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JONATHAN BERLIAND & GRAHAM WARREN
eaten all the wool and silk ties, every single one, but they’d left anything man-made.
“I actually had my MA collection in there too. It was a nightmare. Luckily I had it all hanging in plastic, but you can imagine, I was terrified. I had a lot of designs from my old BA collection there as well, and they’d eaten loads of that, all my knitwear. It was really sad.
“But you know what? I was so poor after my MA that I couldn’t afford to get anything dry cleaned. But I’d also read that you could kill them by freezing your clothes, so I stuffed my freezer full of clothes. It kills them and it kills the eggs, too, which is important, and it worked.
“I threw away anything that was eaten, because I wasn’t going to wear clothes that had holes in them. I washed anything that was cotton at 90°C because apparently that kills them, too. Any knitwear that had survived – silk shirts, jackets – I put in the freezer for a week. After that, I hung everything up in the daylight. I was so paranoid; I scrubbed my wardrobe and put lavender everywhere. I think that 1930s suit was to blame, because they [the moths] came after I bought it.”
Graham Warren, our Sales Director talks with customers every day here at Caraselle and says this is not an isolated incident.
“A man in the City rang me in tears because he’d opened his wardrobe to discover his five Saville Row suits had been ruined by moths. Think about it, each suit was a one-off – designed for him – and would have cost thousands of pounds. Each one had been destroyed by moths. Nothing could be done. None of his suits was wearable and none was repairable. Moths had cost him over £30,000.”
The truth is a £30 investment in our moth killer treatments would have safeguarded his precious suits.
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