My cotton shirt won't shrink - driving me crazy

norie92

Hi MFP,

I recently bought 2 shirts at the store. Both 100% cotton. One blue, one red. I shrank one successfully, the other is being stubborn.

Total, I have 8 of the same shirt.
6 of them, black, shrank easily.
1 of them, blue, shrank easily.
1 of them, red, is being stubborn.

What gives?? It's the same shirt. Same brand. Same model # (or whatever it's called for shirts). Same everything except color.

I've washed it on hot and dried it on hot twice now. I've tried washing and drying it with other clothes, I've tried washing and drying it alone.

Help!

Monkey_Business

If you leave them in the closet over time they will shrink. At least that is what happened to my wardrobe. just saying......

PewterSky

I'm not clear what you mean by it's not shrinking? Cotton shrinks when it gets wet, you don't always see a visible difference with shrinkage except for wrinkling of fabric and slight thickening at times. I'm thinking perhaps this particular one is made of preshrunk fabric, which might explain why it won't shrink any further.

_incogNEATo_

Why are you using hot water? Cold is what causes shrinkage for me??

norie92

It can't be pre-shrunk. It's not high-end clothing or anything, and they always shrink. That's why I bought it. I just can't understand why the red one won't shrink when all the other ones did easily.

mikeshockley

Monkey_Business wrote: »

If you leave them in the closet over time they will shrink. At least that is what happened to my wardrobe. just saying......

Lol!!! #truefact

PewterSky

Both cold or hot water will cause shrinkage. It's not necessary that it's unshrunk, is it a bright red colour?

Most times to achieve bright colours, white fabric is dyed to the required colour since dyed yarns dont always yield best results. When that happens then your fabric has been shrunk in the dying process already and won't shrink more, unless it's specifically states on the tag that its unshrunk fabric I think this might be it.

velocityc6

mine shrunk this weekend, I ate pizza and drank beer

norie92

PewterSky wrote: »

Both cold or hot water will cause shrinkage. It's not necessary that it's unshrunk, is it a bright red colour?

Most times to achieve bright colours, white fabric is dyed to the required colour since dyed yarns dont always yield best results. When that happens then your fabric has been shrunk in the dying process already and won't shrink more, unless it's specifically states on the tag that its unshrunk fabric I think this might be it.

I hope this isn't what happened but it sounds pretty plausible.

I have a hunch it may just have the wrong size tag and it's actually a large instead of medium like the tag says.

Going to go exchange it and tell em that and see what happens.

cdlee05

"i was in the pool!"

ronronronj

#FirstWorldProblems

PewterSky

Hope it gets sorted