JCP quality has gone downhill but probably still best moderate priced T shirts (St John's Bay). The fabric is cotton but thinner than it used to be.
JCP quality has gone downhill but probably still best moderate priced T shirts (St John's Bay). The fabric is cotton but thinner than it used to be.
I'm almost always in a t-shirt, long-sleeved in winter and short-sleeved in summer. Most of my t-shirts are from LL Bean, and I've yet to wear one out. My oldest one has to be close to 20 years old. So they may not have the cheapest up-front cost, but my per-wear cost must be excellent.
There’s no way I could wear something regularly for 20 years in a casual way. Grease stains! Food falls on my chest. I am messy.Originally Posted by rosarugosa
And I have plenty of T-shirts, I just did a big weed of them and threw away at least a dozen. But those are casual, around-the-house -and -garden T-shirts.
The special buy T-shirt was for going places. It’s important that my arms are covered when appearing in the general public!
After finding brake clean as a stain remover, I NEVER throw tops away now.
Brake clean--will have to try this.
I think it was Float-on who shared the stain removing tip of using a 50/50 combination of Blue Dawn and hydrogen peroxide. It it very, very effective. I did once bleach a shirt by leaving the mixture on overnight, so don't do that! I am careful with my clothing and a careful laundress. I have stained a favorite shirt, and just kept treating the spot and laundering it every time I did a load, and eventually the stain came out.
I am skeptical. Grease on natural fabrics? These methods remove grease on cotton? On linen?
I’m training myself to be more careful with clothes I wear when “ out.” When I come home I immediately go upstairs and change clothes. I try not to just sit around for hours in clothes I want to keep clean.
Last edited by iris lilies; 3-30-26 at 11:23am.
IL, I too wear a good deal of my food. I have trained myself to match my shirt to whatever food I'm planning to eat. Italian? red/pink/orange floral or paisley. Lots of coffee? green/brown/leaf and vine prints. Ice cream? Since I generally go for black raspberry chip or chocolate peanut butter, I wear something darker with lots of swirls. It's much easier that way, lol.....
But I do have plenty of plain ( and plane) shirts, and I like the dawn/peroxide hack. Sometimes I just don't know where we'll end up, so ya gotta be ready for anything! And tide pens. I LOVE tide pens. Couple years ago we were driving through Valley Forge. It was hot and I was driving. DD was in charge of the cooler and we decided to open some of those little V-8 cans. The first one open was slushy-cold and really good. DD opened the second one and it nearly exploded. Like shaken-Coke exploded. Those tiny cans hold a LOT and a good deal of it went onto my NOT tomato colored shirt. And a tide pen daubed it all away, right there in the van.... that sold me!
Wow,.tide pens.Interesting.
wearing clothes same color as food haha! But it's the grease that is my problem not necessarily the color of the food. But yeah, coffee can be messy and my new clothing scheme does include room for tan tops!
IL: You might be interested in this product. It's specifically for grease-based stains. My mom was a huge fan and I learned about this product from her.
https://janiebrand.com/products/janie-dry-stick%C2%AE
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