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    How to do It: Stiff Starch Grandma's Way

    I know what you mean about not getting that "high gloss" finish on collars. I would try pressing the collars face down on a sheet of tin (aluminum?) foil. This might give the smoothest surface possible, which would decrease the ironed texture that the starch mimics when pressed.
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    Highland Dress

    As an aside, "sgian dubh" translates from scottish gaelic as "black knife". In this usage, "black" = "hidden" and is also the meaning of "black" in "the Black Watch regiment" (they were hidden and "watched" the border--with England). Many people think--wrongly-- that it's a black knife because...

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