How do you wash your kilt hose?

[deadelvis]

Quick question here. I've got some kilt hose from SWK and they didn't come with laundry instructions. I'm not sure what they're made from so I didn't want to just chunk them in the washer.

I know some of you must have a few pairs of these from SWK as well. So how do you go about washing yours?

[Valencian Kilted]

I just can imagine as they're wool hose, to wash by hand wash in cold water with a delicate clothes detergent, such as "Woolite" or "Norit" in Spain, at least that's what my mummy does!!! :mrgreen:

Well, just finishing my journey here for xmas weekend and champagne sparkles between my ears, so, from the Avantec Spanish Delegation headquarters in Valencia,....


MERRY XMAS. TO AAAAAAAAALL!!!!!!

¡SALUD!

T O N O

[Robin]

Merry Christmas Tono!



Oh...and about socks/hoses...I don't have a clue, my wife is "chief laundry" :mrgreen:

[M. A. C. Newsome]

For those with only one or two pairs of kilt hose, I would say just hand wash them.

But I have a variety of kilt hose in various colors from several different manufacturers. The wool content varies from around 18% to 80%. I just toss them all in a basket after I wear them. When I'm about to run out of clean pairs, my wife washes them all in the machine in cool water on the gentle cycle. (Any other woolen or delicate clothes that need washing usually go in at the same time).

When done, sometimes she will run them through the spin cycle one more time to get most of the excess water out. Then they all get hung up to air dry.

I've had one or two pairs shrink using this method, but overall I have never had a problem.

[Gary]

I always use a mild shampoo when I hand wash wool. Works well.

[arrogcow]

I honestly just throw them in the wash with my regular laundry.

Adam

[Southern Breeze]

I've always tossed them in with everything else. Afterwards I let them air-dry.
BTW, it's the SWs I do this to. The ones that I know are pure wool I wash by hand and air dry.

[GlassMan]

Without thinking I sent my first pair of 80% wool kilt hose through the wash with the rest of the WHITE clothes! Now those socks are the perfect size for my nephews.

I now either wash the wool ones by hand, or toss them in the dryel bag with my kilts for a little home dry cleaning.

[mbhandy]

I've always tossed them in with everything else. Afterwards I let them air-dry.
BTW, it's the SWs I do this to. The ones that I know are pure wool I wash by hand and air dry.

Same here but I even machine wash my wool gentel cycle, fabric softner, streach back to shape then dry on rack.

You might try to soak the shrunk ones in a sink of water and hair conditioner
then try to streach them back out,wring out by hand, let air dry. It has worked for me in the past. :-?

MrBill

[Colin]

I used to just throw them in the washer, but after one pair shrunk, I started hand washing them. It only takes a minute or two, and once dry they are perfect.