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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.

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.

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.

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

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 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 wrote:

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.

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 . . .

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 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.

I don’t.

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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.

Anonymous wrote:I have never washed my winter jacket?

You reek

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.

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.

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.

Once a year I get it dry cleaned.