Shipping a garment?

How do you nice people ship a completed garment to someone? It's a silk
hapi coat. Not certain how to pack it so it arrives looking unworn

Thanks!

I had to ship a christening gown once upon a time...I stuffed the sleeves
with tissue paper, stuffed the skirt lightly with paper, pinned the whole
thing down to a piece of styrofoam so it wouldn't scoot around in the box,
filled the box with foam peanuts, and shipped it. For the hapi coat,
wrapping the whole thing around a rectangular piece of cardboard (like
shirts in a store) might be enough to preserve the shape during shipping.

"Arri London" wrote in message
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How do you nice people ship a completed garment to someone? It's a silk
hapi coat. Not certain how to pack it so it arrives looking unworn

Thanks!

Arri London wrote in message ...
How do you nice people ship a completed garment to someone? It's a silk
hapi coat. Not certain how to pack it so it arrives looking unworn

Get a garment box of a suitable size for the item. Lay it out flat,
lay acid-free tissue paper over it, and gently fold it around the
tissue to conform to the shape of the box. Use a few straight pins
with large heads (so the recipient will be able to see them easily) to
pin it in shape, and lay the garment in the box. Pin a note to the
front of it telling the recipient you hope they like it, and to be
careful of the pins. (You may want to go so far as to keep track of
how many pins there are and indicate it on the note, so the recipient
will know they've got them all.) Use folded layers of tissue paper to
fill the box, and then close it and wrap it.

Tom Farrell
http://www.SewingWithTom.com/

I would pack it carefully with tissue and bubble-wrap. Roll it - don't
fold. Also, I find sending by Greyhound, Purolators, Loomis and the like
worth the little bit extra in cost. Just my two cent's worth.
Cynthia
"Arri London" wrote in message
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How do you nice people ship a completed garment to someone? It's a silk
hapi coat. Not certain how to pack it so it arrives looking unworn

Thanks!

Arri London wrote:

How do you nice people ship a completed garment to someone? It's a silk
hapi coat. Not certain how to pack it so it arrives looking unworn

Thanks!

Wrap carefully in acid free paper and ship in an acid free dress box:
lots of wedding supplies companies sell them in different sizes, as do
specialist places that supply museums, for storing textiles. Do a
Google for 'acid free tissue paper' and 'acid free dress boxes'. You
can wrap the box in plastic sheeting or put it in a large Tyvex envelope
for further protection against damp in transit.

--
Kate XXXXXX
Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons
http://www.diceyhome.free-online.co.uk
Click on Kate's Pages and explore!

Sew-Sew Lady wrote:

I had to ship a christening gown once upon a time...I stuffed the sleeves
with tissue paper, stuffed the skirt lightly with paper, pinned the whole
thing down to a piece of styrofoam so it wouldn't scoot around in the box,
filled the box with foam peanuts, and shipped it. For the hapi coat,
wrapping the whole thing around a rectangular piece of cardboard (like
shirts in a store) might be enough to preserve the shape during shipping.

Thanks. It is pressed flat, so the cardboard sounds like a good idea.
Better get this nailed down; someone else just asked me for one.....



"Arri London" wrote in message
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How do you nice people ship a completed garment to someone? It's a silk
hapi coat. Not certain how to pack it so it arrives looking unworn

Thanks!

Tom Farrell wrote:

Arri London wrote in message ...
How do you nice people ship a completed garment to someone? It's a silk
hapi coat. Not certain how to pack it so it arrives looking unworn

Get a garment box of a suitable size for the item. Lay it out flat,
lay acid-free tissue paper over it, and gently fold it around the
tissue to conform to the shape of the box. Use a few straight pins
with large heads (so the recipient will be able to see them easily) to
pin it in shape, and lay the garment in the box. Pin a note to the
front of it telling the recipient you hope they like it, and to be
careful of the pins. (You may want to go so far as to keep track of
how many pins there are and indicate it on the note, so the recipient
will know they've got them all.) Use folded layers of tissue paper to
fill the box, and then close it and wrap it.

Tom Farrell
http://www.SewingWithTom.com/

Thanks! Good idea to keep track of the pins.

Cynthia Spilsted wrote:

I would pack it carefully with tissue and bubble-wrap. Roll it - don't
fold. Also, I find sending by Greyhound, Purolators, Loomis and the like
worth the little bit extra in cost. Just my two cent's worth.
Cynthia


TY. Hadn't got as far as working out which carrier to use


"Arri London" wrote in message
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How do you nice people ship a completed garment to someone? It's a silk
hapi coat. Not certain how to pack it so it arrives looking unworn

Thanks!

Kate Dicey wrote:

Arri London wrote:

How do you nice people ship a completed garment to someone? It's a silk
hapi coat. Not certain how to pack it so it arrives looking unworn

Thanks!

Wrap carefully in acid free paper and ship in an acid free dress box:
lots of wedding supplies companies sell them in different sizes, as do
specialist places that supply museums, for storing textiles. Do a
Google for 'acid free tissue paper' and 'acid free dress boxes'. You
can wrap the box in plastic sheeting or put it in a large Tyvex envelope
for further protection against damp in transit.

--
Kate XXXXXX


TY! We have plenty of acid free tissue. Hadn't thought about the
acidfree box before.

What a good group this is! Have shipped handknit sweaters, but they
don't wrinkle!

Thanks all for the good ideas.

No need to worry about acid-free for silk... it's happiest in a slightly
acidic environment, and the amount of time a silk garment ought to spend
in a shipping box should be minimal, anyhow.

Save the expensive acid-free and alkaline buffered papers for
cellulosic fibers that are going into long term storage; if you were
storing silk for a long time, I could make a case for using acid-free tissue,
but not for short-term shipping.

Me, myself and I, I'd probably fold the garment (a hapi coat doesn't
have a great deal of interior construction) nicely, put it in a nice box
with some tissue paper, and mail it, along with a note to hang it up on
a (preferably padded) non-rusting hanger in a steamy bathroom to get out
any travel crinkles, and/or lightly pressed with a cool iron.

Kay Lancaster