we all reuse

It's a bit indelicate to mention this, but it's really important when sourcing vintage fabrics and materials - other people have worn these clothes, and chances are they've not been washed since.

Check for

• moth holes, moth eggs (whitish tiny pearl like things, often seen with the cigar shaped husks of the already hatched wrigglers)

• fleas, lice or their eggs along seams.