How to avoid a tangle with your duvet cover

SIR – John Taylor (Letters, May 20) wants to know how to change a duvet cover “in a dignified manner”.

Place duvet on bed. Turn cover inside-out. Then, inserting both arms into this, catch hold of its corners, and, with the same grasp, catch hold of the two ends of the duvet. Shake down (an accomplice helps here). Iain Colquhoun

Swansea

SIR – My husband pulls the inside-out cover over his head with outstretched arms and, with one hand in each of the top corners, takes hold of two corners of the duvet.

I lift the cover back over his head – and, after one big shake, all that remains for me to do is fasten the buttons or zip. Joan Campanini

Twickenham, Middlesex

SIR – YouTube is the place to go. There are videos showing how to fit duvet covers in under two minutes. Arthur Davis

Warwick SIR – A simple design change would help: if the closed end of the cover had a four-inch opening at each corner, the duvet ends could be pushed through these from inside and gripped easily; then the remaining cover could be pulled back down. Nick Timms

Newark, Nottinghamshire

SIR – Maybe it is time for those who struggle with changing duvet covers to embrace Brexit and ditch the continental quilt in favour of the traditional sheets and blankets. Sarah Peck

Cockermouth, Cumbria

SIR – Katharine Whitehorn answered this in one of her unmissable Observer columns in the Sixties.

If I remember correctly, she suggested that, if suitably equipped, one should insert a small child into the fresh duvet cover, with instructions to crawl up to the top end, towing the duvet in. Jeremy Read

Sturminster Newton, Dorset