511 Tactical kilt is back

[tundramanq]

Does anyone actually follow the instruction tag and close and snap all snaps for washing inside out and then tumble dry? Do you have to touch up iron?

I follow the Utilikilt routine of washing ( gentle, cool, in a front loader ), open, removable pockets removed. Then I tug the apron edges, double clip hanger dry with weighted clothes pinned pleats. I never need to press these kilts. Hanging and pinning for drying only takes about 5 minutes as there are only 12 pleat and apron edges to do. They dry quite fast on my kilt drying rack ( 4-5 hours ) with a pair of very quiet, low velocity fans blowing up from the bottom. Half the dry time of cotton denim Utilikilts. These are my recent replacement fans as I wore out the original ones - 8W X 2 fans = 16W. Ball bearing and I can't hear them running from 6 feet away.
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Stitched pleat edge thread tends to try to shrink the edge length, making rumples at the edge if you don't tug and stretch them out while still damp. The TDKs aprons have a triple row of stitching around the apron edges and so they need a really good tug and one ounce weighted pins to prevent rumpling and causing the under apron pleats to want to splay from a shortened apron edge.