My sweaters are pilled. My shoes are scuffed. My skirts have random threads coming out. My thin knit tops have pulls. My favourite shirt has a small salad dressing stain just to the left of my belly button. Your sweaters look new, your shoes look immaculate, you generally look pulled together. How do you do it?
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posted by Kololo
on Oct 7, 2012 -
29 answers
How can I get dry-erase (Expo) marker out of my white dress shirt? I threw rubbing alcohol, Shout, and a bleach pen at it. No visible difference from any of them immediately or after a wash, but it faded slightly in the dryer. I am tempted to do it all over again, but I'm worried about the impact those chemicals and washing over and over again is going to have on my new shirt!
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posted by Vexir
on Jul 7, 2012 -
19 answers
Sartorial emergency! I accidentally put my wife's new summer dress in the dryer, and it shrunk. (D'oh!) I would like to buy her a replacement, but the online store says that her size/color is out of stock ...
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posted by Dr. Wu
on Jun 12, 2012 -
24 answers
I am looking for a clothes washing machine to fit into a relatively small apartment's bathroom. The bathroom was not originally intended for the installation of a washing machine, though there is just barely sufficient space, so I'm looking for something that is sort of tall and narrow, or shallower than normal in dimensions, not cube shaped like the typical front loading machine.
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posted by thewalrus
on May 27, 2012 -
12 answers
What's the best way to remove a small grease stain and a pen mark from a down coat?
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posted by krisken
on Nov 21, 2011 -
8 answers
My red-on-white polka-dot dress bled in the laundry... onto itself. Is there any way to remove the pink stains while preserving the print?
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posted by Bardolph
on Nov 4, 2011 -
5 answers
Is there anything I can soak clothing in to get the dye to set instead of rinsing away?
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posted by oh yeah!
on May 28, 2011 -
15 answers
I am interested in marking some of my more valuable clothing with ultra-violet ink. Does anyone know of consumer-side ways to do this? All the ultra-violet inks I see on the consumer market are designed for stamping skin, not cloth.
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posted by jpallan
on Mar 1, 2011 -
2 answers
Emergency Laundry Question: I had some bad laundry experiences over the weekend. A dry cleaner left this awful kerosene smell in a jacket, which they tried to cover with perfume. Another laundromat over-bleached my dress shirts. How would I go about removing the odors -- of inept dry cleaning and bleach -- from these clothes tonight?
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posted by jason's_planet
on Nov 8, 2010 -
4 answers
How do you arrange worn clothing? I tend to wear clothes more than once before laundering them, especially pants and outerwear, and usually drop them on the chair or the bed. Are you supposed to fold them up and put them in with the cleaned clothes?
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posted by Busoni
on Sep 6, 2010 -
26 answers
LaundryFilter: I recently bought some stretch cotton pants. According to the label, stretch cotton is defined as c. 97-98% cotton, with the remainder being spandex. Unfortunately, that very same label informs me that I'm supposed to line dry these pants, which is enormously inconvenient for me. Could I get away with putting these through a few minutes in a regular dryer on the low dry/delicates setting or would that destroy the pants?
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posted by jason's_planet
on Apr 7, 2010 -
17 answers
After three washes-and-dryings I want some new 100% cotton t-shirts and boxer shorts to keep shrinking but I get the feeling they're not gonna. Am I right?
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posted by judomadonna
on Jul 3, 2009 -
4 answers
How do you keep your laundry system running smoothly in a bi-level (or larger) house? I want to hear how others have set up hampers, etc or otherwise established a system to efficiently move clean and dirty clothes to and from the laundry room.
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posted by jacksides
on Mar 2, 2009 -
17 answers
Any tried and true solutions/methods for removing deodorant build-up from the armpit area of T-shirts?
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posted by karizma
on Sep 6, 2008 -
16 answers
How do I remove awful, greasy restaurant smells from my clothing? I work eight hours a day at a small, enclosed cafe. I come home smelling of this particular mixture of grease and cafe food (not in a delicious way). It comes off of me in the shower--but after eight months of this the smell seems to be inexorably attached to my clothing. How do I get rid of it?
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posted by schroedinger
on Sep 3, 2008 -
23 answers
I recently bought a beautiful burgundy sweater coat. Unfortunately, I failed to notice the wash & care instructions, which state "Hand wash cold/separately." How exactly does one go about hand washing a large piece of clothing? The tag says "93% acrylic, 5% polyester, 2% wool." Is there any other way I can get this garment cleaned? Would Woolite be an option? Dry cleaning?
posted by invisible ink
on Feb 26, 2008 -
13 answers
How do you take care of bras so that they stay in the best shape for the longest?
posted by arcticwoman
on Jul 2, 2007 -
25 answers
What's causing my clothes to occasionally come out of the wash with blotchy spots where the dye has been lightened/removed?
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posted by cadge
on Aug 2, 2006 -
13 answers
I have a lot of cotton t-shirts, of the medium-to-heavy weight kind that usually have something printed on them. There seem to be two distinct kinds of cotton fabric in the shirts:
Good: After a few washes, the shirt becomes soft and kind of broken in. Bad: the shirt never really becomes soft or broken in, and worse, inevitably comes out of the dryer with (clean) lint and cat hair all over it. So I have two questions about this:
1. What accounts for the different outcomes for two 100% cotton shirts?
2. Is there any solution, ASIDE from using fabric softener? Any non-nasty alternatives to fabric softener?
posted by everichon
on Mar 15, 2005 -
9 answers
