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HFR
Posted 11/20/2024 12:27 (#10975242)
Subject: Stiff Carhart jackets (How to soften up)


Central Minnesota

Does anyone have a surefire way to soften up the stiff Carhart jackets/clothing fabric?  I have a bunch of them that I got as parting gifts over the years, but don't seem like I use them. It seems like you are slipping into a cardboard box.  There must be a way, or do you have to build them out the the right / different material to be flexible?

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nekfarmer
Posted 11/20/2024 12:29 (#10975246 - in reply to #10975242)
Subject: RE: Stiff Carhart jackets (How to soften up)


NE KS
Washing machine and time
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silverluv75
Posted 11/20/2024 12:30 (#10975248 - in reply to #10975242)
Subject: RE: Stiff Carhart jackets (How to soften up)


SE North Dakota
Wear the crap out of them and don’t wash them. Lol
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Lone Wolf Picker
Posted 11/20/2024 12:31 (#10975251 - in reply to #10975242)
Subject: RE: Stiff Carhart jackets (How to soften up)


Black Hawk County, IA
Throw them in with a pen of hogs ! They’ll soften up for ya ! **** Lol.
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HFR
Posted 11/20/2024 12:36 (#10975259 - in reply to #10975246)
Subject: RE: Stiff Carhart jackets (How to soften up)


Central Minnesota

nekfarmer - 11/20/2024 00:29 Washing machine and time

  Tried the washing machine, don't have hogs any more, and don't have enough time left to wear them soft. I want an easy way. LOL

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jd4930
Posted 11/20/2024 12:42 (#10975270 - in reply to #10975259)
Subject: RE: Stiff Carhart jackets (How to soften up)


Central ND
I've got one that's several years old, still stiff. Probably because im.just a crop farmer and never work ;-). They wear like steel though, only reason I retired the last one is because it shrank in the closet somehow......
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Millhouse
Posted 11/20/2024 12:43 (#10975271 - in reply to #10975242)
Subject: RE: Stiff Carhart jackets (How to soften up)


South-central Nebraska
Wash and dry with a pair of running shoes.
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School Of Hard Knock
Posted 11/20/2024 12:51 (#10975285 - in reply to #10975242)
Subject: RE: Stiff Carhart jackets (How to soften up)


Central ND
I wonder the same. I have some nice ones.... HARD as a cardboard box....... I dislike them so they don't get worn. Washing once or twice doesn't fix it.
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junk fun
Posted 11/20/2024 12:55 (#10975297 - in reply to #10975242)
Subject: RE: Stiff Carhart jackets (How to soften up)


Wisconsin
put it in the dryer on tumble/air dry, all day. Wear a turtleneck, it's the neck that always rubs me raw. Pick the most worn one and sell the rest, or sell them all and buy a normal jacket.

Edited by junk fun 11/20/2024 12:56
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JohnW
Posted 11/20/2024 13:46 (#10975369 - in reply to #10975242)
Subject: RE: Stiff Carhart jackets (How to soften up)


NW Washington
Donate the stiff Carhart at the next charity coat drive, and then buy a jacket that does not fit like a cardboard box.
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corn48
Posted 11/20/2024 14:26 (#10975419 - in reply to #10975369)
Subject: RE: Stiff Carhart jackets (How to soften up)


N.E. OHIO
I BOUGHT BERNE BIBS AND JACKET. NICE AND SOFT
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illinois-kris
Posted 11/20/2024 15:34 (#10975500 - in reply to #10975242)
Subject: RE: Stiff Carhart jackets (How to soften up)


IL
Put it in the washer on cold water pre wash with a cup of white vinegar. Let it soak for an hour then run it through a normal cycle with liquid fabric softener. Put it in the dryer on air dry with some tennis balls tor a couple cycles.

