red wine spill...

[johninla]

Tis the season and, at a holiday party, someone bumped into me and, yes, spilled red wine on the sleeve or my sport coat. I went to the rest room and, with a damp cloth, blotted it. There does not appear to be a stain. Should I leave it at that or have the jacket dry cleaned?

 

[sho'nuff]

i heard upon spilling red wine on clothes you have to spill white wine onto the stain before it sets in. or club soda.


if there is no stain after immediately blotting out and is localized only to your arm and you cannot see it, there is no need to dry clean.

 

[dah328]

The color of the stain may have been neutralized, but sugars in the wine are probably still in the jacket. Should it be heated enough to caramelize sugar before you clean the jacket, you will end up with a permanent brown caramelized sugar stain. Generally speaking, this is more of a problem with cotton shirts that are ironed before the sugars are completely washed out of the shirt, but I would still be careful with the jacket.

 

[AskAndyAboutClothes]

johninla:

You did the right thing, but you need to have the sport jacket dry cleaned!

Here's some specifics from my book The Encyclopedia of Men's Clothes:

ALCOHOL
(wine, liquor, beer) Sponge the stain with cold water. Then rub with detergent and rinse thoroughly. The old home remedy of rubbing salt on a wine stain can often set the stain.

Launder with detergent in hottest water safe for the fabric. Do not use soap (bar, flake, or detergents containing natural soap), since soap could make stain permanent or at least more difficult to remove.

Soak tough stains for 30 minutes in 1 quart of warm water and 1 teaspoon of enzyme presoak product.

To remove old or set stains may require washing with bleach that is safe for the fabric. Always check for colorfastness first.

There is also some evidence that whole milk placed on a red wine stain and allowed to sit for a day will help remove the stain through the active enzymes in whole mike which "eat" the wine pigment.

If all the sugars are not removed a brown stain will appear when the fabric is heated in the dryer or is ironed, as the sugar is caramelized.

Andy

 

[6waters]

http://www.stratsplace.com/patty_wine_stain.html

This is one link that talks about the hydrogen peroxide and dishwashing detergent recipe for red wine stain removal.

I have used this myself and it worked exactly as promised.

I was seated by someone at a black tie dinner who had a nasty habit of projected a tiny drop of wine left on his lip in a shotgun spray pattern all over the front of my white formal shirt.

I did not even notice until I got home hours later, but my shirt had a spray of tiny red wine droplets that covered an area the size of a dinner plate. Hours elapsed before I noticed so I did not take any immediate steps to reduce the damage.

I mixed up this cocktail, equal parts I believe, and set about dabbing with a q-tip. I washed and hang dried the shirt. I missed a few, but repeated the task and to my amazement there was no trace of the red wine.

Friends of mine have used this technique on carpet and furniture with similar success

Good luck

 

[Full Canvas]

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[thisisme]

white shirt + red wine.... is the shirt a goner?

 

[Jolly Green]

I used 1/2 cup bleach and 1/2 cup dishwasher detergent in the washing machine. Let it soak for 45 min and then wash. Deal with bleach smell however you choose.

Took out ink stain from accidentally washing my pen with a load of whites. Works fine on whites, but I understand it will bleach out colored clothes, even with color safe bleach.

Cheers,
D