Shirt.Woot

Hi all - I've been purchasing a lot of Woot shirts lately, and I'm just wondering: how does everyone keep their shirts in good condition? Especially in the washing machine/dryer?

I wore Acquired Taste one time and after it came through the laundry, it had a hole in the armpit, the threading on the bottom of the shirt had come loose, and one of the sleeves had a tear in it.

And now I'm having the same issue with Slow Death - I wore it once, washed & dried it, and now all of the threading in the bottom of the shirt is coming completely unravelled. It makes me sad

So, just wondering how everyone keeps their shirts in pristine condition. Or do you? Is this a common problem or is it just me?

I generally always wash on cold... hang on a drying rack to dry.

(Much to my wife's constant irritation)

No issues here - not with the sewing, at least - and I have over 190 woot shirts.

It almost sounds like it's getting seriously pulled and stretched in the wash. Once a thread snaps on the hems, pulling on it unravels the rest. And it sounds like it's the machine doing all that.

What cycle, what kind of machine, and do you wash your shirts in mix with heavier items like jeans and sweatshirts too? That's all I can really think of.

Me ... Bosch front loader, homemade detergent (borax/washing soda/fels naptha soap), cold wash, line dry. Shirts (and not just woot ones) in separate loads, usually every few weeks.

I'm not exactly sure what kind of washing machine/dryer they are (I live in a college dorm), but the washing machine is just a basic top-load washer and the dryer is just a basic front-load. I wash on normal, with cold water & Purex liquid detergent, with other t-shirts and like-colored clothes, and put them in the dryer on low heat.

Same thing I do with all my other clothes, including tees. And like I said, the majority of my Woot shirt's I've only worn once or twice, since I have so many of them and I don't usually do laundry until I've run out of clothes haha. I don't know what the deal is.

Ok, so it's not the cycle. My only other theory is that the machine is overloaded. If they're like really tangled when pulling out, then that's a clue.

Do as GoldenThorn says, and see if service has any thoughts to it too.

Cold wash at delicate setting, if you wear it just once and line dry. That's what i do. Dryer heat shrinks T-Shirts

My woot shirts have gone through many washings with no wear and tear on the shirts themselves (the designs can be a different matter), but then I have my own front loader.

College dorm washers can be murder on clothes. I'll second the suggestions to not overload the washer, and only wash your shirts with other shirts or lightweight clothes (no jeans, for example).

I use cold water for everything, shirts included, but I also use the dryer most of the time on low or medium heat currently because I don't have a clothes line or drying rack since we moved, otherwise I'd air dry a lot more. I haven't had a problem with shirts shrinking or unraveling or anything. I will say that having had to go from our own front-loader to the top-loader in the house we're renting now, the top-loader is much harsher on clothes, my husband's had several items come out with holes (though not any of his shirts).

I have to be honest--my boyfriend and I overload our laundry machine with woot shirts mixed in with pants and jackets, and we have never had a problem with the shirts ripping/tearing/unraveling before. We aren't exactly as careful with the shirts as we should be, but (knock on wood), neither of us have ever had a shirt get damaged, even though we probably own about 60-70 shirts between the two of us. The only problem I've ever had was my shirts shrinking, and that's because we typically dry our clothes too long.

I have a feeling it might just be because you are living in a dorm and the washers there may be bad...

I have had, on occasion, issues with Woot shirts "unraveling" around the hem or sleeves after just one wear/wash. In about 4 years of Wooting, it's happened maybe 2-3 times? Occasionally it is just a manufacturing defect with the AA blank.

Perhaps it's a problem with the way you're washing, or sadly, you might just be really unlucky.

I keep mine in a hypobaric temperature and humidity controlled chamber shielded from UV or other radiation.

Keeps them crisp, it does.

Well, thanks for all the suggestions. I'm not really sure what I'm doing either, but I guess I'm going to go on and contact customer service. I noticed today that my Acquired Taste shirt, besides having a slight rip in the sleeve, also has a hole in each armpit - and again, I wore this shirt once. And (I just can't get a break!), I just got patrickspens new shirt, Escape, in the mail, and it had a rip in the sleeve! It's just like the one in AT too, it's not exactly a rip, it's just like the threads connecting each end of the sleeve together have become unravelled and it falls apart.

Hopefully service can help me out, because I really love Woot's shirts, but I just don't think I'm going to be able to continue purchasing them if they keep falling apart after one wear...or just coming in the mail...

Wash in an over packed toploader on warm and dry at high heat. Never had a problem with a single shirt, woot or otherwise. I have kind of started turning them inside out but that really only matters for some of the really thick plastisol(?) inks from dbh. Shrinkage is much much less than people make it out to be. The shirts are also far less delicate. Woot has always struck me as full of the hypochondriacs of the shirt world. If your shirts are unravelling it's a defect so contact woot.

I'm with Mr.Wednesday. I try and turn them inside out, (but only manage to sometimes), they always go into the dryer, and have had no problem with any shirts. (and I am only 2 shirts away from being better than everyone else!)