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]

Once a year I get it dry cleaned.

[Anonymous]

Are you really sweating through all the layers of your clothes and into your coat? I do wash my coat occasionally as the sleeves get dirty etc but can not imagine how a coat can smell so badly as people as describing. I mean sure a kid who is playing at recess but I am not running around. In the winter I typically have 2 layers on under my coat.

[Anonymous]

It depends on the coat.

You can’t just wash the waterproof parkas, you have to do the whole waterproofing rigmarole. I do it more often with the kids coats.

I have a puffer I wear all the time that I wash more often and just accept it’s not really waterproof any more. Same with kid coats.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are you really sweating through all the layers of your clothes and into your coat? I do wash my coat occasionally as the sleeves get dirty etc but can not imagine how a coat can smell so badly as people as describing. I mean sure a kid who is playing at recess but I am not running around. In the winter I typically have 2 layers on under my coat.

I think this must be like the people who can smell “outside.” That’s not shade, I believe them, I’m just not one of them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have never washed my winter jacket?

You reek

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are you really sweating through all the layers of your clothes and into your coat? I do wash my coat occasionally as the sleeves get dirty etc but can not imagine how a coat can smell so badly as people as describing. I mean sure a kid who is playing at recess but I am not running around. In the winter I typically have 2 layers on under my coat.

I think this must be like the people who can smell “outside.” That’s not shade, I believe them, I’m just not one of them.

Do you ever walk into a place that is cooking on a flat top grill? Fabric picks up those odors.

[Anonymous]

I don’t.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are you really sweating through all the layers of your clothes and into your coat? I do wash my coat occasionally as the sleeves get dirty etc but can not imagine how a coat can smell so badly as people as describing. I mean sure a kid who is playing at recess but I am not running around. In the winter I typically have 2 layers on under my coat.

I think this must be like the people who can smell “outside.” That’s not shade, I believe them, I’m just not one of them.

Do you ever walk into a place that is cooking on a flat top grill? Fabric picks up those odors.

Okay! Chillax, man. I wash the coats I wear the most more frequently. I’m struggling to think of the last time I had a coat and flat top grill experience but I’ll be on the lookout.

[Anonymous]

My driving coat or other garments that get minimal wear/exposure to outside elements get cleaned at the end of the season and stored. My daily-wear coat(s) get cleaned when they get dirty, and then at the end of the season before being stored.

And I handwash my wool. Dry cleaning is nasty.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Are you really sweating through all the layers of your clothes and into your coat? I do wash my coat occasionally as the sleeves get dirty etc but can not imagine how a coat can smell so badly as people as describing. I mean sure a kid who is playing at recess but I am not running around. In the winter I typically have 2 layers on under my coat.

I think this must be like the people who can smell “outside.” That’s not shade, I believe them, I’m just not one of them.

Do you ever walk into a place that is cooking on a flat top grill? Fabric picks up those odors.

Okay! Chillax, man. I wash the coats I wear the most more frequently. I’m struggling to think of the last time I had a coat and flat top grill experience but I’ll be on the lookout.

lol. 😂

This is so strange, these are clothes worn literally outside - outside of multiple layers and they are in the outdoors where they aired out with every wear.

I can absolutely imagine clothes seeming musty if they came out of winter storage, but a good way to deal with that is to air them out . . .

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It depends on the coat.

You can’t just wash the waterproof parkas, you have to do the whole waterproofing rigmarole. I do it more often with the kids coats.

I have a puffer I wear all the time that I wash more often and just accept it’s not really waterproof any more. Same with kid coats.

Please tell me how to do this! I ruined an expensive, wonderful rain jacket by putting it in the washing machine.

[Anonymous]

I dry clean wool coats at the end of the season, and wash regular jackets as needed, probably two or three times per winter

[Anonymous]

Mine get washed every year. People are gross. **shrugs**

[Anonymous]

Yes, gross not to IMO. But I walk most places and sweat a bit with wool sweaters + coat or jacket. Also take bus/metro, which are not exactly clean environments!

I wash my puffer as needed. I take long, sometimes sweaty dog walks.

I also wear a wool peacoat, which I wash with Eucalan ~2x per season and it gets the stink out of the pits (thanks, menopause!). I also have a Patagonia layered system, which I wash as needed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It depends on the coat.

You can’t just wash the waterproof parkas, you have to do the whole waterproofing rigmarole. I do it more often with the kids coats.

I have a puffer I wear all the time that I wash more often and just accept it’s not really waterproof any more. Same with kid coats.

Please tell me how to do this! I ruined an expensive, wonderful rain jacket by putting it in the washing machine.

You have to read the labels but generally I use nikwax as directed.

Anything waterproof and supposedly breathable is going to be super hard to care for ime in dirt. Any dirt just annihilates the waterproofing if it’s just a coating. I think if you can, save those for snow and have a more every day one for dirt that you don’t need to be as waterproof. This is mainly for kids.