Ship John

[Chibs]

Thank you guys!! Your help is almost as as supportive as your enabling! Washing and drying tonight!

[roydub87]

@Chibs i got mine from the new batch and did a room temp soak with a delicate spin dry and it came up about 2 inches in length on the bottom hem and the sleeves and about a half inch in the chest. From there I hung it to fully dry out and it’s perfect in all measurements now.

From what I understand this garment can and should be treated like unsanfordized denim and is really therefore, shrink to fit. Whatever warmth is added to either the soak or the dry will determine your shrinkage. Hopefully that makes sense and isn’t confusing or redundant to the above info

[sabergirl]

Seems like everyone’s experience is it shrinks way more than the 2.5% in length on the new instruction @Chibs posted. Let us know your results!

[Chibs]

As discussed, I washed and dried the Towns last night along with my 21oz modified type 3. Really wanted those sleeves to shrink but I’ll save that for an other thread.

Started by turning the Towns inside out and soaking it in hot water for 2-3 minutes. The water turned yellow. Then transferred it to the washing machine where I ran it for for 38 minutes no spin and second down from the absolute hottest setting.
Once that finished I transferred to the dryer and put it on high (one down from the hottest “sanitize” setting for 20 minutes.

Then took it out and measured. It was still wet so I hung it up.
Fast forward to now, it’s still a bit damp so I moved it outside and hung it on my birch. Not sure if the measurements will get much different once it’s completely dry? But noticed quite a bit of shrinkage where I wanted it the most.

I’ll update you guys with numbers once it’s totally dry. All in all, happy I did this so far. I should have done this long ago with my type 3 too!

[Chibs]

Wearing a very dry Towns today.
Here are the measurements before wash:
Chest - 21.7
Shoulders -18
Length 31.3
Arms 26.4

After wash n dry:
Chest - 21.4
Shoulders - 17.8
Length 30
Arms - 25

As you can see, length shrunk more than width which was contrary to what SJ projected. I think this worked in my favour. The arm length and overall length was definitely too long for my taste. The Ship John silhouette seems to be longer / skinnier than what I’m used to from Ironheart. I plan on wearing this piece a lot along with all my other shirts . Pretty excited about the prospect of it softening / loosening up as well as Evo.

Edit: here’s a before wash / dry pic:

After wash / dry:

[roydub87]

@Chibs Looks amazing man welcome to the party and let the crocking begin lol

[Chibs]

@roydub87 Thank you! I didn’t consider that today when I put on my white T..

[Gianny Boy]

@Chibs excellent before and after pics, looking good!

[roydub87]

@Chibs you have no more white tees …. They are future light blue tie dye shirts

[Chibs]

@Gianny-Boy thanks! It’s almost like 2 different shirts.