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Smash that mf reblog button if you stoically ignore all labelled washing instructions and everything your mama ever told you about laundry and just send those bastards hurgling around in an overfilled tub to meet either death or glory

Something I learned from a costume designer: if an item can be washed multiple ways the designer is only legally obligated to put one of the ways on the tag, but if there’s only one way to wash that item they have to put Only on the instructions

If the tag says “Dry Clean” it’s safe to machine wash but the designer thinks it looks better if you get it dry cleaned 

But if it says “Dry Clean Only” you will destroy it if you wash it any other way

Reblogging for that last bit which this 37 yr old adult did not lnowy

This is also a lie, though. 

You can wash SOME dry-clean only items in cold water on the lowest setting. Put them in a tied-shut pillowcase. Lay flat to dry. 

You can hand-wash other, more delicate items. I wash very delicate silks and wool items with soapwort, which is so gentle on delicate items that it is used by textile restoration people in museums to clean things like the Shroud of Turin and delicate textiles from archaeological sites. 

(It’s also called Fullier’s herb and was used to clean raw fleeces in the wool industry before modern synthetic detergents but that’s a different story)

You can buy soapwort root online, but it’s also very easy to grow. I grow it in the garden.