Given: 100% cotton dress shirts always worn with tie and buttoned snuggly
(military style). Laundered commercially after one day's use. Applies to
those bought right off the shelf and those custom made over the past 45
years.
Problem: Within months, collar begins to show signs of discoloration which
grows increasingly worse. Before I kick the bucket... I'd sure as heck like
to find an answer to these two questions:
Q1) How remove prevent?
Q2) How prevent?
I doubt very much if you can prevent. It's the nature of human skin
to be oily and the nature of white dress shirts to yellow/wear in that
area over time. I use a Spray n' Wash type product on my husbands
until they will not come clean, then he uses them for yard work or
rags. Face it, nothing lasts forever. You could, however, take them
to a good seamstress and have the collars turned over to make them
last longer.
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Piper
Good thought, Piper. However, by the time I reach the point to turn the
collar, the shirt has been through the laundry so many times the fabric at
the elbows is getting weak. I'm the best dressed gardener on the block;
dress whites all the way!
wrote:
John Gregory wrote:
Given: 100% cotton dress shirts always worn with tie and buttoned
snuggly (military style). Laundered commercially after one day's use.
Applies to those bought right off the shelf and those custom made over
the past 45 years.
Problem: Within months, collar begins to show signs of discoloration
which grows increasingly worse. Before I kick the bucket... I'd sure as
heck like
to find an answer to these two questions:
Q1) How remove prevent?
Q2) How prevent?
removeable collars will solve your problem
how would mrs bonk know that?! <g>
look at a standard collar. observe how easy it would be to unpick the upper
portion from the base: the upper portion is just tucked into the lower part
& the opening stitched across. your observation is correct: it's that easy.
turn it round the other way & sew it back in.
:-)
kylie
p.s. if you wear extremely classy shirts, one or both sides may well be
hand-sewn, thus negating what i've said in terms of ease to do, although the
principle is the same, of course. in that case, persist if you will. :-)
100% cotton is supposed to be better for shirt collars because
synthetic fibers can hang onto skin oil worse than cotton.
Heat from drying and ironing can set collar stains. Denture
tablets work on some kinds of collar stains.
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I fill a spray bottle 1/2 with oily hair shampoo and top off with
water and spray this on collar so that it soaks all the way through.
to prevent, consider keeping the haircut above collar level, and
wiping the neck with an astringent immediately after showering and
before putting on that shirt. If you shower the night before,
consider showering in the morning shortly before dressing
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