Tell me you wash or dry clean your winter coats… I didn’t realize some people do not wash coats from year to year

[Anonymous]

My coats don't smell weird nor get visibly dirty...

But I'm paranoid about moth/carpet beetle damage so I send wool ones for dry cleaning.

Seriously though, sweaty coats? Who sweats that much in the winter? Who wears coats with nothing underneath?

[Anonymous]

An easy trick to remove odors from garments, like wool coats, is to pour cheap vodka into a spray bottle and drench the item. You may need to repeat this process for stubborn odors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why? Coats don’t get dirty and I’m always cold so no sweat and if I washed mine it would get ruined

Coats get dirty. They rub against cars, they absorb the odor of sweat, dirt accumulates in the collar and cuffs areas, etc.

[Anonymous]

People who smoke cigarettes, or even worse, weed, always have stinky coats. Those odors are absolutely awful.

[Anonymous]

All these hoity toity rich mamas here and they refuse to wash their coats? I don't understand. You can send things out for washing, ladies, you don't have to do it yourself.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am horrified by the number of people who are horrified that people wash their winter coats. It has nothing to do with sweat! Do you ever eat at a restaurant? All those odors are now in your coat.

We ate out a few times this week, and I can smell the “restaurant smell” (as I call it) on my coat. It’s getting washed this weekend. I didn’t have time to do it during the week and I’ve been so self conscious when I’ve gone into stores, because I know it smells.

There is no “restaurant smell.” You are just a crazy person. Feel shame if you want but the rest of us normal people are not going to let you shift it onto us.

Of course there is restaurant smell. You’re entering into an environment where food is cooked for hours and hours, and you don’t think that permeates the air and gets on your clothes, including your jacket in the winter time?

You stink, please wash your jacket.

The solution to the that is to aerate your coat by wearing it or hanging it up outside, not necessarily soap and water.

Hanging coats outside does wonders to freshen them. In college, I used to always hang my dry clean only coats outside at night to get the smoke smell out from parties. It actually worked.

[Anonymous]

For me it’s the kids’ coats. Filthy fronts and sleeves.
If I see your kids looking like that in November, yes I am judging. We wash about once a month or as needed all winter long.
Someone pointed this out before I ever had kids and now I can’t unsee it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I literally didn't know you could/should wash winter coats. Like people wash their canada goose jacket? I must have been living under a rock!

Take it to the dry cleaner’s.

[Anonymous]

I have never washed a coat. Never dry cleaned one either.

[Anonymous]

I wash our winter coats multiple times per season, and then also wash them both before putting them away for the season and after pulling them out of storage.

There are some years where my one wool dress coat doesn't go to the dry cleaners because it barely gets worn (it's the kind of thing I might wear to a single event, if that). But even that, I will spray with a wool/cashmere spray and air it out after wearing it and before putting it back in the closet.

But our everyday coats, which are all machine washable, I wash probably once a month throughout the season. Why wouldn't you? They get very dirty just from regular wear.

[Anonymous]

Does anyone have a good solution for re-waterproofing kid coats? I’ve tried nikwax and it is very meh.

I wish the kid coat industry would just get over the breathable waterproof coatings altogether and give me something very tough and like, mechanically waterproof. With vents. Every coat I put on my kid is going to end up rubbing in sand, basically. I need waxed canvas, or something.

[Anonymous]

I wash kid coats like 10x as often as adult coats. They just get dirtier. Dirt, snot, everything. Plus most of our adult coats are black.

[Anonymous]

You all are so gross. Wash the damn coat. It touches doors cars drinks food kids things in coats counters. It is filthy: wash it

[Anonymous]

PSA wash your coats and definitely your kids coats

[Anonymous]

I try not to wash my winter jacket unless it gets very dirty bc it diminishes the waterproofing.