IIRC: To prevent this from happening or slowing down the occurrence, turn your shirt inside out before you put it in the washing machine and dryer. Set both to the lowest or second lowest temperature for both machines. Works well for me. But as others have said, air drying is the best way to treat them. Me on the other hand…
Me, who always buys plain shirts…
Look up which brand were the ones that hold out and look there for cool shirts. Likely not the 5 bucks slave labor ones.
They’re all slave labor
… 🔫 Always has been
You bought a sht product because you just went after the looks but not of what it was made, where it was made and what quality is has.
Essentially, you are part of the problem of why the earth goes down.
Use your brain not your instincts.
Buddy, this is late stage capitalism. Every product you buy is shit.
Why the negative votes?
Personally I have only a hand full of t-shirts, all made of good 100 percent wool. I rotate them in use and I get maybe two weeks of time each before I have to wash them again because wool is not getting stenchy very fast, is anti bacterial and has a good climate while wearing, be it cold or hot weather. They get washed inside out and with pretty cold water, which is good for the fabric, and dry on air, because that’s energy efficient and also good for the fabric. I have them for like two years now and they look brand new, no pilling, no tears, no nothing. The wool flows and gleams like at the first day. Just. Do. Not. Buy. Trash.
A single wool t-shirt costs $50. I am struggling to scrape together food for for the week, and you expect me to pay $400 for enough shirts to get through the week? I really doibt you are actually going 2 weeks between washes on a single shirt, and if you are i feel sorry for anyone who has to interact with you. Some of us have jobs that get sweaty and dirty and cant wear the same getup multiple days in a row.
This happened to me with a shirt I got for pride almost a year in advance that said “GAY TRASH” and when I went to wear it all it said was “G AS”
I still think about that to this day
And that “tagless label” is gone after the first wash too.
Doing their best to kill the used clothing market.
The used clothing market hinges on an annoying piece of extra fabric that stabs me in the back of the neck?
Oh yeah, good shirts are practically the same as vampires or weird rich people.
They need a constant supply of blood to keep up it’s appearance.
Low dryer heat solves this
Honestly just wear it wet
No but seriously hang drying will help. Also not buying screen printed tees
I don’t get it.
This issue
weird, never had that happen
Buddy…
- Turn your shirt inside out before putting it in the machine.
- Set the machine to cold water, delicate/gentle cycle.
- The picture you posted is of a dry, hot desert, right? What do you think a machine called a dryer that uses heat will do? Hang them to dry on a cheap rack from Amazon or your shower curtain rod instead.
I have shirts that still look practically new after dozens and dozens of washes.
How do you insert an image like this in comments? I can only get the link to the image to show up. Thanks.
For me it’s the 5th button above the typing field for a reply/comment (bold/italic/link/emoji/“upload image”). There is also the syntax format you can manually do which you can find in the formatting help link. an ! with [] then (url) no spaces (hard to show without the format wanting to change it).
edit: I believe the proper use of “upload image” is if you want to share an image from your device which it uploads onto the lemmy server space, using the url to link to another website also works but there is always the problem of size/format of the image and if that link becomes broken your image won’t show.
hard to show without the format wanting to change it
Could use a code block for this:
When you post it the image should show up, even if it just looks like a link when typing the comment
In markdown, there is the notation []() for links. Reddit allowed it too for examples, and generally a lot of programs and platforms that have mild text formatting use markdown.
[some text](https://example.org/some-link) will turn into some textLemmy has basically extended this with ![]() which shows the content of the link
 will turn into
Where did that “some text” go? It’s basically the placeholder for when the image is loading or failed to load, the correct term is the alt-text.
The image @[email protected] was asking about uses the text
It has no alt text. Any frontent that has an image upload button or similar will upload the image somewhere, take the link, and put it into your post like this.I hope your frontend renders code-blocks and escapes with backslash (\) correctly, else this may look weird to you.
Well explained!
If the above comment looks funky, view a copy here.
If you are on the correct website, you may have a
view sourcebutton, so you can see themarkdownsource everyone writes to form their post.
Even just hang drying will do wonders. Also for your budget. That’s like 5 dollars a week saved.
It’s amazing how much it costs to use dryers. At least with California’s energy prices.
Yeah but how do they smell 👀
He ain’t say “bruh don’t even wash them”.
They don’t nose.
😂😂😂
I actually have a pretty sensitive sense of smell.
The smell is caused by bacteria blooming. If you’re using good detergent, it kills the bacteria. Likewise, soap is bipolar, so one end of the molecule grips the oils you excrete and grime you pick up, and the hydrophilic end gets it all yoinked off during the rinse.
Just fyi the term for molecules with hydrophobic and hydrophilic regions is amphipathic not bipolar.
I hate the way hanged shirts feel, so stiff and wrinkly
It’s even worse when they were innocent
Oooh.
And somehow even more dry
It’s worse when they are somehow wet at the same time.
Do you really think his mom is going to go through all that?
- OP can turn them inside out themselves when they take the shirts off and put them in the dirt clothes hamper.
- You don’t change the settings for every individual article of clothing. You turn the knob or press the button once. This is not hard.
- Hanging stuff up is easier and faster than folding it. The actual drying part is slow though.
I don’t know what’s more sexist. the comment above or the fact you played off of it seriously. Especially with point 1. Like it doesn’t even register that the above comment was an insult and not serious at all and you took that sexist joke to a serious place to play off that men aren’t expected to even be capable to turn a knob and that is somehow acceptable. Do them better than this.
