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•Created by carryTHEflag117 on 1/14/2025 in #questions-and-advice
Shirt Fit
Nothing screaming at me, though perhaps more pictures/views may help. Perhaps the collar is a bit on the large side, and the sleeves a bit longer than necessary.
You didn't ask - but you're wearing your trousers very low on the torso!
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Mmfad
•Created by Raggie on 12/2/2024 in #questions-and-advice
Alternatives to Dry Cleaning
Fwiw I haven't found it taking very long to dry my garments at all and I always air-dry, but this is highly sensitive to environment
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•Created by Raggie on 12/2/2024 in #questions-and-advice
Alternatives to Dry Cleaning
Yeah it is a challenge. Well I guess I'm not too knowledge of the methods you're mentioning, I'll look into it - whatever works for you ig
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•Created by Raggie on 12/2/2024 in #questions-and-advice
Alternatives to Dry Cleaning
When you dredge the garment out of the bucket, squeeze it a little by hand (do not twist/wring) then roll it into a bath towel for 10 minutes to absorb the majority of the water very gentle, then hang dry
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Mmfad
•Created by Raggie on 12/2/2024 in #questions-and-advice
Alternatives to Dry Cleaning
Yeah so spin drying isn't high on agitation but the heat and dry air is damaging to wool.
Centrifigal pressure / wringing can also be quite hard on delicate fabrics like wool, it can warp/distort fibres
I use a dehumidifier. Running it for a day or two for these garments costs a couple bucks max, and it extends the lifetime of garments
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Mmfad
•Created by Raggie on 12/2/2024 in #questions-and-advice
Alternatives to Dry Cleaning
Spin drying and wringing are both very damaging. Do you live in a very humid environment?
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Mmfad
•Created by Raggie on 12/2/2024 in #questions-and-advice
Alternatives to Dry Cleaning
But my process with a bucket is totally agitation free, so there's no risk at all.
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•Created by Raggie on 12/2/2024 in #questions-and-advice
Alternatives to Dry Cleaning
Yeah that's a very different kettle of fish, I've heard it's a thing but I've always been too wary to try it.
If you want to throw suit jacketing into a washing cycle in a garment bag, you actually need to roll up the garment reasonably tightly and tie it like so, so that there's no agitation of the fabric, then put that into a garment bag. Garment bag alone doesn't help that much - it's mainly to avoid stressing long/thin strap thingies so they dont tear afaik
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•Created by Raggie on 12/2/2024 in #questions-and-advice
Alternatives to Dry Cleaning
Canvassing has always been alright
I think fusing always bubbles eventually but it does so mostly with heat - this process uses none. Although in fairness I've done this to many fused jackets and I've never seen any evidence of bubbling.
When you say you've had trouble, do you mean with a machine wash?
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Mmfad
•Created by Raggie on 12/2/2024 in #questions-and-advice
Alternatives to Dry Cleaning
I've done this dozens of times over years with wool overcoats and jackets, blends and 100% wool, lined and unlined, linings made from polyester, viscose, and bemberg cupro. I've had no shrinking and no maleffects of any kind. Shrinking is caused only by hot water and agitation.
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•Created by Raggie on 12/2/2024 in #questions-and-advice
Alternatives to Dry Cleaning
I never dry-clean anything and always wash at home
Your average dry-cleaners use a very harsh process that involves very rough treatment - throwing your clothing into an industrial-type washing machine with fast-evaporating solvents before roughly machine-pressing them into shape. Both the solvents and the process are very harsh to clothing. The fluids used are often not cycled very frequently, so dry-cleaning causes build-up of dirt and debris in your clothing.
The process is very simple and low effort:
1. Fill large bucket with tap-cold water
2. Small amount of appropriate gentle conditioner. I have heard that Woolite was reformulated in recent years for use with women's lingerie, which is apparently it's largest market now, and that it's now harsher than alternatives. Not sure how true that is, but I use Eucalan for wool (it's lanolin-fortified) and Soak detergent for everything else.
