficiary of someone else's lack of stain-treating skills! I recently purchased some white shorts (shown in  this post ) that were perfect in every way - except for a tiny stain on one side. With one of the stain treatment options I learned in Fre