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Invention

NativeJax — Sat, 11 Feb 2017 17:33:28 GMT

I would like to see a laundry product that you could wash your clothes and when they come out wet and you hange them to dry there would be no wrinkles. I hang most of my clothes to dry with the exception of bedding and towels.

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Plaid Pants2 — Sat, 11 Feb 2017 17:41:48 GMT

I remember my mom hanging the clothes on the clothesline to dry, and the laundry gently flapping in the breeze.

The clothes never had any wrinkles on them.

She even put towles and sheets on the clothesline to dry!

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cherry — Sat, 11 Feb 2017 17:44:00 GMT

@Plaid Pants2 they used to make better fabrics than they do now. I never had stuff that came out all wrinkled ,until they started buying all the clothing from abroad

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Bri21 — Sat, 11 Feb 2017 17:45:11 GMT

I think the washing machines spin the clothes so hard that the clothes come out of the machine so wrinkled. It's like everything gets twisted up.

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deepwaterdotter — Sat, 11 Feb 2017 18:01:43 GMT

@Plaid Pants2 wrote:
I remember my mom hanging the clothes on the clothesline to dry, and the laundry gently flapping in the breeze.

The clothes never had any wrinkles on them.

She even put towles and sheets on the clothesline to dry!

I loved the way my fresh bed linens smelled after being line-dried. We lived in the relatively air pollution-free suburbs in the 1960's.

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SilleeMee — Sat, 11 Feb 2017 18:04:50 GMT

My washer has a gentle-spin cycle for delicates. But I also use it when I want to hang-dry some things and this makes them come out of the washer less wrinkled.

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NativeJax — Sat, 11 Feb 2017 18:38:06 GMT

I will try the gentle cycle. I don't have a clothes line I live in a condo but my grandmother always line dried and you are tight, never any wrinkles! my clothes usually do very well drying outside but when I was my son's dress shirts and pants not so much:-( I end up having to iron them.

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Perkup — Sat, 11 Feb 2017 20:09:11 GMT

@Plaid Pants2 wrote:
I remember my mom hanging the clothes on the clothesline to dry, and the laundry gently flapping in the breeze.

The clothes never had any wrinkles on them.

She even put towles and sheets on the clothesline to dry!

We did hang everything out to dry - there was no such thing as a clothes dryer or we would have dried them inside!! But thru the years of outdoor hanging, my things did have wrinkles and needed ironing much of the time. Possibly because the clothes had to be put thru a wringer to get water out. (There weren't any fabric softeners either, and only 1 detergent type item I can remember.)

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QueenDanceALot — Sat, 11 Feb 2017 20:20:16 GMT

@Plaid Pants2 wrote:
I remember my mom hanging the clothes on the clothesline to dry, and the laundry gently flapping in the breeze.

The clothes never had any wrinkles on them.

She even put towles and sheets on the clothesline to dry!

We had one of those, too.

And not only did they not have wrinkles, they SMELLED SO GOOD!

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software — Sat, 11 Feb 2017 20:23:13 GMT

I use a bit of fabric softener in the rinse cycle.

The clothes still look wrinkled but once dried, they are OK

I dry my laundry outside.

@NativeJax wrote:
I would like to see a laundry product that you could wash your clothes and when they come out wet and you hange them to dry there would be no wrinkles. I hang most of my clothes to dry with the exception of bedding and towels.

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blackhole99 — Sat, 11 Feb 2017 20:53:51 GMT

If there is no wind even if you line dry ,the clothes will come off the line with some wrinkles. I remember my Mom ironing every thing from my Dads boxer shorts to sheets.

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Kachina624 — Sun, 12 Feb 2017 05:53:05 GMT

Factories in the US used to put a perma-press finish on new clothing after the garment was finished as part of the manufacturing process. When clothing manufacturing went overseas that went away and people seldom noticed it was gone apparently since we never heard much about it.

I was a committed home sewer in those days (70s). I bought a product in a bottle at the grocery store which I think was called "Wrinkles Away" with which you could put the perma-press finish on homemade garments.

It was quite a process which involved soaking the garment in the liquid, drying it, then carefully ironing out every wrinkle, then "setting" it with heat from the dryer...... Or something like this. It worked great and I never had to iron even 100% cotton items again. That product disappeared and was never seen again, so the technology exists but it's not being used.

Does anyone else remember this product?

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CelticCrafter — Sun, 12 Feb 2017 11:22:06 GMT

Put them in the dryer on a NO HEAT cycle for about 5 minutes. It doesn't dry them but will take the wrinkles out and then you can hang them to dry.

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SilleeMee — Sun, 12 Feb 2017 14:01:55 GMT

@Kachina624 wrote:
Factories in the US used to put a perma-press finish on new clothing after the garment was finished as part of the manufacturing process. When clothing manufacturing went overseas that went away and people seldom noticed it was gone apparently since we never heard much about it.

I was a committed home sewer in those days (70s). I bought a product in a bottle at the grocery store which I think was called "Wrinkles Away" with which you could put the perma-press finish on homemade garments.

It was quite a process which involved soaking the garment in the liquid, drying it, then carefully ironing out every wrinkle, then "setting" it with heat from the dryer...... Or something like this. It worked great and I never had to iron even 100% cotton items again. That product disappeared and was never seen again, so the technology exists but it's not being used.

Does anyone else remember this product?

I remember this stuff. My mom and I were seamstresses. My mom would use this stuff on my dad's uniforms and it kept them looking like they were freshly pressed all the time. This treatment stuff was discontinued because it was toxic. I believe the reason why we don't see "permanent press" fabrics is because the process involves formaldehyde.

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Kachina624 — Mon, 13 Feb 2017 00:25:25 GMT

@SilleeMee I'm so glad someone besides me remembers this stuff. I wondered if maybe toxicity was the problem, but we've lived to tell about it. Too bad they can't come up with something without the formaldehyde. Except for killing you, it was a great product.