Ungar
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Post by Ungar on Jul 17, 2006 21:28:07 GMT -5
Hi All!
I didnt want to make a new thread for this so I just modified one of my old ones.
My M40 Field Grey tunic is too big for me.
It is wool, and I know that wool can shrink.
What is the method to make a wool uniform shrink.
Thank you very Much!
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Post by Gordak on Jul 19, 2006 9:00:42 GMT -5
be very careful! easy to get the wrong color!
-Gordak
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Ungar
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Post by Ungar on Aug 9, 2006 18:46:15 GMT -5
*bump
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Nimlas
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Post by Nimlas on Aug 9, 2006 19:00:42 GMT -5
Well, it usually shrinks when you macine wash it, but that's not recomended.
I'd just sell it and buy the proper size, if you really phuck it up you'll be out a heft chunck of change.
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2nd Bat
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Post by 2nd Bat on Aug 11, 2006 16:28:39 GMT -5
Small is generally easier to find then big so agree with the notion of leaving well enough alone. trying to shrink to size is a very non scientific and unpredictable art form. Usually producing disasterous results.
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Post by maverick4440 on Aug 12, 2006 3:51:32 GMT -5
If it's new wool I'd be careful.
Back in the days before cheap german uniforms I used to have a converted swede Navy fieldblouse,
They were cut more like the German army uniforms than swede army and I died mine in boiling rit dye washed it and dried it in a dryer and it didn't shrink a bit but that was 50 year old probably preshrunk wool.
IF I wash my new wool at all I use cold water and gentle cycle with hang drying as the new wool can shrink.
I prefer HBT uniforms and those shrink as well but I wear a 40 so buy a 42 and wash and dry it once in hot water and tumble dry and it shrinks the cotton to a perfect size 40 and stays there.
it only shrinks once and then stays there forever no matter how many times I was the HBT.
Dave
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Post by Sascha Gusdorf on Aug 12, 2006 8:34:22 GMT -5
...yeah, I also tried putting a Swedish wool tunic in a Rit Dye Bath; washed it; and hung it out to dry. It was a size 44 before the process; it actually shrunk to a size 42. I couldn't even button the coller button. As stated before, be very careful; not of your shrinking process, but of your temper, when you realize that your tunic may not fit you at all.--Ben
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