athanasius80
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One of my favorites has got noticeable sweat stains on the brim. White sweat salt on brown fabric doesn't look good, so how do I wash it?
Thanks!
Thanks!
How do you wash a baseball cap?
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maytagbear
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There's a plastic frame
called something like "Ball Cap Buddy," and it unsnaps, and a person puts the cap in, closes it, and then puts the whole thing into the washing machine. I don't usually wear ball caps, because it makes me look like Michael Moore, but I do once in a while.....
I got mine at a local variety store for about 5.00.
Lawrence/Maytagbear
called something like "Ball Cap Buddy," and it unsnaps, and a person puts the cap in, closes it, and then puts the whole thing into the washing machine. I don't usually wear ball caps, because it makes me look like Michael Moore, but I do once in a while.....
I got mine at a local variety store for about 5.00.
Lawrence/Maytagbear
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Re: Harriet Carter Mail Order:
Hi! Christopher, I just happened to have bought one of these Frames {see below} recently and I washer a Baseball Cap in the Top-Rack of my Dishwasher, along with the rest of the Load of Dishes and Glasses. The Cap was still slightly Wet, because I used a Non-Heat Dry, so I hung the Cap and Frame on my Squeege Hook in my Bathtub, for a couple/few Days, until it felt Dry.
What I did was I had found the item in the Postal Mail Catalog and I then went On-Line to the Site, entered the Item Number, then I copied the info onto an E-Mail, because I didn't have any extra Money at the time of finding it in the Catalog. Anyway, fortunately I happened to have saved my E-Mail info, so I could copy it to forward it to you here.
Cap Washer (E6558)
Cap Washer lets you clean caps in washing machine or dishwasher without wrinkling. Sturdy frame holds cap in tiptop shape during entire wash cycle. Just place soiled cap inside frame then toss in your washing machine or dishwasher. It comes out spotless without wrinkling or losing its shape. Perfect for baseball, hunting, golf caps, and visors, even wool caps. 12-1/2" x 8-1/2" x 5".
$7.98
Now: $4.98
Good Luck with getting one of these, hopefully it will still be on the Sale Price.
Peace, Happy Holidays and Kind Regards, Steve
SactoTeddyBear...
Hi! Christopher, I just happened to have bought one of these Frames {see below} recently and I washer a Baseball Cap in the Top-Rack of my Dishwasher, along with the rest of the Load of Dishes and Glasses. The Cap was still slightly Wet, because I used a Non-Heat Dry, so I hung the Cap and Frame on my Squeege Hook in my Bathtub, for a couple/few Days, until it felt Dry.
What I did was I had found the item in the Postal Mail Catalog and I then went On-Line to the Site, entered the Item Number, then I copied the info onto an E-Mail, because I didn't have any extra Money at the time of finding it in the Catalog. Anyway, fortunately I happened to have saved my E-Mail info, so I could copy it to forward it to you here.
Cap Washer (E6558)
Cap Washer lets you clean caps in washing machine or dishwasher without wrinkling. Sturdy frame holds cap in tiptop shape during entire wash cycle. Just place soiled cap inside frame then toss in your washing machine or dishwasher. It comes out spotless without wrinkling or losing its shape. Perfect for baseball, hunting, golf caps, and visors, even wool caps. 12-1/2" x 8-1/2" x 5".
$7.98
Now: $4.98
Good Luck with getting one of these, hopefully it will still be on the Sale Price.
Peace, Happy Holidays and Kind Regards, Steve
SactoTeddyBear...
sudsmaster
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The frames also say you can put them in the dishwasher, but I think mine gets a bit too hot for most hats.
I've had reasonable results washing one woolen cap in the front loader, warm water. It did shrink a little but it was too big in the first place anyway.
I've had reasonable results washing one woolen cap in the front loader, warm water. It did shrink a little but it was too big in the first place anyway.
All our ball caps seem to be top shelf dishwasher safe. They are damp coming our of the Bosch. I just put them on a folded towel, reshape the cap and let them dry in a sunny window. In the summer they go outside in the sun to dry. I have never used one of those plastic gizmos.
