IHSH-297-IND - Blanket Lined Denim CPO Shirt

[mclaincausey]

I'll be interested to see how something with that many different fabrics and insulation reacts to a hot soak. It seems like you could get some rippling and other effects if the various fabrics shrink at different rates.

[Filthy2123ozjunkie]

Yes that was a consideration. But I am doing this for a dear friend and for science.

[Joberwocky]

"for science" certainly gives it an air of importance. @Filthy has to walk so all of us can run 

[Filthy2123ozjunkie]

[mclaincausey]

@Filthy is always good like that, DIY master who DGAF and helps his friends.

I would have gotten one of these if I didn't have the IHSH-49. I think everyone should have a blanket-lined IH Western. They're rad. And this one looks very similar to the old 49, same denim weight and perhaps a couple shades darker denim.

[Filthy2123ozjunkie]

We briefly discussed the possibilities of a trip through the hotel dryer. But I am afeared of possible potential rouge curly-whirlies. So that will have to wait until I go home. I only use public laundry in an utter emergency.

[Paul9221]

@Filthy It cracks me up how much of your shrinking you do on the road.

"I need a room with a large tub, boiling water out of the tap, and a balcony from which I can air-dry things."

[Filthy2123ozjunkie]

I am a live in the moment kind of dude so you have seize every opportunity.

[Filthy2123ozjunkie]

Okay folks after one hot soak for a couple hours, I got:

Ptp 26 ️ 25.6

Sleeve opening 5.1 ️ 4.8

Sleeve length 28 ️ 27

Body length 32 ️ 31.5

Shirt is still wet, but the shrinkage is evident by the amount of roping I got on the cuffs and hem.

[Filthy2123ozjunkie]

Using a hair dryer in the closet to make a makeshift dryer.

[Brock]

Wait until you see his make shift dryer room!! [emoji23]
Mike is the coolest!

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[Filthy2123ozjunkie]

Hopefully I don't burn the hotel down

[Paul9221]

LOL!  You're a real asset to the club, Mike!

[Filthy2123ozjunkie]

thanks

[Joberwocky]

Mike's making the most of a day off

[Paul9221]

Can't believe how much shrinkage you got on the sleeve, and it's not even done drying yet.

[Filthy2123ozjunkie]

Yeah I was surprised too. But I measured the same sleeve while the shirt was inside out at the same point on the seam.

[Filthy2123ozjunkie]

One final update for now. So as not to turn this thread into the neurotic filthy shrinkage thread…

Hair dryer shut itself off. So I just put the shirt on the back of a chair right side out in front of the A/C. I don't notice any of the adverse effects McClain had mentioned previously. I would like to get a little more shrinkage so I might hot wash it and run it through the dryer eventually. But I will be in West Virginia as least 18 more days.

Thanks everyone, it was fun.

[Matt]

I’ve used countless laundromats between Baltimore and Albuquerque.  There was one in TX where the woman who ran the place tried to get me to eat cabbage and onions with her.  The lint catchers will grab all the unwanted DNA.  I say go for it.

[Filthy2123ozjunkie]

Thanks, but no thanks.