{"id":654,"date":"2008-06-03T21:49:31","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T19:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=654"},"modified":"2024-01-23T23:35:21","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T22:35:21","slug":"hankie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2008\/06\/03\/hankie\/","title":{"rendered":"Hankie"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"imagecontainer\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/Hankie.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"imagecaption\">Rare goods<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nI like comfortable things. I never buy clothes that feel scratchy or stiff &ndash; no jeans, no crackly polyester fabrics. I cut off labels from t-shirts. And I use cotton hankies instead of paper tissues. They are softer and more pleasant for everyday use, and so much gentler than paper on tender skin when I have a cold.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn the Soviet Union cloth hankies were the standard solution &ndash; there was nothing else. The habit also seems fairly common in England: it wasn&rsquo;t too hard to find hankies when I needed new ones. But in Sweden, apparently, people don&rsquo;t use them.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nNK, the upmarket department store in central Stockholm, used to be the place to go for ladies&#8217; hankies. One went to NK&rsquo;s ladies&rsquo; accessories department and asked for them: the demand was so low that they weren&rsquo;t even on display. Now even NK has stopped selling them. When I asked why, I was told that for years NK kept stocking hankies as a service to people who had come to rely on them &ndash; it wasn&rsquo;t really worth it economically.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSo now I am buying cloth hankies online. It&rsquo;s ridiculous&#8230; It&rsquo;s the cheapest, simplest accessory you could possibly imagine &ndash; a simple square of thin cotton cloth &ndash; and they are being shipped to me from England. Eric is going to England soon and I have asked him to buy me some more, since almost all hankies I found on eBay were embroidered and I&rsquo;d rather have plain ones.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBy the way, I still have and use several of my Soviet hankies. No holes, all seams are intact, and the fabric is softer than ever. How&rsquo;s that for quality?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rare goods I like comfortable things. I never buy clothes that feel scratchy or stiff &ndash; no jeans, no crackly polyester fabrics. I cut off labels from t-shirts. And I use cotton hankies instead of paper tissues. They are softer and more pleasant for everyday use, and so much gentler than paper on tender skin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything_else"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18397,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions\/18397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}