shirts that releases lots of "little hair" during washing

• Nikar2

  6 Jun 07, 22:33

  recently, i bought 3 shirts from Giordano for $18 total (great singapore sale).
  all are black ones, and when my mom put the shirts in a basin to soak and wash with other shirts, the little linen "fur" from the shirts come off when contact with water and you can see tons of very tiny tiny fabric bits in the water.
  and when you put white shirts to soak with these black shirts, you can see tons of black fabric bits latching onto the white shirts.
  
  is this due to the quality of the shirts? i got 1 other black shirt whose quality is very good and it doesn't give off any "hairs" when washed.
  
  anyone knows whether there's a better way to wash these kind of shirts?
  my mom didn't use the washing machine, she never scrub the shirts and she never use bleach or anything. just gentle water soaking and it still happens.
  
  any advice would be good.
  
  thanks all,
  nikar.
• Darkness_hacker99

  6 Jun 07, 22:34

  The shirt should have washing advice..
• Technomage

  6 Jun 07, 22:35

  dont wash with towel
• dbowie

  6 Jun 07, 22:42

  Originally posted by Nikar2:

  recently, i bought 3 shirts from Giordano for $18 total (great singapore sale).
  all are black ones, and when my mom put the shirts in a basin to soak and wash with other shirts, the little linen "fur" from the shirts come off when contact with water and you can see tons of very tiny tiny fabric bits in the water.
  and when you put white shirts to soak with these black shirts, you can see tons of black fabric bits latching onto the white shirts.
  
  is this due to the quality of the shirts? i got 1 other black shirt whose quality is very good and it doesn't give off any "hairs" when washed.
  
  anyone knows whether there's a better way to wash these kind of shirts?
  my mom didn't use the washing machine, she never scrub the shirts and she never use bleach or anything. just gentle water soaking and it still happens.
  
  any advice would be good.
  
  thanks all,
  nikar.

  
  Because 3 for $18 is from Giordano
• sermodabian

  7 Jun 07, 10:24

  Giordano what. thats why so cheap.
• Wanda

  7 Jun 07, 10:26

  You mixed whites with dark colours in the laundry?
  
  Oh no, you'd even soak them together.
• spinsugar

  7 Jun 07, 12:59

  Originally posted by Nikar2:

  recently, i bought 3 shirts from Giordano for $18 total (great singapore sale).
  all are black ones, and when my mom put the shirts in a basin to soak and wash with other shirts, the little linen "fur" from the shirts come off when contact with water and you can see tons of very tiny tiny fabric bits in the water.
  and when you put white shirts to soak with these black shirts, you can see tons of black fabric bits latching onto the white shirts.
  
  is this due to the quality of the shirts? i got 1 other black shirt whose quality is very good and it doesn't give off any "hairs" when washed.
  
  anyone knows whether there's a better way to wash these kind of shirts?
  my mom didn't use the washing machine, she never scrub the shirts and she never use bleach or anything. just gentle water soaking and it still happens.
  
  any advice would be good.
  
  thanks all,
  nikar.

  that's lint.... cheap shirts, cheap threads.. 1stly u can't mix colours.. 2ndly, it's normal for new cheap shirts to have alot of loose little threads... 3rdly, don't soak in anything above room temperature, or with too much strong detergent.. they kill cheap threads