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Shrinking a shirt...?

  • 14-05-2007 9:10pm
    #1
    pbsuxok1znja4r
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,312 ✭✭✭


    This will sound odd, I'm sure, but I'm wondering, is it possible to shrink a shirt down a size, and do so in a proportional manner? i.e. so it's not just certain seamed parts that shrink...

    There's this shirt I really want to order online but it's been discontinued and is only available in large, which is just too big, as I take a medium...sad, I know. I could just try start piling on the pounds instead, lol.

    For example, can clothes actually shrink in the washer/dryer or is that notion actually a load of flim-flam, poppycock and utter bishbosh?

    Well, thanks for any tips!


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  • #2
    cee_jay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭cee_jay


    Clothes can actually shrink in the wash, but getting it to shrink so shrinks in a proportional manner is fairly difficult I think.
    If its an expensive shirt, I wouldn't chance it


  • #3
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    If it's a nice shirt, just get it altered. If you boil it, it may shrink disproportionately or too much.


  • #4
    skywalker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,707 ✭✭✭skywalker


    I shrunk a fair few of my clothes recently, Ive just got too much stuff that was too big for me & I was at the point of throwing em out cause I realised Id never wear them again.

    In any case after a fair bit of research I found if you wash em on a really hot wash & straight after put them into the tumble dryer you'l have the best chance of shrinking them. I had mixed results, some things barely shrunk & some things definitely noticably shrunk, cant say I noticed any of them coming out disproportionately.

    You will have the best luck with newer clothes, preferably do this with brand new stuff.


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