|
|
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? |
|
|
|
NE KS | Washing machine and time |
|
|
|
SE North Dakota | Wear the crap out of them and don’t wash them. Lol |
|
|
|
Black Hawk County, IA | Throw them in with a pen of hogs ! They’ll soften up for ya ! **** Lol. |
|
|
|
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 |
|
|
|
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...... |
|
|
|
South-central Nebraska | Wash and dry with a pair of running shoes. |
|
|
|
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. |
|
|
|
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
|
|
|
|
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. |
|
|
|
N.E. OHIO | I BOUGHT BERNE BIBS AND JACKET. NICE AND SOFT |
|
|
|
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. |
|
|
|
53925 | I'm a big fan of berne Way less cost and hold up just as well. |
|
|
|
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. |
|
|
|
| +100 on Berne. Kinda hate to put my Berne jackets away when the weather warms up. |
|
|
|
Oregon | You'll find they wear-in just fine - you just do not have enough cold weather work to do. |
|
|
|
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. |
|
|
|
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. |
|
|
|
| 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. |
|
|
|
| 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. |
|
|
|
 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.
|
|
|
|
 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. |
|
|
|
 NE Ohio | hang them on a line and beat the crap out of them with a 1/4" steel rod. |
|
|