Best way to wash kilt hose?

[Bugbear]

I don't seem to be able to find my links to the how to wash wool topics,, but basically do your best to not adgetate, twist, or ring them... I wish I could find that link for you, sorry.

[Canuck]

Put them on when you take a bath or shower. Use hand soap, give them a good scrub, rinse, peel them off gently wring them out and drape them over the shower rod to drip dry. Got yourself clean at the same time!

[The Wizard of BC]

I have had very good luck putting my Wool/Nylon blend hose in one of those mesh bags that women use for their underthings. Then putting them in the washer in cold water with liquid detergent.

When they come out of the washer I gently pull them into their normal shape and hang over a line in the laundry room overnight.

The Mesh bag keeps down agitation to a minimum. That paired with the cold water and I haven't had a bit of a problem.

If you have a problem with washing hose ask your wife or girlfriend to give you some pointers about washing "delicates".

If you don't have a lady in your life, go to your local laundromat. Stand there in your kilt with a pair of hose in your hand and a really pitifully look on your face. It will only take about ten minutes before someone asks if you need help.

[emolas]

If you don't have a lady in your life, go to your local laundromat. Stand there in your kilt with a pair of hose in your hand and a really pitifully look on your face. It will only take about ten minutes before someone asks if you need help.

And a date, with any luck.

I soak mine for a day in cold water with baby shampoo then rinse them out and hang to dry. No agitation is they key to keeping their size and shape.

[M. A. C. Newsome]

I have quite a collection of kilt hose, both store bought and hand knit, and all of them are wool blends to some degree or other. I machine wash them.

If you have a pair of 100% wool hose, or if you are an irregular kilt wearer and only wear your hose every so often, it would definitely be worth your while to hand wash them. You can wash them in the sink with a little woolite, following the instructions on the bottle. Heck, you can take them in the bath with you and wash them with some shampoo if you like (wool is hair, after all!). Conditioner would make them nice and soft!

But if you are like me and wear the kilt often, and end up with a whole basket full of kilt hose, to wash, you might find machine washing to be more reasonable. As I said, all of mine are wool blend to some degree. I just wash them (by which I mean, my wife washed them), on the gentle/delicate cycle, in cold water. Then we let them air dry. DO NOT PUT THEM IN THE DRYER (unless you are trying to get hose to fit your kilted cabbage patch doll).

In my years of washing hose this way, once or twice I have had an irregular pair of hose shrink using this method, even if they were a wool blend like my others. So it's not fool-proof. But I find it to work very well with most hose available on the market, as well as what my wife has knit for me.

(what my bedroom looks like on laundry day)