School blazers

[doodles]

BBB I bought some stain removing wipes today in Tesco (own brand) and they are miraculous, even got red biro off the white stripe on my new sweatshirt.

Innocent sounding jelly is a complete nightmare believe me, it leaves horrible greasy marks, well it did on the wall in the sitting room

[BucksBornNBred]

Ooh, thanks Doodles - I am in Tesco tomorrow so will look out for them. And yes, jelly seems to be a nightmare - every time I wipe it away and it looks good it comes back when the blazer is dry! I usually use a well known yellow branded carpet cleaner to remove stains from clothes (recommended by my trusty old book) and that works really well but I don't think I would risk it on black material. It is just the idea of putting a blazer in the washing machine and then needing to iron it (Persil advice says you need to, which is why I wanted some first hand experience before I ruin his uniform!)

[kenyancowgirl]

I iron nothing...certainly not Blazers!!!

[BucksBornNBred]

Brillaint KCG!! A woman after my own heart Then I shall wash it during the holidays (on the gentlest wash I can find!)
Thanks for all the help

[ToadMum]

Our blazers go in a 30 degree wash, 1400 spin, with everything else darkish. One of them is one of those sanctimonious Eco ones which has a label warning that practically anything you do to it will ruin it, but I've rather given up taking any notice of that, apart from the not using steam thing, in respect of which I just press it through a dry cloth if it needs to be ironed .

[BucksBornNBred]

Any ironing Toadmum?

[ToadMum]

Any ironing Toadmum?

'Press' as in with warm iron through the dry cloth .

[BucksBornNBred]

Any ironing Toadmum?

'Press' as in with warm iron through the dry cloth .

I missed the subtle use of the word "press"

Thanks for all the advice - and fingers crossed that I'm not the first person to ruin a polyester blazer in a washing machine

[scary mum]

Anyone else got a mental image of young master BBB walking around in a shrunken blazer and BBB blaming all of us?!
PS it's never occurred to me to dry clean a polyester blazer! Not that I've checked the instructions

[BucksBornNBred]

Anyone else got a mental image of young master BBB walking around in a shrunken blazer and BBB blaming all of us?!
PS it's never occurred to me to dry clean a polyester blazer! Not that I've checked the instructions

I did mean to add that I would NOT be blaming anyone here if it all goes wrong. Though I will let you know if it does go wrong and then you can all find your own level of guilt

But I must admit it didn't occur to me to check what the blazer was made of; I just looked at the care instructions side ... doh