Care For Your (Denim/ Wool/ Cotton)

[stevesoul]

You guys probably know this already, but I'm new to all this and it worked for me, so I thought I'd share it. Got my new jeans - DC4001, hot soaked to get shrinkage out (.75 in length, measured straight after drying, became .5 after a little wearing), then sent them off to Giles for hemming. Got them back, obviously un-roped hems, so, because I don't aim to wash them for months, soaked the hems, hung to dry, and noticed that there was plenty of roping on the inside, but none to speak of on the outside.

Struck me that this was because the denim bunches up on the inside of the circle (tighter radius), and tries to stretch on the outside.

Soaked agin, inside out, hung out to dry, still inside out, in our glorious English sunshine til dried to a (crinkle-cut) crisp, checked and hey presto, lovely roping. no washing involved.

(Cuff wearers ignore…)

[Tripleterror]

Duly ignored  ::)

[jimmy]

Pretty much common knowledge I thought and really it's still washing just not the whole jeans.

[Morose_Penguin]

Recently arrived via EBay:

Can anyone recommend a good/cheap-ish product to get the patch supple again? It's rather dried out.

Thanks.

M_P

realise this may not be the correct topic to post this in and for that I'm sorry.

[Seul]

M_P:

http://www.ironheart.co.uk/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=5&products_id=173

[Morose_Penguin]

First place I looked

Out of Stock

More Morose than usual

[Seul]

There are some on eBay.com - US sellers though…

[Morose_Penguin]

Once again Ebay comes to my rescue/steals my money.

Checked out DC4 as well. Their only leather care product is 45€ which is a bit too rich for my pocket at the moment.

[Seul]

Or order through Obenaufs.com

14 for the polish, 9 $ for shipping to €urope…

[Seul]

Just ordered - came to 16 € ppd. Not too bad ey!..

[derivative666]

I love Obenaufs

[Max Power]

I always use Red Wing Boot oil and Mink oil. Much cheaper than obenaufs or the DC4 thing. 5-10€.

[simonc]

Vasiline

[hectic]

Washed my superblack shirt for the first time yesterday - with some trepidation. However, following Dr Pat's advise (no flakes, no spin - I used Bronners), it now looks great.

I thought I would never wash it but I can now recommend.

It is as stiff as ever - in your face son of Jorel.

[Max Power]

Does this beast ever get soft? I seriously doubt it.

[hectic]

I think you would have to work outdoors for a very long time before it even began to drape.

[DrPat]

I'm glad the washing was successful.  If anyone else is planning to machine wash the super black, I would also recommend turning it inside out to avoid any visible abrasions.  I haven't noticed any on either side of my shirt though.

[hectic]

FYI: I did not machine wash, it was a handwash in the bath with Bronners.

[Max Power]

i also only do handwashes, but I do that with all of my denim.

[Seul]

I might work in my IHSH-08 on December 24 and 31 (combined with IH-9634Z) just to make things interesting… In fact: coming to work on those days, is worse than attending your mum's funeral... The whole month of December is one huge massgrave actually... Horrible... Someone call Den Hague...