Laundry Survey. When to hand wash?
Wanted to ask everyone what they feel comfortable tossing through the dryer, the machine, or only ever hand washing? How much credence to you give to the care tag. Is there a certain fabric that you’d always hand wash etc etc
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I’m always cold cycle high dry unless it’s hand wash or dry clean only 💀
if it's says hand wash only I do it. I also hand wash 'dry clean/only' wool clothing unless it has some kind of lining
What about like. A cotton poplin dress shirt. All my comme shirts say hand wash cold so I hand wash but I do wonder like…it’s poplin
i dont hand wash, just delicate mode on the washer
i dry only my work clothes and like socks and stuff
only think i ingore the care tag on was my sillage shirt beacuse its 100% cotten so dry clean only is dumb
I’m lazy so it’d go in delicates and then hang to dry
laundry bags + delicate tap cold 4 life
That may just have to the move it’s impossible to washout any stain remover or anything in a hand wash 🙄
Can a laundry bag fit a whole shirt though I always thought those were just for like undies n stuff
Yes! I have a couple for extra voluminous pants that can easily fit the biggest shirt u own(:
Oh sick where did u cop
U put ur EK in the wash n stuff?
not the wool, but my shirt and cotten pants yeah, the site just says machine wash delicate
cold of course
and usualy not with a whole lot of other stuff
:bruh: should probably get a bag tho
Yeah ofc ofc. Does ur delicates setting have the spin cycle
just some cheapo mesh bags from amazon lol
yes but i keep it on low or off
Hmmm I don’t have in unit laundry and am cursed with ancient top loaders. Which I think is the source of some of my anxiety
But it does have a delicates setting
Ahh if it's shared top loaders I wouldn't fuck around - too easy to get someone who used a shitload of bleach prior to u and u get hit with residue stains
Yeah I would be doing more hand washing if we didn’t have our own quite nice side load that I know no one uses bleach in
Yeah I had some dead stock OG 107’s from the 50’s that have some subtle bleached out spots on them now and honestly it’s rlly scarred me
Id be running a rinse cycle before every wash oooooof
I've only run into trouble machine washing with very fine fuzzy low gauge knits (usually hair fibers like alpaca and cashmere) and hardy British heritage wool that was also extremely fuzzy. Both felted and shrank in the wash. I just hand wash those now. If you plan on handwashing often, I'd invest in a spin dryer or a laundry wringer.
Everything else goes on cold delicate cycle in garment bags
Silk, artificial silks, blends, wool, alpaca, cashmere, angora (both rabbit and goat), bast fibers (linen, ramie, etc), fine cottons, etc.
If you have the cash, I'd probably dry clean fine silks since they get a bit fuzzy in the wash.
Bonded fabrics tend to not do well in the wash too, like some wool coats and most suits. Wouldn't mess around with those; get them dry cleaned.
They all get air dryed.
Haven't felt the need to do this but if you want to be extra careful you can roll and pin them: https://youtu.be/JrdZY-Cxppg?si=59KGloK0iAOatp9e&t=316
Gentleman's Gazette
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no idea if that's good for clothing but I always cold wash everything and hang to dry unless I need still the clothes today or if there are more clothes than space in the clothesline
hand-wash is hand-wash
i hand-wash anything tagged as such (as of now it's my one silk shirt) plus knits and things like ties and handkerchiefs
most other things are cold wash + dry low x2 (this is largely a concession to mr zeo, i usually take my stuff about after one run)