Thread Number: 67516
/ Tag: Modern Automatic Washers
Can a suit jacket be machine washed? |
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Post# 902453 , Reply# 1   10/10/2016 at 07:32 (2,726 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)   |   | |
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Due to the linings, interlinings, padding and other materials.
Consumer Reports tested "wet cleaning" several years ago and found while it was great for sweaters and some silks, anything that was tailored, fitted, etc... was better off dry cleaned. Places that do wet cleaning have all sorts of tensioning and finishing equipment to get things back into original shape after cleaning in water; sometimes it works, others it does not. |
Post# 902455 , Reply# 2   10/10/2016 at 07:51 (2,726 days old) by ozzie908 (Lincoln UK)   |   | |
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you may find you have to press the trousers but if you do them inside out to begin with as for the jacket I have a steam generator iron and found that hanging the jacket and steam it very heavily it will look as good as new without the iron sheen as you steam it without actually ironing it.
Oh and it was washed on a warm delicate cycle just warm enough to relax the fabric so it gave up the stains etc. Have also washed a leather bike suit and that came out like new :o) |
Post# 902537 , Reply# 5   10/10/2016 at 17:20 (2,726 days old) by logixx (Germany)   |   | |
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I wash my suit all the time. Delicate cycle, 40C/104F, 800 rpm spin and regular powdered or liquid detergent for colored clothes. The jacket gets washed (once a month) along with the pants and five shirts (weekly). Everything but the jacket is also fully tumble dried on medium heat.
I bought my suit from Primark = cheap. It still looks flawless. |
Post# 902564 , Reply# 6   10/10/2016 at 20:22 (2,726 days old) by GRWasher_expert (Athens)   |   | |
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On the video below,the guy washes his whole suit on a cold wash cycle with rinse hold on.On another video,the suit gets spun at 400 rpm CLICK HERE TO GO TO GRWasher_expert's LINK |
Post# 903032 , Reply# 7   10/14/2016 at 10:53 (2,722 days old) by rpms (ontario canada)   |   | |
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I bought a long suit jacket when they were in style back in the 90s. Liked it so much I couldn't get rid of it. I have wore it several times for Halloween. It has had fake blood on it, talc you name it. I have probably washed it 4-5 times. Never a problem. The lining does get wrinkled but you can't see it.
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Post# 903039 , Reply# 8   10/14/2016 at 12:04 (2,722 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands)   |   | |
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Post# 903087 , Reply# 9   10/14/2016 at 18:52 (2,722 days old) by imperial70 (MA USA)   |   | |
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I have washed an entire suit in my Whirlpool Imperial 70 on the knit gentle cycle. Suit came out wrinkle free and brand new looking. The suit was a wool blend. I miss that Washer. |
Post# 903092 , Reply# 10   10/14/2016 at 19:49 (2,722 days old) by neptunebob (Pittsburgh, PA)   |   | |
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Post# 903135 , Reply# 11   10/15/2016 at 08:23 (2,721 days old) by Frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie)   |   | |
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Post# 903260 , Reply# 12   10/16/2016 at 07:25 (2,720 days old) by neptunebob (Pittsburgh, PA)   |   | |
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Was that they were nearly indestructible. The polyester would never wear. There are probably leisure suits now in landfills that will be dug up 1000 years from now, with the people in the future wondering what were they thinking in the 70s?
John's Travolta's white polyester 3 piece suit in Saturday Night Fever was not a leisure suit but it was polyester and is probably hanging in some closet in Hollywood today, looking the same as in 1977. And what's the boys and the look they are giving? Do they really think a girl is going to want to date them in a pale blue leisure suit? |