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Friday, April 15, 2011

Designer Friendly Material – Linen

A material that is well liked by fashion designers as well as common tailors is linen. You can use this material to cut and style to make any type of cloth. You can blend it with other fabrics like wool, cotton, synthetic fibers and silk to make trendsetting dresses. It is famous for its comfort and preferred in the warm weather.

You get formal wears like Men's Linen Suits, Evening wears, Casuals wears and almost all types of clothes made of linen. It is an all season cloth, but much preferred during summers. Linen pants could be paired with cashmere sweater in the fall and with a silk shirt in spring. It can be combined to a give a great look. Linen trousers make one feel good. They are not heavy as the other kinds of trousers. During summers wearing jeans can get quite uncomfortable. Linen pants feel comfortable on any occasion and weather.

Men’s linen pants can be worn during summers with cotton shirts or with a casual T shirt to give a totally casual look. The only drawback is that it wrinkles easily and you have to pack it carefully. Men’s Linen Trousers are easily cleaned and you can wash them, steam or dry clean the trousers. You can maintain them easily. The comfort of linen pants makes them very versatile. It can be used for formal wear as well as informal wear. So, if you want cool trousers for spring, summer or you want to wear them for work – they would be your best choice.

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Linen Clothing: Linen Wedding Attire and Casual Resort Linen Clothing

Linen is the mother of all natural fibers. The Word Linen refers to a fabric or yarn which is obtained from the flax plant. The flax is a very sensitive plant to grow. The quality of the linen largely depends on the quality of the plant. The flax plant is very expensive to grow as the process to get fibers from the plant is very tedious and expensive.

Linen clothing, you can say, is the oldest in the world. In ancient times, it was only for royalty. Purple linen was used in a King's robe. Bible also says that linen was used in the Temple and Tabernacle. There is also reference to fine linen in it. Linen wrappings were used to preserve mummies in tombs more than 3000 years back. Linen held high value since it was regarded as wealth and was a medium of currency in ancient Egypt. Since it is very expensive fabric to manufacture, it has been limited to a certain class of people.

Linen clothing is well accepted as it is very comfortable and easy to maintain. Linen clothes have other benefits also; they are tint free, they can be washed easily, dry cleaned and streamed. So it is very much easy to clean them. Linen clothes are always in very high demand in hot summer. It is because Linen absorbs heat and has good breathability. It is very good for skin as well. The more you wash linen clothes, the softer they become. That is why it is skin friendly. They also dry very quickly. Apart from it, they are very elegant and long-lasting.

Linen is used for clothes of men and women. Whether, it is casual resort linen clothing or linen wedding attire. As far as linen wedding attire is concerned, linen suites are very good for a casual wedding in summer and hot temperatures. It keeps you cool in hot and humid climate.

Linen can be used for children’s clothes as well. It is ideal for every age group. As Linen clothes are soft and gentle to wear. They suit your child's skin as well. Being soft and cool, Linen clothing for children are ideal, especially when it comes with a huge variety of colors and textures.