How often do you wash school blazer?

@StressfulBedtimes
Wool blazers are dry clean only. My DDs wore them as coats. In and out of school. They didn’t wear them all day. At prep, DD2’s was protected by a cloak in bad weather. Shirts weekly wash. Skirts occasional. Pullovers were washable wool. So when needed. Tights: all the time!

I think it is very dependent on what those items are made of, as previously posted, wool blazers breathe. DD's shirts are 100% cotton, changed every other day, skirts changed once a week (they only get sat on), jumpers again 100% heavy cotton knit, one a week. Looking at standard M&S/Next etc type uniform it is all polyester or poly cotton so bound to get more smelly.

I wash year 8 DS' every week otherwise it would stink. Even though he puts deodorant on and showers every day he can get quite smelly on a warm day.

Year 11 DD's I wash probably once a fortnight, maybe less during the winter.

Wow I am really surprised at these responses
If you are all only washing blazers once a year how often do you was the rest of the uniform??

My high school DC wear shirt, jumper, blazer & tie (and skirt or trousers obviously) they have a new shirt every day, 2 jumpers a week and two skirt or trousers a week changing it over midweek
Blazer & tie gets washed every Friday

I suspect more than one of the DC who’s parents are on this thread are the smelly kid in school … covered up with febreeze of course just to make it worse 🤦🏻‍♀️

ours are wool and dry clean only. I dry clean it once a year and wash it on a cold machine cycle every half term.

@SweetsAndChocolates

My DDs prep had beautiful quality wool blazers. Dry cleaned it once. The school uniform had a cloak that went over the top. Cleaned that once also. At senior school they had wool blazers although not such good quality. Again the rare dry clean. My DDs didn’t wear these blazers in class but did when moving between buildings. I am glad they were not yuk polyester. Buy the wool/wool blend one. Much nicer to wear! You simply don’t wash them. Just make sure DC doesn’t lose it!

DS never brought it home from school. when it did appear I discovered it was held together with safety pins. I can’t imagine what the staff thought of me!

it only occurred to me after a whole school year that I can bang the blazer in the machine! They are indeed washable who would've thought.

Could you maybe just steam
Them with the steamer ?

Every week - they stink! I’d rather a faded blazer than a stinky one! Theirs can just be chucked in a gentle wash (low spin) and then hang in the airing cupboard.

With my eldest hers lasted from yr9-11 wasn’t that bad! But definitely couldn’t hand it down to younger daughter.

Blazer and ties every Friday Evening at 30 degrees.

I do them every half term, but if it starts smelling sooner then it gets washed.

I bought wool ones specially as it is breathable, cooler in summer, much less sweaty.

I brush and spot clean if needed and dry clean the blazers once a year, they are fine.

To be fair, even the blazers I deal with in my volunteer capacity are rarely smelly - neither 'armpitty' nor 'lworn forevermore by human-y'. Its the amount of just plain old dirt that some of them have managed to absorb.

Some of these methods sound more effor than just washing them.

Both dds have two they get worn twice then washed. Polyester is plastic. Shirts are thin.

I actually think the wool ones are better value for money. They don't get stinky because wool breathes. You only need to dry clean them yearly (well I did anyway). They last for years and years, and then you can sell them on second hand, or buy them second hand, and then re-sell. Bargain!

Once mid week and then at weekends
The smell is awful against the polyester

I turn it inside out, douse the pits with vinegar, hang for a bit, then wash with dettol laundry- it's the only way to get it to come out smelling clean

Left not eat!

I eat the sixth form in1976. I had one blazer throughout senior school, which was way too big for me when I was 11. I'm pretty sure it was NEVER washed or dry cleaned!

When otherwise necessary (DS1 managed to get himself a head injury once, minor but bled quite a lot, and getting that sorted out overnight, blazer-wise, was interesting; DS2 came home one day with most of someone else's lunch on his - tipped tray in till queue incident), or half-termly.

I look after the secondhand uniform for a local school and always bring blazers home to wash. I was once assured that a particular donation had been dry-cleaned, was slightly suspicious, started to wash it by hand as I had nothing else to going in the machine at the time - and at first dip, the water started turning brown... I often suspect that blazers bought new for sixth form never get washed once in the two years before they come my way at the end of year 13.

When DD changed schools a week before the end of year 7, her new blazer was one of those 'eco' ones with more warnings about how you could completely ruin it othen actual washing instructions. (You know the ones - it will turn back into a pile of old plastic bottles if you even leave it in the same room as an iron etc). I freaked and took it to the dry cleaners, only to be told, If it says washable, we wash it. It survived.

Every half term and end of term so every 6 weeks ish.

Once a week , inside out, on a really delicate wash cycle. Current blazer has lasted 2 years already !

Every couple of weeks until they get older and sweaty then weekly. Can't believe some people leave them so long or don't wash them at all!