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The Laundress: Lindsey Boyd

2020-07-27 00:00:00 +0000 UTC ·1h 5m ·by Guy Raz / NPR
The Laundress: Lindsey Boyd
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About this episode

In the late 1990s, while working in high-end fashion in NYC, Lindsey Boyd came to despise the weekly ritual of dry-cleaning; not only was it expensive, but it often did damage to her clothes. So she and college friend Gwen Whiting studied up on the science of dirty laundry to create The Laundress: a