Vinegar will neutralize and flush alot of the chemicals out of the fabric that make it so stiff. You can do the same with jeans.
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Lost1
Posted 11/20/2024 17:15 (#10975587 - in reply to #10975419)
Subject: RE: Stiff Carhart jackets (How to soften up)


53925
I'm a big fan of berne Way less cost and hold up just as well.
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nabh302
Posted 11/20/2024 17:52 (#10975634 - in reply to #10975242)
Subject: RE: Stiff Carhart jackets (How to soften up)


Royal City, WA
Wear it out on a rainy day. Then toss it on a gravel road and run over it a few times with your pickup.
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feeds
Posted 11/20/2024 18:02 (#10975644 - in reply to #10975587)
Subject: RE: Stiff Carhart jackets (How to soften up)


+100 on Berne. Kinda hate to put my Berne jackets away when the weather warms up.
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mschultz
Posted 11/20/2024 19:29 (#10975783 - in reply to #10975242)
Subject: Buy some livestock


Oregon
You'll find they wear-in just fine - you just do not have enough cold weather work to do.
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wcfields
Posted 11/20/2024 19:38 (#10975805 - in reply to #10975242)
Subject: RE: Stiff Carhart jackets (How to soften up)


Chatham Ontario.
I've only bought one Carhartt jacket. Too stiff,faded pretty quick and cuffs wore prematurely because of the stiff sleeves. Over hyped product as far as I'm concerned.
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HFR
Posted 11/20/2024 19:55 (#10975826 - in reply to #10975242)
Subject: RE: Stiff Carhart jackets (How to soften up)


Central Minnesota

Well they were gifts and I'm too old to break them in with work. Giving the washing machine  another try. Used 2 cups vinegar and washed for 15 minutes with nine golf balls mixed in the load. Let soak for 3 hours.     Finished wash cycle with the vinegar mix.   Mixed a little detergent and downy fabric softener and washed another cycle. Golf balls are getting really clean. Got it in the dryer now on low heat with the same golf balls.   A little noisy upstairs. See how it works in a couple hours.

        Oh they are the hard old Top Flites.  They should beat up the jacket a little.

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KFLAgri
Posted 11/20/2024 20:19 (#10975868 - in reply to #10975805)
Subject: RE: Stiff Carhart jackets (How to soften up)


wcfields - 11/20/2024 20:38

I've only bought one Carhartt jacket. Too stiff,faded pretty quick and cuffs wore prematurely because of the stiff sleeves. Over hyped product as far as I'm concerned.


I won a Carhartt coat once. Good prize but a terrible coat. Way too stiff. I like my Tough Duck coats a lot better, they are a lot softer on day one than the Carhartt is years later. Thought about putting it in a clean cement mixer with some baseballs or something to try and mechanically wear it in.
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TWB
Posted 11/21/2024 05:52 (#10976219 - in reply to #10975242)
Subject: RE: Stiff Carhart jackets (How to soften up)


The stiffness of a new Carhart jacket is what makes them repel rain and stay dry. I was told don’t wash them till you really need too.
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Shimmy1
Posted 11/21/2024 06:39 (#10976268 - in reply to #10975826)
Subject: RE: Stiff Carhart jackets (How to soften up)



Central ND
HFR - 11/20/2024 19:55

Well they were gifts and I'm too old to break them in with work. Giving the washing machine  another try. Used 2 cups vinegar and washed for 15 minutes with nine golf balls mixed in the load. Let soak for 3 hours.     Finished wash cycle with the vinegar mix.   Mixed a little detergent and downy fabric softener and washed another cycle. Golf balls are getting really clean. Got it in the dryer now on low heat with the same golf balls.   A little noisy upstairs. See how it works in a couple hours.

        Oh they are the hard old Top Flites.  They should beat up the jacket a little.



I wish I had your problems.

I have tried them all. Multiple times. Anyone that claims that Berne, Key, or anything else that doesn't say Carhartt is just as good does not work in them. Nothing else lasts under hard use, and it's not even close.

If this latest endeavor doesn't break them down enough to make them usable, please find someone to give them to before wrecking them any further.

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Shimmy1
Posted 11/21/2024 06:41 (#10976270 - in reply to #10975783)
Subject: RE: Buy some livestock



Central ND
mschultz - 11/20/2024 19:29

You'll find they wear-in just fine - you just do not have enough cold weather work to do.


Exactly.
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bustedknuckles52
Posted 11/21/2024 07:09 (#10976310 - in reply to #10975242)
Subject: RE: Stiff Carhart jackets (How to soften up)



NE Ohio
hang them on a line and beat the crap out of them with a 1/4" steel rod.
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