taking my first alan made kilt to the cleaners

[O'Neille]

Wash something in woolite sometime after you get it back from the dry cleaners. You'll be amazed at how much filth you get out of it. Personally, I like to know that the gunk on my kilts is my gunk and not from the last hundred items that were "cleaned" in the same fluid.

To each his own, but I swear by the Kathy Lare method of hand washing in woolite and laying flat to dry. I use an old patio screen door w/ fiberglass screen. This preserves the lanolin and other oils in the wool, prevents excessive felting and is quite easy.

[Bugbear]

Hand washing works great, but I bought a fold out clothes drying rack to dry my kilts I've found that the kilts are difficult to lay flat because of the tapering at the hips, so I hang the tapered part over the edge of the rack and the pleats are very easy to flatten out and don't require much pressing when it dries.

Wash something in woolite sometime after you get it back from the dry cleaners. You'll be amazed at how much filth you get out of it. Personally, I like to know that the gunk on my kilts is my gunk and not from the last hundred items that were "cleaned" in the same fluid.

To each his own, but I swear by the Kathy Lare method of hand washing in woolite and laying flat to dry. I use an old patio screen door w/ fiberglass screen. This preserves the lanolin and other oils in the wool, prevents excessive felting and is quite easy.

[James MacMillan]

Hand washing works great, but I bought a fold out clothes drying rack to dry my kilts I've found that the kilts are difficult to lay flat because of the tapering at the hips, so I hang the tapered part over the edge of the rack and the pleats are very easy to flatten out and don't require much pressing when it dries.

Where did you find a fold-out drying rack? I've done some searches, but no luck yet.

[Bugbear]

I found mine at a yard sale, but I think that Walmart has racks that set in a tub for drying wool sweaters. You might try those type of stores in the travel departments.

[James MacMillan]

I found mine at a yard sale, but I think that Walmart has racks that set in a tub for drying wool sweaters. You might try those type of stores in the travel departments.

You might be talking about something like these.

But I am looking for a flat one.

[Bugbear]

The one I have is made of plastic coated metal bars and has legs and fold out wings, so it's like a table almost. I've been looking for one like it on the web, but haven't found anything yet. It looks like there are sweater drying racks on the web that could be put side by side to make enough space to spread out a kilt though. If I see anything like what I have, I will post it.

[auld argonian]

These extravagant drying racks sound like a Lillian Vernon catalog item...

http://www.lillianvernon.com/catalog...Id=4&catId=157


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