For those who wash their own dress shirts - Do you mix with other clothes?

[Digmenow]

I have discontinued washing white tee shirts in bleach with the rest of the whites and the yellow/grey thing stopped instantly.

I wash my better dress shirts separately in cold water in the washing machine on the delicate cycle using Woolite with no apparent adverse effects. The downside to this information is that it only covers the span of a few months. All my previous "dress" shirts were polyester Perry Ellis and got no special treatment.

 

[ter1413]

I handwash my dress shirts in my sink at home and then hang dry. Of course I wash one at a time.

 

[mr.orange]

 

[OttoSkadelig]



I tend to do my dress shirts by themselves, primarily because I'm going to iron them afterwards and keeping the laundry batch size small and focused makes it easier. Also, since my dress shirts are the most expensive things I launder, the fewer other items in the batch the less chance there is that something wayward will be introduced (like a pen left in a pants pocket, etc.)

As an aside, I also toss my dress shirts in the dryer on super-low until just damp, including a couple of already dry, soft bath towels with them to reduce tumbling damage and shorten the drying time. I know that's a no-no for a lot of people, but it has worked well for me so far.

i wash all my dress shirts together, primarily because they get minimally soiled, and because the colors don't run at all.

i hang-dry all of my shirts.

 

[MyOtherLife]



I remember iammatt saying he expects his shirts to last 15 years when he buys them. I'd imagine for that level of quality he is probably dry-clean-only, but he might have some insight for sport shirts.

They'll last 15 years easy....if he has 150 of them in his rotation.

I handwash my dress shirts in my sink at home and then hang dry. Of course I wash one at a time.

I am in awe.

 

[Nicola]



It sucks that the soak feature is for 2 hours. Who has this kind of time?

Doesn't your machine have some sort of timer/delay feature? I just let it work over night. Wake up the shirts are washed. Summer they just need to be ironed. Rest of the year hang them for a bit first.

 

[bourbonbasted]



They'll last 15 years easy....if he has 150 of them in his rotation.

I know he has quite the rotation and considering the thread was dealing with Anna Matuozzo prices it is probably an awe-inspiring rotation at that.