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A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
Buddy...
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.
Do you really think his mom is going to go through all that?
What’s “folding”?
Yeah, aren't you supposed to just dump your clothes into the clean hamper?
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.
I wash all my band shirts in a washing machine at 40C with only color detergent and no fabric softener. I hang dry the tshirts on hangers instead of folding them over the clothes line or using clothes pins. Absolutely no dryer outside of whatever the washing machine does.
It works pretty well. The real secret is to have about 30 of them so you don't wash them every week.
Edit: like another commenter said, wash your clothes inside out.
If you didn't sweat much in them/ they aren't that dirty then 30° also does the job.
Honestly, even I was even my gym clothes on cold, and it works just fine. The hotter settings are more for stain removal.
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...
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.
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.)
Air dry your graphic tees people!
No cracks, no fading. You're welcome
Or use the dryer on low.
The fact that anyone is using anything higher than low for their clothes is shocking. If your clothes aren’t drying, it means you need to split the load into 2 separate ones, people!
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
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.
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.
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.
Me, who always buys plain shirts...
Its like being a billboard but instead you paid the company a days worth of your labor for the right to advertise on behalf of them while they're paying others for that same service.
They said "a cool design" and nothing at all about any logo or intellectual property. Maybe it's a sick dragon playing a guitar.
You should check out Dan Flashes if you want some really amazing and complicated patterns.
Low dryer heat solves this
Honestly just wear it wet
No but seriously hang drying will help. Also not buying screen printed tees
Don't put them in the dryer and they last longer. Air dry is the best way to preserve these kind of designs.
