Freezing!!

[KenB]

An interesting item jumped up.
http://ca.shine.yahoo.com/quick-tip-...190000285.html
I'm wondering if this process would work with a kilt? Interesting, eh? I would like to hear your opinions.

[Tobus]

Interesting concept. But I think it's humorous that they tout it as planet-friendly while advocating electricity usage and purchasing a larger freezer.

Probably the most planet-friendly and fabric-friendly option would be to collect rainwater (filtered), hand-wash the jeans in that, and use a clothes line to dry them. Incidentally, this works well for kilts too.

[sydnie7]

Can't hurt it. My nephew wears his great-grandfather's kilt, which was kept in a freezer for several decades before being passed along.

[Dale-of-Cedars]

See a re'butt'al here:

http://gizmodo.com/5857596/sorry-lev...t-ungross-them

[MacConnachie]

I'm looking for a freezer for my wool kilts and other woolen clothing and gear. The moths get so bad at times of the year that I've had to resort to putting mothballs in cedar chests, and inspecting the garments on a regular basis. Now that cold weather has arrived here in Montana, I can put the clothing outside (in cloth bags on an upper story deck) and let any eggs the little buggers may have deposited freeze over the course of a couple of nights, but I still need to be planning for next year's moth season. It's disappointing. They've gotten to a couple of woolen blankets, and there's a pinhole in the under-apron of a casual kilt in Robertson Red, but that's been the extent of the damage, recently. I have way too much invested in these items to just let them go . . .

[Pleater]

I know several knitters who keep their most valuable yarn and knitted items in the freezer for a week or so after putting them in those thick plastic vacuum bags for storage until needed or over the warmer months.

Having had moths and carpet beetles get at some treasured garments over the years it is only sensible to safeguard them as much as possible.

I don't think I'll be doing that with jeans though.

Anne the Pleater

[pugcasso]

wearing a kilt is the most 'environmentally friendly' .... really, how often do you wash a kilt anyway

[Jay]

Freezing raw denim works... If it's denim. Levi's hasn't sold denim jeans in a long time. They sell blue cotton twill that they call jeans.


It's like calling a plaid women's skirt a kilt because it kind of looks like one.