3. In go the garments. Soak for a sizeable amount of time - I've soaked wool jacketing for hours, but this really isn't necessary. Too long might damage certain fibres (silk?), but wool will in general be A-OK.
4. Soak and Eucalan are both no-rinse, so I dredge them out, squeeze them a bit over the bucket, lay them over a towel, and roll it up (not too tightly) to absorb most of the water weight. Leave for ~10 minutes (too long will risk pushing wrinkles into the cloth, particularly the shoulder padding)
5. Unroll and hang-dry. Wool jacketing will dry essentially wrinkle-free (no need to iron/press afterwards). Wool soaks up a lot of water, which will start dripping out the bottom - I use a tea-towel/kitchen towel to just squeeze out water from the bottom of the jacket and sleeves a couple times during the drying process until nothing is pooling any longer.
By the end of the first day, it'll be pretty dry.
Within 48-60 hours, it'll be fully dry and wrinkle free.
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Mmfad
•Created by Raggie on 12/2/2024 in #questions-and-advice
Alternatives to Dry Cleaning
How come?
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•Created by Byrnie on 9/29/2024 in #questions-and-advice
Acceptable chisel or reprehensible square?
on a loafer its fine, on a lace-up it'd look a bit worse i feel
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•Created by bishopcorrigan on 9/29/2024 in #questions-and-advice
@ suit nerds, help me figure out search terms to find a suit in this fabric
Now you look like a minister of coal
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Mmfad
•Created by HJJJ on 9/17/2024 in #questions-and-advice
Looking for cheap-ish clothes
Uniqlo may have some options for you?
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•Created by zenbtw on 9/15/2024 in #questions-and-advice
slim/straight cut cream and stone grey pants/chinos?
If you're interested in MTM, then get some measurements and order from Luxire. Can get good stuff fully customizable at $100 per pair
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Mmfad
•Created by pixelized on 9/14/2024 in #questions-and-advice
does this work good a separate blazer, or does it look like an orphaned suit jacket?
Frankly, while it poses additional challenges, I'm of the opinion nearly any 'orphaned' suit jacket can be made to work reasonably easily, it just has to be done with some intentionality. Navy suit-separate jacket with grey flannel trousers is one of the most common and classic looks around, and it's not because it doesn't work.
On a separate note, those trousers aren't puddling, they're practically forming a lake
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Mmfad
•Created by gudetama on 9/15/2024 in #questions-and-advice
French cuffs inside suit jacket -- too bulgy?
1. There isn't really too much of a difference in looks in a french-cuff and barrel-cuff shirt in themselves; any difference in looks would derive from the cufflink being worn. If you have some really sexy cufflinks, there's a big difference. Likewise if you have some really shitty cufflinks, there's a big difference. On a day-to-day basis, if the cufflinks aren't particularly good or bad, I wouldn't say there's very much difference in the looks aspect.
2. Those cuffs are indeed too large - a bit smaller and they'd still be too large from a sartorial standpoint but perfectly OK from a 'no one is going to notice standpoint'
3. If it makes you feel more comfortable, sure. It's more 'rakish' than 'casual' imo, so it's not a huge deal if you do so at your wedding. It is a deliberate choice that creates a certain image, if noticed. But it's objectively not a big deal.
4. If it's my wedding, I'd try to wear a french cuff shirt - the same for going to someone else's. But I don't think its a very important thing in the overall dress element, particularly if its a daytime wedding (as I imagine it is, considering you've chosen not to wear a tuxedo?)
Are you in the UK? I'm US/UK based and french cuffs aren't really nearly as much of a thing in the US as they are in the UK. I think that outside of some specific countries, you could totally go ahead with barrel cuffs with no one noticing the difference. And even in the UK, the vast majority of men are not particularly obsessed with this distinction.
On a side note, this is an example speaking to the failings of Indochino - they're actually just not very knowledgeable about clothing, at all levels of production and including the sales reps in-store (in my experience, anyway). That cuff should never have been made with those dimensions.
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