Re: [h-cost] about bath towels...
I use Bed Bath Beyond too! Also Costco has good towels. Penny Ladnier, owner The Costume Gallery Websites www.costumegallery.com 15 websites of fashion, costume, and textile history FaceBook: http://www.facebook.com/TheCostumeGallery ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] about bath towels...
Lands' End, expensive, but nice. We got some nice ones at Kohl's, make sure you check the quality, though. Similar towels in different colors were different quality. And try Costco. Sharon C. -Original Message- From: h-costume-boun...@indra.com [mailto:h-costume-boun...@indra.com] On Behalf Of Patricia Dunham Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2013 1:36 AM To: h-costume-indra.com Costume Subject: [h-cost] about bath towels... Thanks all for the responses about those velvet terms; much appreciated. NOW... we need to replace some bath towels. BUT! where do YOU buy decent bath towels these days? JCPenney used to be our go-to for almost all bed bath linens, but not so much these days. They appear to be suffering the breakdown in quality that so many textiles are. (You can't get PermaPrest bed sheets anymore, sigh, although I still have a few inherited from my mother, and my own student housekeeping. I suppose that one is OK, apparently the permaprest process was an environmental horror that even in the olden days of 30+ years ago became unsupportable.) But bath towels, now! I have remnants of a couple of bath sheets that I made into a house-robe for Mr. Shoulders, possibly 30 years ago. This 100% cotton fabric is STILL full-surfaced and soft as satin! It's cut into ca. 12 squares and the sides do not ravel or produce bits in the wash. JCP is certainly not carrying this quality of towelling these days, or for the past decade at least. Most of the older towels we have (from various sources) seem to last about 3 years before they go so thin that they dry like sandpaper, OR start to have the seamed selvages rip out, OR start to tear away at the flat-weave sections... So, please! Where do YOU-all buy or order on-line, what brand(s), of bath towels that STAY full and soft and in one piece, these days? Thanks much! chimene et al ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] about bath towels...
Thanks all for the responses about those velvet terms; much appreciated. NOW... we need to replace some bath towels. BUT! where do YOU buy decent bath towels these days? JCPenney used to be our go-to for almost all bed bath linens, but not so much these days. They appear to be suffering the breakdown in quality that so many textiles are. (You can't get PermaPrest bed sheets anymore, sigh, although I still have a few inherited from my mother, and my own student housekeeping. I suppose that one is OK, apparently the permaprest process was an environmental horror that even in the olden days of 30+ years ago became unsupportable.) But bath towels, now! I have remnants of a couple of bath sheets that I made into a house-robe for Mr. Shoulders, possibly 30 years ago. This 100% cotton fabric is STILL full-surfaced and soft as satin! It's cut into ca. 12 squares and the sides do not ravel or produce bits in the wash. JCP is certainly not carrying this quality of towelling these days, or for the past decade at least. Most of the older towels we have (from various sources) seem to last about 3 years before they go so thin that they dry like sandpaper, OR start to have the seamed selvages rip out, OR start to tear away at the flat-weave sections... So, please! Where do YOU-all buy or order on-line, what brand(s), of bath towels that STAY full and soft and in one piece, these days? Thanks much! chimene et al ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] about bath towels...
I used to like Restoration Hardware's towels, but I haven't bought any in a while so don't know if the quality is still what it was 10 years ago. Ann Wass In a message dated 9/14/2013 4:37:29 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, chim...@ravensgard.org writes: Thanks all for the responses about those velvet terms; much appreciated. NOW... we need to replace some bath towels. BUT! where do YOU buy decent bath towels these days? JCPenney used to be our go-to for almost all bed bath linens, but not so much these days. They appear to be suffering the breakdown in quality that so many textiles are. (You can't get PermaPrest bed sheets anymore, sigh, although I still have a few inherited from my mother, and my own student housekeeping. I suppose that one is OK, apparently the permaprest process was an environmental horror that even in the olden days of 30+ years ago became unsupportable.) But bath towels, now! I have remnants of a couple of bath sheets that I made into a house-robe for Mr. Shoulders, possibly 30 years ago. This 100% cotton fabric is STILL full-surfaced and soft as satin! It's cut into ca. 12 squares and the sides do not ravel or produce bits in the wash. JCP is certainly not carrying this quality of towelling these days, or for the past decade at least. Most of the older towels we have (from various sources) seem to last about 3 years before they go so thin that they dry like sandpaper, OR start to have the seamed selvages rip out, OR start to tear away at the flat-weave sections... So, please! Where do YOU-all buy or order on-line, what brand(s), of bath towels that STAY full and soft and in one piece, these days? Thanks much! chimene et al ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] about bath towels...
Bed bath and beyond has a rather large range towels. Sent from my iPhone On Sep 14, 2013, at 6:25 AM, annbw...@aol.com wrote: I used to like Restoration Hardware's towels, but I haven't bought any in a while so don't know if the quality is still what it was 10 years ago. Ann Wass In a message dated 9/14/2013 4:37:29 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, chim...@ravensgard.org writes: Thanks all for the responses about those velvet terms; much appreciated. NOW... we need to replace some bath towels. BUT! where do YOU buy decent bath towels these days? JCPenney used to be our go-to for almost all bed bath linens, but not so much these days. They appear to be suffering the breakdown in quality that so many textiles are. (You can't get PermaPrest bed sheets anymore, sigh, although I still have a few inherited from my mother, and my own student housekeeping. I suppose that one is OK, apparently the permaprest process was an environmental horror that even in the olden days of 30+ years ago became unsupportable.) But bath towels, now! I have remnants of a couple of bath sheets that I made into a house-robe for Mr. Shoulders, possibly 30 years ago. This 100% cotton fabric is STILL full-surfaced and soft as satin! It's cut into ca. 12 squares and the sides do not ravel or produce bits in the wash. JCP is certainly not carrying this quality of towelling these days, or for the past decade at least. Most of the older towels we have (from various sources) seem to last about 3 years before they go so thin that they dry like sandpaper, OR start to have the seamed selvages rip out, OR start to tear away at the flat-weave sections... So, please! Where do YOU-all buy or order on-line, what brand(s), of bath towels that STAY full and soft and in one piece, these days? Thanks much! chimene et al ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
