Jolie Kerr is a cleaning expert and advice columnist. She'll be here every week helping to answer your filthiest questions. Are you dirty? Email her. I have a dark red silk tie that has a hand lotion ...

If you need to iron a silk item, set the iron to delicate and use a very gentle hand, too much heat will easily scorch the fibers. If some salad dressing dripped onto a silk tie, sprinkle baking soda ...

Wool skirts and silk ties may avoid those pricey trips to the dry-cleaner in the future and clean themselves, researchers in Australia and China suggest. They report development of a nanoparticle ...

If I were prez, the Department of Homeland Security would have an emergency haberdashery unit down there, replacing and repairing all the finery that was damaged and destroyed due to federal ...