Works both ways though. That was a big point of contention while I was married: if you want special treatment for any item of clothes, it’s up to you to at least turn it inside out and sort it into the “special needs” bin. I’m not reading every label on all the clothes for the entire family.
However she never did. Just complained when it went through the normal wash with hundreds of other items. Who’s your momma now? Your big hairy momma with a beard?
What’s “folding”?
Something people on message boards did back in the early 2000s where we left our computers on and cured cancer.
Yeah, aren’t you supposed to just dump your clothes into the clean hamper?
This shirt is dry clean only. Which means… it’s dirty.
I’ve had a couple of t shirts through the years where the fabric itself seems to have been dyed into an image instead of just being screen printed on. I get it obviously must be more expensive, but it holds up amazingly and I wish more places out there did this.
I once bought some cheap-ass knockoff merch shirt that was printed like that. And shit cost, like, five bucks.
(In retrospect, I’m not proud of buying products of likely slave labor, but what’s done is done.)
There is slave labor at aome point in pretty much every product you use. The cotton used for your shirt, the cocoa in your chocolate bar, the strawberry you had in your salad today, all likely had forced labor to some degree. Even the cartoon you watched last night might have been animated bu some korean child.
Lul that last point is so recent too. Crazy that north Korea was just animating for these big companies.
I’m sorry, what?
Here’s a CNN link that talks about how they were animating for shows like invincible. Iirc the people behind the show didn’t know but it’s a symptom of the problem with outsourcing everything.
Yeah oir economy is so abstract that everything becomes subcontracted out to another firm. I have a product I can’t make, so i give company X $2million to make it. They cant do it, so they give company Y$500,000 to make it. Company Y doesn’t have the means, so they pay company Z $100,000 to make it. Company Z has the ability to make it, so they pay 2 dozen people in Cambodia $3 a day for a month to make all the units i need.
Yeah it’s actually wild to find out how much of animation got exported to nations that we aren’t even allowed to trade food too.
You should check out Dan Flashes if you want some really amazing and complicated patterns.
Dan Flashes got a new shirt in today that’s $450.
I reeeally want that one!
For clothes I have 2 rules: 1) If the zipper is not made by YKK, fuck it I don’t need that article 2) I never buy cheap screen printed fabric t shirts. DTG on cotton all the way.
How can you tell about the print?
You can feel it. The DTG print is very flexible, it feels like the fibre just has another color. The screen print feels like a sheet of rubber that was attached to the shirt.
dtg?
Destiny the Game. SIVA SIVA SIVA see you in the crucible lil titan slugger Boi
holy fucking shit i can’t stop laughing. how is destiny now? stopped playing after lightfall and the vex glaive missions dropped.
Apparently, “Direct-to-Garment”. It seems to bond better with the cloth fibers.
Yes that’s it, thanks. I’m not a native speaker so I translated it, no idea if the abbreviation is used.
Washing it wrong, check the label, some clothes require specific settings, or need to be inside out
almost all of those cheap iron on thick ass layered prints do this. they grate your skin then dissolve off the shirt. I’ve taught my 9 year old how to pick out good graphic tees, no shitty iron on mass produced trash.
Survival of the fittest
I don’t want weak clothes
Lmao
Did you mean “I don’t want baggy clothes”?
Shirt: “warm hand wash please!”
Me, yeeting it into the spin cycle at 60 degrees:
My jeans must have good genes.
I like the gib of your cut
Example: one of my shirts cannot go in the dryer. It has to hang dry.
Precisely, it’s really just a matter fact of reading the tags to understand how to care for the shirt
you’re supposed to wash the turne inside out
If they look like this after a week, they are not your best t-shirts.
Also: you can actually feel, if the paint is going to look like this after some time.
Yep this is the cheapest printing method that basically stamps hot plastic into the shirt fabric. Any self respecting brand these days pays the .30 more per shirt to have them screen printed instead of vinyl or DTG printed
I swear live nation and Ticketmaster are in cahoots to keep shitty vinyl press shops in business
I swear live nation and Ticketmaster are in cahoots to keep shitty vinyl press shops in business
Shitty quality means they wear out and need replacing faster.
I wish more places just dyed the fabric. I have some shirts that are 10+ years old and look exactly like the day I bought them and they all are graphic tees with the image dyed into the shirt itself. The ones I have with a plastic-y decoration on the front, even if I take all the special precautions that other posters mention in the thread, will inevitably crack and wear out over time.
My problem is I want to get a custom design printed, and a lot of places will advertise that they screen print, but if you go to their website and create a custom design you find that they either won’t do less than X number of shirts as a minimum order, or they will just vinyl print it anyway and send you that for $35 and it will fall apart almost instantly.
Most of the time print minimums exist because there’s a cost for the printer to run the job at all, regardless of size, and that minimum is the lowest amount of products that doesn’t sound insane per item. I used to work for a printshop and we had no minimums, but if you only wanted 1 business card, that business card was going to cost like $50+. You could buy 150 for cents more than that because all you were paying for was the setup and the job happening at all. The paper and ink cost wasn’t even a factor at that size.
Some of the worst shirts I’ve seen, both fabric quality wise and print wise, have been at concerts for my favorite bands. Some of the best as well. If you want something guaranteed to last a long time you have to pay for expensive custom made designs. But then again, this defeats the purpose of directly supporting your favorites with the extra merchandize.