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Hand washing is an option.
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My last companion used the top-rack of the diswasher. Chlorinated detergent does fade them, so beware!
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Warning - Ball Caps Bad
The ball cap is one of the worst things that ever happened to heads. Seed and Feed companies give them to farmers who started sporting them instead of brimmed hats. Now the level of skin cancer has increased dramatically.
Chris, wear a proper hat and save the ball caps for ball games (and then only on the field). You might start with a classic teardrop fedora and maybe later a Chicago center dent and, if you are in a dapper mood, maybe a homburg. Of course, some proper straws for the summer.
But, please understand that the ball cap is an insidious blight that has spread across the nation. Ball caps and do-rags are marginal excuses for proper head gear.
http://www.millerhats.com
The ball cap is one of the worst things that ever happened to heads. Seed and Feed companies give them to farmers who started sporting them instead of brimmed hats. Now the level of skin cancer has increased dramatically.
Chris, wear a proper hat and save the ball caps for ball games (and then only on the field). You might start with a classic teardrop fedora and maybe later a Chicago center dent and, if you are in a dapper mood, maybe a homburg. Of course, some proper straws for the summer.
But, please understand that the ball cap is an insidious blight that has spread across the nation. Ball caps and do-rags are marginal excuses for proper head gear.
http://www.millerhats.com
Using the dishwasher for baseball caps somehow sounds like doing the dishes while sitting in the bathtub. LOL
On second thought I`d probably give it a try if I had a TL.
In a FL the handwash or wool cycle with no other clothes in the same load works great for that.
On second thought I`d probably give it a try if I had a TL.
In a FL the handwash or wool cycle with no other clothes in the same load works great for that.
All my baseball caps go in my top loader with a regular colored load (warm) on regular or perm. press. Then straight into the dryer (medium heat) - no issues. The brim comes out looking fine and once I put it on it stretches back into shape. Do check if your caps are colorfast though.
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I've tried washing mine the in the washer and they always come out losing their fit. They just don't seem to fit right afterwards. What was the website URL that has the cap washing frame? Maybe I'll try that.
I have a ball cap frame, but am not really impressed by the results of washing it in the dishwasher. I have an off white cap and the rip didn't come always totally clean. BTW, i never put other stuff in the dishwasher together with the cap.
I go the handwashing route, myself.
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I'm with rapunzel on this one... I just throw it in the top loader with a load of colors. But I let it air dry. It regains its shape when it's back on your head...
~Fred
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turboace
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Same here, I just throw them in with colors and then hang from the door knob in the laundry room to dry. Always seems to work fine and its the only way I can get the nasty sweaty smell out of my favorite work out hat.
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Cleaning ball caps
I recommend you wait for a rainy day then drive at high speed on a freeway overpass and fling it out the window. No detergent necessary.
I recommend you wait for a rainy day then drive at high speed on a freeway overpass and fling it out the window. No detergent necessary.
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"Does anyone STILL wear.....
a HAT?"
I'll drink to that!
I just love that song.
a HAT?"
I'll drink to that!
I just love that song.
Mark, it seems to me that ball caps are more of a fashion statement anymore than an actual means to provide shade.
My partner has TONS of ball caps/golf caps. Since he has so many and they often get the sweat stains described in this thread's original post from Chris, we throw them in the FL machine and wash with a load of colors. My partner swears that our long-gone TL's shredded the caps, but we haven't had any trouble running them through the FL's. Usually they stay out of the dryer. They regain their shape as soon as he puts them on. Visors tend to be provided with a permanent bend in them from the factory these days.
Have never tried the dishwasher thing. That detergent seems too harsh to me and I can't get behind mixing people soils with food soils. I also think some agitation is necessary to really loosen up all the dirt and sweat.
I rarely wear a ball cap. They seem to all want to sit on my head somewhat askew and I'm constantly having to straighten them out. But they provide a very cute look on lots of men, especially the big bears in their big pick-ups. WOOOOF!
