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]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Same. So much fresher and softer, too.

[Anonymous]

I wash mine and my kids all the time.
People are so gross.

[Anonymous]

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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.

NP. I would contact the company if you followed directions from the label. Some are shockingly helpful! And others -- e.g., Arc'teryx -- will do repair checks or have a service where they'll wash your coat for you.

Fwiw, I thought I had trouble w/my Patagonia losing its waterproofing. I wash machine-washing on cold and hanging to dry. A Patagonia rep let me know that putting it in the dryer would restore the DWR. And it did!

[Anonymous]

I wash my winter coats at the end of the season and during the season when I spill coffee on myself. I don’t wash my raincoat.

[Anonymous]

I wash all my coats at least once a year. The ones that can go in the washing machine, I do myself. The others get dry cleaned at end of the season.

Riding the subway in the winter in NYC, there is so much odor coming from people's disgustingly dirty coats....

[Anonymous]

I wash my kids' coats/hoodies weekly, but my own only get washed at the end of the season. My nice wool coat gets drycleaned once every few years, but I only wear it about 3 times a year.

If you wash those puffy coats too often they lose all warmth! They aren't coming in direct contact with skin, so I don't see why an adult needs to wash them more than 1-2 times a season.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

You hand wash an ankle length wool coat? I cannot even imagine how heavy and awkward that is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I do, but by the smell of some people’s coats they don’t. I wash mine if I go into a deli or other Sri my restaurant.

Isn't it crazy? There are a few bagel places with terrible ventilation and even my hair smells afterwards. I vote with my wallet and don't go to those places.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wash all my coats at least once a year. The ones that can go in the washing machine, I do myself. The others get dry cleaned at end of the season.

Riding the subway in the winter in NYC, there is so much odor coming from people's disgustingly dirty coats....

That smell is not the coats…

[Anonymous]

You only have 1 winter jacket?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: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.

You hand wash an ankle length wool coat? I cannot even imagine how heavy and awkward that is.

Yes, I am super curious how this is done. I hate the smell of stinky coats but also hate the cost of dry cleaning.

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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.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wash my kids' coats/hoodies weekly, but my own only get washed at the end of the season. My nice wool coat gets drycleaned once every few years, but I only wear it about 3 times a year.

If you wash those puffy coats too often they lose all warmth! They aren't coming in direct contact with skin, so I don't see why an adult needs to wash them more than 1-2 times a season.

Thosd puffers hold smells. Sweaty smells, Old perfume odor, food odors, it all can be smelled by other people. Ever been behind someone in line or on the train? Bleh. It’s like that hair odor people have when you can tell they haven’t washed their hair in a while. It wafts.

[Anonymous]

Some of ya'll coats STINK.

[Anonymous]

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