How to take care of your dress shirts ?

2006-10-13
Here is some tips to extand the life of your dress shirts:
- machine wash your dress shirts using a gentle cycle with luke-warm water in order to preserve the fabric.
- Never dry-clean your shirts because the chemicals can distroy the fabric.
- To avoid antiperspirant stains, spray your deodorant on your body and wait for it to dry before wearing the dress shirt.
- To avoid lifting the color of your shirts, separate them before laundering into three categories: whites, colors and darks. You can use an appropriate bleach to fix colors.
- Check if there is any stain before pressing because the heat from an iron can fix permanently the stain into the fabric.
- It's easier and better for the fabric, to iron a dress shirt when it is damp. It will also make it easier to get out all the wrinckles.
- Hang your shirt after you iron it on hangers with firm shoulders (avoid wire hangers which can distroy the shape of your dress shirt).