IHSH-53 - 12oz Raw Selvedge Indigo Work Shirt

[crisone]

Question about agitation….I'd like to stay away from putting the shirt in a washing machine, so I'd assume the alternative way is to wash in my bathtub constantly moving the shirt for about 15 or so???

Thanks,

Cris.

[jacoavlu]

sounds fine
but effect is gonna be somewhere between plain soak
and machine wash

if you got room, I'd just throw it in machine
cold, gentle, remove before spin
air dry

[crisone]

^ Sounds good…..just gotta throw it in the machine while my wife isn't home......cuz to sum it up, she won't understand, haha.

Thanks Jaco....probably try it out next week Monday.

Cris.

[crisone]

Crossing fingers…........

Taking it out to air dry as we speak.

Cris.

[madmonday]

good luck cris.

[crisone]

Thanks Monday…..it stained the shit out of my Machine, haha, doing a dark load right now to hopefully clean it off.

Cris.

[Finn666]

don't let wifey see this bro :P…

[crisone]

That's why I did it right now, I'm home with the kids, wife is at work, haha…....

Cris.

[Giles]

Did wifey want little blue babies?

[PETEROCK1]

@crisone:

That's why I did it right now, I'm home with the kids, wife is at work, haha…....

Cris.

Start wearing it right now while it's damp…. and wear a white shirt underneath 

[crisone]

Petee, I plan to, it's still a bit wet, waiting till like 12 to wear…...

And the dark load cleaned up all the Indigo off my Machine, yessss.

Cris.

[arrow]

This is funny… I had a similar experience with my washing machine and dryer yesterday after soaking my 1103ex Strike Gold.
Took a bottle of Simple Green Cleanser to wipe up the excess indigo left over.

Loading up a batch of dark colored clothes to wash after your indigo soak is a great idea... never thought of this!

Looking forward to the IHSH-53 fit pics.

[crisone]

Alrighty, here's a fit pic in the damp stage, the sleeves shrunk perfectly, I just have to "half'cuff" if you can notice, the chest area feels like it shrunk a tad, but still perfect…..gosh I love this shirt!!!!!!  Thanks to all for the help.

Cris.

[hectic]

really boring question for statesiders - do you guys typically have those top loader washing machines?

[Finn666]

looking great chris…another question: what lens?

[crisone]

hectic, people over here have both, but more front loading, energy saver supposably.

Finn, Canon 16-35L, WA Lens (shhh, [whisper voice]it makes me look skinnier[whisper voice]) haha.

Cris.

[Splattered]

Dude! Shirt looks gooooood! Right on congrats

[injunjack]

looks good, but back too washing machines. Whats that white sticking up from the bottom of the machine?

Never seen one of those. (we have had front loader for over a decade, so…)

[crisone]

^ It's the washer blade type thingies to rotate the clothes and where you pour the Fabric Softener in on top and after the rinse cycle, the Softener liquid releases through some spouts.

And thanks to all for the kind words…..

Cris.

[injunjack]

OK, all toploaders I've seen have had a drum like frontloaders do. The drum is just openable.