My partner has TONS of ball caps/golf caps. Since he has so many and they often get the sweat stains described in this thread's original post from Chris, we throw them in the FL machine and wash with a load of colors. My partner swears that our long-gone TL's shredded the caps, but we haven't had any trouble running them through the FL's. Usually they stay out of the dryer. They regain their shape as soon as he puts them on. Visors tend to be provided with a permanent bend in them from the factory these days.
Have never tried the dishwasher thing. That detergent seems too harsh to me and I can't get behind mixing people soils with food soils. I also think some agitation is necessary to really loosen up all the dirt and sweat.
I rarely wear a ball cap. They seem to all want to sit on my head somewhat askew and I'm constantly having to straighten them out. But they provide a very cute look on lots of men, especially the big bears in their big pick-ups. WOOOOF!
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Cute, cute, cute!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Aaarrrggghhhhhhhhh!!!!! Cute! No, please, not cute! I hate cute. I think ball caps are a plague. You wouldn't believe how hard I have tried to avoid cute in my sculpture/assemblages.
Oh, I know, I have yielded now and again, like when I put a Mickey Mouse doll in a Kenmore Rocket. It almost made me gag but I knew the 'cute' would be a hit. Oh, okay, there we have it, an inconsitency. But you know, Emerson said, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds..."
But for heaven's sake. Now that men have put the long hair 70's behind them so they don't have to worry about "hat hair", can't we return to a proper brimmed chapeaux? Is that so wrong? Is that too much to ask?
Aaarrrggghhhhhhhhh!!!!! Cute! No, please, not cute! I hate cute. I think ball caps are a plague. You wouldn't believe how hard I have tried to avoid cute in my sculpture/assemblages.
Oh, I know, I have yielded now and again, like when I put a Mickey Mouse doll in a Kenmore Rocket. It almost made me gag but I knew the 'cute' would be a hit. Oh, okay, there we have it, an inconsitency. But you know, Emerson said, "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds..."
But for heaven's sake. Now that men have put the long hair 70's behind them so they don't have to worry about "hat hair", can't we return to a proper brimmed chapeaux? Is that so wrong? Is that too much to ask?
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Fashion Statement
Fashion Statement. FASHION STATEMENT!!!! You call a ball cap fashion!? AAAaaarrrggghhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!
Oh, we are sinking...sinking...oh, the despair, the humanity. We have reached the stage that we are wearing ball caps in public. Even after five. No wonder militant muslims feel we need to go. We are depraved.
You know, this almost invites a picture thread - like worst dressed. Ball caps on parade. Makes me shudder.
Fashion Statement. FASHION STATEMENT!!!! You call a ball cap fashion!? AAAaaarrrggghhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!
Oh, we are sinking...sinking...oh, the despair, the humanity. We have reached the stage that we are wearing ball caps in public. Even after five. No wonder militant muslims feel we need to go. We are depraved.
You know, this almost invites a picture thread - like worst dressed. Ball caps on parade. Makes me shudder.
OK, my bad. I should have said what I really meant, which is HOT, not "cute." But like it or not, ball caps are considered part of an outfit by many men. I remember when I worked in Oakland in 1996 a nicely toned 30-ish guy who came in from SF every day always wore a ball cap, and every last one of them had a very pronounced curve to its bill. These days caps already have curved bills but back then it was a way guys were altering the caps themselves for a different look. It's just a matter of taste whether one thinks the ball cap is a good look or an abomination. For me, add a nice goatee to the cap and my head will ALWAYS turn. Goatees were a fad I didn't care for in the beginning. But then with the resulting increase in the number of men sporting hot facial hair, I embraced the goatee and have never looked back. I shaved my beard down to a goatee a few years ago when my company was hit by a strike and haven't had a beard since.
