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Posted by Roberta on October 15, 2009, 12:43 pm
I'm thinking Legolas ought to start doing your laundry ;-)
Roberta in D
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:12:06 GMT, nightmiste@gmail.com (NightMist)
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>On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:10:59 -0700 (PDT), "Dr. Zachary Smith"
>>> Musicmaker wrote:
>>> > don't know if 3" is the norm for quilting cotton - but it is for denim
>>> > jeans!
>>> > Musicmaker who only has 2 pair of jeans that fit!
>>> =A0 =A0 I don't have any 100% cotton denim jeans anymore but DH does. =A0=
>>Even
>>> when I did wear them, I never had them shrink that much. =A0I wonder what
>>> we are doing differently when we wash them??? =A0
>*pats Doc on the head* There there...just think of the mass confusion
>and hair pulling lip biting frustration as a part of better living
>through textiles. (G)
>Puh-leez ladies!
>Surely you know by now that how you wash them after you get them home
>is only a small part of how jeans fit!
>I would lay money that if you go to a shop, and buy 5 different brands
>of jeans that fit you, they will be in at least two different sizes
>(maybe all five will be different sizes), and not one of them will act
>like another so far as how they react to laundering.
>One of the reasons I still half dry new jeans and put up with the
>discomfort of wearing them dry. These days you never know what
>commercial clothes are going to do when you wash them.
>NightMist
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Posted by Dr. Zachary Smith on October 15, 2009, 2:36 pm
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> I'm thinking Legolas ought to start doing your laundry ;-)
> Roberta in D
Not touching that with a ten-foot laundry pole, I'll interject that
one of DW's favorite coffee mugs that I gave her *eons* ago is *still*
a Barbara Dale: "Behind every working woman is an enormous pile of
unwashed laundry."
Doc
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Posted by Julia in MN on October 14, 2009, 2:25 pm
Tia Mary wrote:
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> Musicmaker wrote:
>> don't know if 3" is the norm for quilting cotton - but it is for denim
>> jeans!
>> Musicmaker who only has 2 pair of jeans that fit!
>
> I don't have any 100% cotton denim jeans anymore but DH does. Even
> when I did wear them, I never had them shrink that much. I wonder what
> we are doing differently when we wash them??? I've always used warm
> water to wash and "normal" heat & drying time for DH's jeans.
> Regardless, on the first wash/dry, they do shrink but not as much as you
> have experienced and it's never a problem for DH's jeans because he has
> no legs - 20" inseam -- and it's virtually impossible to jeans that
> length so I end up getting a 32" length. I wash his new jeans in the
> hottest water possible but they never shrink enough and he has to turn
> up the cuffs.
> I'm not saying your wrong -- far from it -- just that I have never
> experienced what you have. I wonder what we do differently?? I will
> say that I have experienced near that much shrinkage when I have
> pre-washed denim yardage. That stuff shrinks like flannel does!
> CiaoMeow >^;;^<
I suspect that the pre-washed/stone-washed jeans will not shrink as much
simply because they have already been washed after they were sewn.
Julia in MN
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Posted by Tia Mary on October 15, 2009, 8:28 am
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>...<snip>.... he has no legs - 20" inseam ...<snip>....
LOLOL -- He does have legs, they're just short -- honest!! He's
about 5'8" with a 30" inseam! Poor DH -- if his legs matched the rest
of his body (35" long sleeve shirts and stuff like polos need to be
about 3" longer to fit properly) he'd be at least 6'0".
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PAX, Tia Mary >^;;^< (RCTQ Queen of Kitties)
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their whiskers!
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Posted by Alice in PA on October 14, 2009, 10:10 am
Yesterday I saw a young girl get jeans measured for hemming at a dry
cleaners. The tag was still hanging on them. No mention was made of
allowing for shrinkage! I wanted to jump in and say, please wash them
first. But, I really felt that the seamstress at the dry cleaners should
have done that! I just hope they added a little for shrinkage, and that
she'll be happy with the results.
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Alice in PA
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> don't know if 3" is the norm for quilting cotton - but it is for denim
> jeans!
> Musicmaker who only has 2 pair of jeans that fit!
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>>> Musicmaker wrote:
>>> > don't know if 3" is the norm for quilting cotton - but it is for denim
>>> > jeans!
>>> > Musicmaker who only has 2 pair of jeans that fit!
>>> =A0 =A0 I don't have any 100% cotton denim jeans anymore but DH does. =A0=
>>Even
>>> when I did wear them, I never had them shrink that much. =A0I wonder what
>>> we are doing differently when we wash them??? =A0
>*pats Doc on the head* There there...just think of the mass confusion
>and hair pulling lip biting frustration as a part of better living
>through textiles. (G)
>Puh-leez ladies!
>Surely you know by now that how you wash them after you get them home
>is only a small part of how jeans fit!
>I would lay money that if you go to a shop, and buy 5 different brands
>of jeans that fit you, they will be in at least two different sizes
>(maybe all five will be different sizes), and not one of them will act
>like another so far as how they react to laundering.
>One of the reasons I still half dry new jeans and put up with the
>discomfort of wearing them dry. These days you never know what
>commercial clothes are going to do when you wash them.
>NightMist