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Laundering Dress Shirts
We’re pretty particular about our shirts so it’s not surprising that we wanted to develop the best wash around. The Laundress New York for J.Crew Shirt Wash is an exclusive formula that cleans and guards the color of your shirts-without toxic or harsh chemicals.
The best way to care for any shirt is to machine wash using a mesh bag or hand wash as much as possible. This will help decrease the natural wear on the fabric as well as prevent broken or missing buttons. Industrial pressing at the cleaners will loosen, break and lose buttons. Dry Cleaners can also scorch and weaken the fabric and will inevitably lead to fraying and tearing (especially at the seams). Dry cleaning is really tough on fabric, if you take your shirts to the cleaners be sure to request laundering. When using starch shirts should be washed in-between pressing to remove the starch build-up, especially from the dry cleaners.
PRE-TREAT:
-Pre-treat underarms and collar and cuffs each time you wash even if you don’t see a stain.
-Use The Laundress for J.Crew Collar & Cuff Bar to remove ring around the collar, stubborn stains, grime and grease commonly found on cuff & shirts. Lather bar with water and work soap into stained areas and soak. When stains are removed, launder with The Laundress for J.Crew Shirt Wash as normal.
-Stains can build up and appear over time from food, body products (deodorant), perspiration & body oils, etc. To treat underarm stains use The Laundress Stain Solution.
-Run hot water (we pour boiling water from the kettle) onto the area and soak. Repeat until satisfied (we recommend this also for coffee and wine stains). Safe for cotton and linen fabrics only.
WASHING:
-Remove and store collar stays to put back in after pressing.
-Use The Laundress for J.Crew Shirt Wash with delicate or normal cycle and cold water. Again, we recommend using mesh bags in the machine to protect fabric and buttons. For best results use hot water on cotton and linen fabric.
-1/16 cup Hand washing , 1/8 cup Front- loading and HE washing machines, 1/4 cup Top- Loading washing machines
DRY/FINISH:
-Do not put in the dryer. We recommend hang drying.
-Iron and steam shirts while damp for best results. Always press from the tip (points) of the collar or cuff inwards, not the reverse which will cause wrinkling. For starch we recommend a natural corn starch such as The Laundress Stiffen-Up.
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