Interesting mention of wearing caps in public. Keeping up with your theme, when we were in Normandy and visiting at a neighboring family's house, there were some comments made in French that we didn't catch and our hosts told us on the way home that they had remarked that my partner didn't remove his cap upon entering their house. And I think you're exactly correct that if he had been wearing a "proper brimmed" hat it would have been second nature to him to remove it.
I like the picture thread idea but in the interest of equal time I might have to counteract the worst dressed pix with some of men who look mighty fine in them.
Interesting mention of wearing caps in public. Keeping up with your theme, when we were in Normandy and visiting at a neighboring family's house, there were some comments made in French that we didn't catch and our hosts told us on the way home that they had remarked that my partner didn't remove his cap upon entering their house. And I think you're exactly correct that if he had been wearing a "proper brimmed" hat it would have been second nature to him to remove it.
I like the picture thread idea but in the interest of equal time I might have to counteract the worst dressed pix with some of men who look mighty fine in them.
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..but, maybe a NewsBoy
Okay Ralph, let's try to work on this. I will dig out a few ball caps (never laundered, mind you) to show you a ball cap with character. Maybe tomorrow. (...and let's not forget about a possible pic thread).
But in the meantime, if we must talk 'caps' how about something with some class, like a newsboy. And I don't mean one of those Kangols that a mother puts on the head of CPA who is still living at home when she pushes him out in the snow to do the books for a five & dime.
I mean a real news boy - like a Big Apple or an 8/4 - now we're talking caps. You like it?
Okay Ralph, let's try to work on this. I will dig out a few ball caps (never laundered, mind you) to show you a ball cap with character. Maybe tomorrow. (...and let's not forget about a possible pic thread).
But in the meantime, if we must talk 'caps' how about something with some class, like a newsboy. And I don't mean one of those Kangols that a mother puts on the head of CPA who is still living at home when she pushes him out in the snow to do the books for a five & dime.
I mean a real news boy - like a Big Apple or an 8/4 - now we're talking caps. You like it?
My mother has something like that! Hers is purple.
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I've noticed that a number of men who wear ball caps indoors do so to cover their shiny bald heads. If it's someone at work or school who I've only seen with a ball cap on, it can be kind of a jolt to see them without the cap. For bald men, the cap makes a lot of sense outdoors, as it helps to prevent sunburn.
I have a lot of baseball caps but I don't often wear one. I find it difficult to get a good fit - with a full head of straight silky hair the caps general tend to work loose. But they are great on hot sunny days to keep the head cool - even with a full head of hair. And woolen watch caps? Forget it. I'd need a chin strap to keep one of those on!
I have a lot of baseball caps but I don't often wear one. I find it difficult to get a good fit - with a full head of straight silky hair the caps general tend to work loose. But they are great on hot sunny days to keep the head cool - even with a full head of hair. And woolen watch caps? Forget it. I'd need a chin strap to keep one of those on!
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I threw my yankees cap on this morning to run out and grab the paper and a cup of coffee because I didn't want to shower and put product in my hair, nor did I want to show off my bed head.
Yeah, about the only time I wear a ball cap is to cover bed head when I have to be out and about early in the morning and I choose to delay showering in favor of a little more sleep.
Not so sure I can warm up to a newsboy look. Too boyish for me!
Not so sure I can warm up to a newsboy look. Too boyish for me!
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Windy Hill
Windy Hill is 160 acres of salvage, mostly automobile, in Minnesota. It is near where I sail and near where I grew up in a body shop (and our own salvage yard). Before leaving this life, my father got rid of all of his junk yard (much went to Windy Hill) and left the land the way he found it.
I am welcome to enter the Windy Hill yard anytime. Walking through the piles of wreckage on a summer Sunday morning is, for me, a spiritual experience.
Windy Hill is 160 acres of salvage, mostly automobile, in Minnesota. It is near where I sail and near where I grew up in a body shop (and our own salvage yard). Before leaving this life, my father got rid of all of his junk yard (much went to Windy Hill) and left the land the way he found it.
I am welcome to enter the Windy Hill yard anytime. Walking through the piles of wreckage on a summer Sunday morning is, for me, a spiritual experience.
