Quick guide:
- Wash before you wear it for the first time — this helps set the dyes.
- Machine wash on a short cycle at 30°C (86°F).
- Don’t soak or hand wash.
- Don’t use the delicate/gentle cycle.
- Don’t spin on high speed.
- Don’t tumble dry.
- Don’t use bleach to remove stains.
A bit more detail:
Hand washing — and especially soaking — isn’t a good idea for our polos and tees. Since piqué fabric is 100% cotton, it holds color less well than blends with synthetic fibers, and many of our pieces combine several colors, sometimes contrasting ones.
Soaking or washing at high temperatures can cause the fabric (and the taped trims) to bleed. Prints and embroidery can also lose color or shape. None of this happens if you stick to a short 30°C machine cycle.
Skip the delicate or hand-wash setting too — it keeps the garment soaking in low-agitation water for a long time, which can cause bleeding just the same. And avoid high-speed spinning: it can strain the fabric and make ironing harder afterward.
Here’s a trick worth knowing: spin on a light setting (up to 800 rpm), then hang the polo to air dry. Done this way, it should hold its shape well enough that you can skip ironing altogether — and your embroidery and prints will thank you, since they can’t be ironed directly anyway (only inside-out or through a cloth).
Never bleach these pieces. If you do get a stain, use a gentle stain remover made for colored fabrics.
One more thing: our polos shrink a little after their first wash. That’s just how the fabric behaves, and we’ve already factored it into the pattern — so no need to worry, the fit holds up just fine afterward.
