Need Some Greatcoat Rehab Advice

[auld argonian]

There is that Eucalan stuff that's sold as a wool wash.

http://www.eucalan.com/

I think that I remember Turpin having suggested it a while ago...I could be wrong on this...but it purports to be "lanolin enriched"...perhaps that might revitalize the coats. It's also scented so it might help destroy the "musties".

I know that you might not want to mess with this one but I read in the local paper that the costume department at the opera shpritz musty outfits with vodka to freshen them up.

Best

AA

[Riverkilt]

Thanks AA,

Had never heard of that stuff...the ingredients list includes some chemical names that I have no clue over....but lanolin...

Have heard of the vodka substitute for Febreze...bunch of alcohol in Febreze too.

In the depths of my worst alcoholism I never drank vodka (yucko!)...there were so many alternatives as a carrier vehicle for booze that tasted a LOt better. Still, not sure I want a couple of booze coats....might be dangerous around open flames.

Its taking all my skills to hold back from immersing these coats in my own little version of a peat bog....

Ron
and really...I wasn't "that" bad....really....I mean I never shot booze I.V....never snorted booze....never smoked it....

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I know that you might not want to mess with this one but I read in the local paper that the costume department at the opera shpritz musty outfits with vodka to freshen them up.

They used to use gin to dry clean silk, that's why it was so cheap and drank my alcoholic housewives. Oh, and I'm jealous of pleater's knitting room, I need a room for my fiber related hobbies, poor Yeti, he just got a good look at how much yarn I really own. well... most of what I own.