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Buddy...
I have shirts that still look practically new after dozens and dozens of washes.
How do you insert an image like this in comments? I can only get the link to the image to show up. Thanks.
Do you really think his mom is going to go through all that?
What’s “folding”?
Yeah, aren't you supposed to just dump your clothes into the clean hamper?
I wash all my band shirts in a washing machine at 40C with only color detergent and no fabric softener. I hang dry the tshirts on hangers instead of folding them over the clothes line or using clothes pins. Absolutely no dryer outside of whatever the washing machine does.
It works pretty well. The real secret is to have about 30 of them so you don't wash them every week.
Edit: like another commenter said, wash your clothes inside out.
If you didn't sweat much in them/ they aren't that dirty then 30° also does the job.
Honestly, even I was even my gym clothes on cold, and it works just fine. The hotter settings are more for stain removal.
IIRC: To prevent this from happening or slowing down the occurrence, turn your shirt inside out before you put it in the washing machine and dryer. Set both to the lowest or second lowest temperature for both machines. Works well for me. But as others have said, air drying is the best way to treat them. Me on the other hand...
For clothes I have 2 rules: 1) If the zipper is not made by YKK, fuck it I don't need that article 2) I never buy cheap screen printed fabric t shirts. DTG on cotton all the way.
dtg?
Apparently, "Direct-to-Garment". It seems to bond better with the cloth fibers.
I've had a couple of t shirts through the years where the fabric itself seems to have been dyed into an image instead of just being screen printed on. I get it obviously must be more expensive, but it holds up amazingly and I wish more places out there did this.
I once bought some cheap-ass knockoff merch shirt that was printed like that. And shit cost, like, five bucks.
(In retrospect, I'm not proud of buying products of likely slave labor, but what's done is done.)
There is slave labor at aome point in pretty much every product you use. The cotton used for your shirt, the cocoa in your chocolate bar, the strawberry you had in your salad today, all likely had forced labor to some degree. Even the cartoon you watched last night might have been animated bu some korean child.
Air dry your graphic tees people!
No cracks, no fading. You're welcome
Or use the dryer on low.
The fact that anyone is using anything higher than low for their clothes is shocking. If your clothes aren’t drying, it means you need to split the load into 2 separate ones, people!
People are wildly impatient about the dumbest things. I've been trying to push heat pump dryers because they use like a fourth of the electricity of a standard electric dryer but people don't want to because it takes slightly longer to dry heavy things like towels. But they have the added benefit of using very little heat because they're abusing the fact that they are condensers and are making the air very very dry so they don't need as much heat so they are far gentler on clothing
But they just hard refuse Despite the fact i know for an absolute fact all these people wait fucking hours after dryer is done to collect it or move it around. So it's a worthless argument
This happened to me with a shirt I got for pride almost a year in advance that said "GAY TRASH" and when I went to wear it all it said was "G AS"
I still think about that to this day
Washing it wrong, check the label, some clothes require specific settings, or need to be inside out
Survival of the fittest
I don't want weak clothes
Shirt: "warm hand wash please!"
Me, yeeting it into the spin cycle at 60 degrees:
My jeans must have good genes.
almost all of those cheap iron on thick ass layered prints do this. they grate your skin then dissolve off the shirt. I've taught my 9 year old how to pick out good graphic tees, no shitty iron on mass produced trash.
And that "tagless label" is gone after the first wash too.
Doing their best to kill the used clothing market.
The used clothing market hinges on an annoying piece of extra fabric that stabs me in the back of the neck?
Oh yeah, good shirts are practically the same as vampires or weird rich people.
They need a constant supply of blood to keep up it's appearance.
If they look like this after a week, they are not your best t-shirts.
Also: you can actually feel, if the paint is going to look like this after some time.
Me, who always buys plain shirts...
You should check out Dan Flashes if you want some really amazing and complicated patterns.
Don't put them in the dryer and they last longer. Air dry is the best way to preserve these kind of designs.
Low dryer heat solves this
Honestly just wear it wet
No but seriously hang drying will help. Also not buying screen printed tees
