WTF??? Yuck!!! 3 times is the maximum time I use jeans...Frank Pizzurro is a Nobel filthy one! LOL Maybe that's because they knows their jeans are no made with the quality they should be ??? "we are no big fans of never wash yuour jeans" like if it would be normal or acceptable are there really people that filthy around that never does? Every 5 to 6 months... U MAD?
I do have many black jeans from several years, and I always washed them with warm water and regular powders, still perfect as new and use them quite often.
Unless jeans or whatever is dark is not of good quality I don't feel I've to be worried about fading, that never happened for or our items, when they fades usually is because they're crappy stuff, infact some of the chinese boutique stuff I have not only have crappy fabrics and cotton but also crappy dyies, also happened once that despite I washed them first time just after I was home from the shopping they used to leave my legs anf undies full of a dark patina, the dye just transferred due to my sweat...
That's why if I buy something I prefer buy something that is more expensive but of good quality rather than buying many but of poor quality.....
I'd also never send something to dry cleaners, one reason is that I think it's waist of money since despite what labels says "dry clean only" or "no water wash" it turns out that I can water wash at home the same with perfect results, of course I never washed my mom's mink coat (that if I have to be honest I would have burned as I hate such stuff) , but I used to wash her meshes with rabbit collar and came out perfect, I also use to wash leather (reverse side, cold water, wool soap).... so even the ones marked "dry cleaning only" would be safe to be water washed (both by hand or machine) <span id="result_box" class="short_text" lang="en"><span class="hps">with</span> <span class="hps">due attention paid naturally</span></span>, I use to wash just about everything and results are always Perfect.
Second reason I hate "dry/solvent cleaning" is that I don't think that anything that is not washed with water is really clean.
Attending hotel and catering school we had to wear a suit as a school uniform for normal classes and reception/waiter courses, suits made out of wool of course...
I used to machine wash (cold/warm water delicate cycle) all my suits about 1 time every month and half, I had 5 suits and I used to let them to air/rest alternatively using each day one different....
They always came out perfectly and still have them after having using the same for 4 years..... first time my neighbor was shocked to see me hanging outside my wet suits, she was shocked to see they used to come out nice...she said she always used to send her husband's one (a bank employee) at dry cleaners as she thought they would have been ruined by water wash....she said she felt silly for having spents lots of money for dry cleaners in all those years.
I just said that as long as you wash them in a right way (cold/lukewarm water and wool cycle and detergent) they would not get ruined of course...she then started to wash theirs at home too, she only hand washed them though as she didn't feel safe to try the machine wash for hers even though she admired my results...she said her machine didn't have a specific cycle for wollens , just a generic delicate cycle that would wash at 50°c.... of course it was wise to don't in her machine.
My ones always been washed in the Filter-flo, she had an old AEG at the time...now she got a Speed Queen under my suggestion, but her husband now is retired and don't use suits anymore....
[this post was last edited: 7/17/2013-16:47]
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