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Roger Fan
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Shirt of Crap

I have a rather limited wardrobe.  So when one article of clothing goes down for the count, the loss represents a rather significant portion of my closet.  2 days ago I decided to wash two of my finer, more delicate, casual dress shirts:  a yellow, long sleeve shirt and a cool white and blue one.  Both shirts are of the bad ass variety and both are Hugo Boss (don't know if they're real, though).  So if there were a lesson to be learned the hard way, I was definitely schooled.  Due to a rather busy schedule, I did not take the shirts immediately out of the wash. Instead, I just let the two shirts sit there, damp, for about 36 hours.  When I finally got around to taking the shirts out to dry, guess what I found?  Big old rusty red blotches all over my cool white and blue shirt (the yellow one, for some reason, was unscathed).  At first I thought it was just pomegranate juice that found it's way into the wash and onto my shirt.  But no, this stuff wasn't coming off.  No amount of Woolite or Dryel could relieve this shirt of Boss of these disgusting stains.  Totally sucks.  Sucky!  The stains are somewhat fleshy in color.  So if I did wear this shirt, from afar I would like like I was wearing a shirt with a bunch of big old holes.  After a few hours of stain management and cursing with the Wrath of Khan, I finally calmed down to rationalize WTF just happened.  Turns out that my fine old Boss shirt had a small percentage of silk blended into the cotton.  And guess what?  The combination of being damp for 36 hours coupled with the warmer climate of the summer months caused my shirt to rot.  How that is possible is beyond me...especially in this day and age.  You'd figure Hugo Boss would have "anti moist rot retardant" automatically put into the fibers of all their clothes.  But alas, I assumed too much.  Consider it an expensive lesson learned (if those shirts are indeed real Boss).  For those of you living in the more humid climates, consider yourself warned.  Dry them finer shirts asap after washing.  Or take them to the roof of your building and line dry without hesitation.  Cause a designer dress shirt with crap rot is basically just crap rot.  Below is a photo of this rather unwelcome crap rot.  I hope you will never encounter such fashion disgust.

over 16 years ago 0 likes  12 comments  0 shares
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golden boy is slowly dying!
over 16 years ago
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I should've have known... you are the Tide and Woolite guy! Sorry 'bout the shirt.
over 16 years ago
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Absofreakinlutely, Roger! I have learned this lesson more than once. As the mother of 2 kids, laundry is a big part of my life, and I too have to remind myself to avoid the mildew thing. Another helpful hint--if you have a high-efficiency washer (read: front loader), leave the door open! That tight seal can mean mildew. Washing a load of whites with chlorine bleach every so often will help get rid of the smell. If you ever get the stain out and retain the smell, dissolve a cup of baking soda in a half bucket of warm water, soak, then wash. The poo smell is gone. More laundry knowledge than you asked for, courtesy of the Hapa's Mama.
over 16 years ago

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