# No One Wants to Remove My Clothing . . .

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-one-wants-to-remove-my-clothing/270082>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 19, 2004, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-one-wants-to-remove-my-clothing/270082 "2004-10-19T18:47:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2004, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-one-wants-to-remove-my-clothing/270082/41 "2004-12-14T18:54:40Z")

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> [@missbunny](#):
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> Eve, that collection is worth thousands of dollars. Are you sure you don’t want to sell it? A museum would be nice but if you can’t find one there’s no point in keeping them if someone will buy them.

“I just mailed lists of what I have to Christie’s and Sotheby’s, and asked if they’d be interested in adding some or all of my collection to their next available costumes/textiles sale.”

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**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2004, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-one-wants-to-remove-my-clothing/270082/42 "2004-12-14T19:07:36Z")

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> [@Mr. Moto](#):
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> **Eve** ,
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> You might want to give the folks at the Philadelphia University School of Textiles and Materials Technology a call. They have a fashion design program, and might really like your collection.

And if you deliver it in person, afterwards you can go out for coffee with twicks, who lives a couple of blocks from there.

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**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2004, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-one-wants-to-remove-my-clothing/270082/43 "2004-12-14T20:03:14Z")

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> [@Eve](#):
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> “I just mailed lists of what I have to Christie’s and Sotheby’s, and asked if they’d be interested in adding some or all of my collection to their next available costumes/textiles sale.”

You may notice a thread in this forum related to “TMI.” If you read through it you’ll find that we all seem to be chronic masturbators.

Hence the blindness.

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**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2004, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-one-wants-to-remove-my-clothing/270082/44 "2004-12-14T20:40:57Z")

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> [@plnnr](#):
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> You may notice a thread in this forum related to “TMI.” If you read through it you’ll find that we all seem to be chronic masturbators.
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> Hence the blindness.

Well, just don’t do it on my antique clothing. That stuff is _impossible_ to get out of silk-satin.

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**Author:** ![missbunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/76d3ee/32.png) [@missbunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missbunny)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2004, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-one-wants-to-remove-my-clothing/270082/45 "2004-12-14T20:51:36Z")

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> [@Eve](#):
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> “I just mailed lists of what I have to Christie’s and Sotheby’s, and asked if they’d be interested in adding some or all of my collection to their next available costumes/textiles sale.”

I saw that but thought you were referring to the previous post where you said you had emailed them and they hadn’t gotten back to you. I thought you meant that was a dead end.

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