EG track pants, dry-clean only?

[cmyr]

So I picked up a couple pairs of the engineered garments sweat pants (they might be called 'climbing pants?) to wear around the house, and it says on the tag that they're dry-clean only. Is that some kind of joke? I own a fair bit of different EG stuff, and it's not like they ask you to dry-clean everything. What is it about the sweat pants that would do poorly in a wet-wash?

 

[dilemma]

Maybe they will shrink too much in the wash?

 

[robin]

Most likely to prevent shrinkage++. It might also induce pilling if you machine wash them too much. I'd guess that you could safely hand wash them though.

 

[timpoblete]

Any pics? Can't say I've seen these around.

 

[denimdestroyedmylife]

maybe you are supposed to wear them while your other pants are at the dry cleaners only?