#I could stand to avoid fleece/sythetics to begin with specifically because of this | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

eyrieofsynapses · 1 year ago

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gentle reminder to air-dry your fleece clothing and wash it in cold water if you want it to stay nice and soft <3

(fleece is made out of synthetic fibers that will quite literally deform/melt in the heat of a dryer! and no you can't really see it but it's one of the things that makes it pill and get rough and scratchy.

"no dryer" also goes for most items of clothing with graphics. tbh I don't know the exact reason behind that one, I think it depends on how it was printed on, but both my and friends' experience has proven dryers will fuck graphics up, and manufacturers will tell you the same)

#this announcement brought to you by a sad Synapse after someone else put my brand-new only-once-washed-before #ONCE super-soft hoodie into the dryer #and it is now already beginning to pill ;-;#it's not a massive difference but as someone who tends to be sensitive to these things it is Not Insignificant #I could stand to avoid fleece/sythetics to begin with specifically because of this #but goddamn it is HARD to find super soft and warm clothing that ISN'T that these days #anyway I have some old stuff I don't care about/it was already wrecked by the time I learned that dryers fuck fleece up and those will go in #but anything nice/new enough not to be fucked up stays on the drying rack #worth noting that it's gonna get rougher anyway over time but the process is in my experience notably slower #ugh anyway. this is why I usually wash my nicer stuff on my own but also most of my stuff is darker and this is light green so it went in a #shared load with the rest of the family. guess I'm not doing that again.#(mark on list of disadvantages to being someone who keeps my clothing as long as I can and avoids collecting a bunch:#if I do not have much of a particular color range it is hard to make a practically sized load of said color range)#aaaanyway #synapse talks #laundry #fleece

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