To wash my underwired bras in my washing machine, do you??

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Hi there - all of my bras are underwired. I have a sparkly new washing machine. The instructions dictate that I am NOT to wash said bras in said machine. Now I have been warned this before but have washed said bras in other machines (only 2 machines ever, one, second hand, had for 10 years and the second, had from new for nearly 13 years - just so you know I don't have the bodies of hundreds of wrecked machines strewn behind me!!) and have never had a problem but now I've just got new one and spent a small fortune(to me) on it I am reluctant to do it and have now built up a rather large pile of worn bras and have been wearing this last one for ages a wee while and I had my hair (on my head) cut in it so it's a bit furry and am dithering...

What would you do??

Depends in the bra.

M&S ones, no problem.

Mimi Holiday / Agent Provocateur / Myla? Not a bloody chance! They're probably worth more than the machine!

Depends on the bra. Bloody autocorrect.

Mine go in the washing machine but not in the tumble drier.
I did buy one of those special bags to put them into the washing machine but my bras didn't fit so that was waste of money. I'm not sure why I don't put them in the tumble drier - probably to make me feel better for sticking them in the washing machine. No logic there at all.

I looked for those bags in John Lewis and they were laughably small.

Found a set of 3 bags, all large enough for my purposes :) for the princely sum of 99p the lot - Dunelm Mill.

I did until the wire came out and the whole thing needed replacing. £350 later and no, I'm washing them by hand.

Use a pillowcase, I've had to call someone out twice to retrieve my f cup wires, it was a bit embarrassing the second time.

Yes and they're fine. Life is too short for handwashing!!

I do either on a 30 degree hand wash function or a 30 degree 15minute quick wash and its never caused a problem.

I have always machine washed bras. Have been stabbed in the side by escaped wires a few times and have once blocked the washing machine. Unblocked it with the help of my dad and the internet so didn't cost anything.

Washing machines have instruction books??!

How come, with all the various special programmes and features they have on them now, there's not a bra cycle?

Yes I always wash all my bras in the machine. Most are underwired. I don't put them in tumble dryer though. I couldn't be bothered hand washing them and they wouldn't feel as clean then either

No because an escaped wire can damage a washing machine beyond the point of repair.

Nooooooo!
Bras should be hand washed after every other wear. I take mine in the shower with me and give them a good rinse there. Otherwise you can damage the machine and your bras.

I've always machine washed bras and Ive only once had an underwire stick out of a bra - never had one come out. Maybe it's because I don't buy cheap bras (they never come in D cup and above)?

We have a bra wire which has been lodging in our machine for about ...ooh ...18months. Sometimes we can pick up Sky TV on it

It rattled a bit at first, but seems to have disappeared into the nether reasons of the washer now. No harm done to anything at all. In fact I forgot it was there until I read this! Not that I advise it though.

However, I have better things to do than hand wash a bra (unless really expensive, but I don't own any like that). So I keep intending to wash them in a pillowcase but always foget. I am never sure handwashing cleans things properly, and I bet they put it on non-wired bras too. I can accept it on an underwired bra buton very little else

I worked in the clothing industry for 10 years. Anything that says handwash usually (but not always-there are exceptions, ) means that the retailer won't pay enough to have them wash tested properly, so get out of any legal redress by putting absolute minimum wash care advice

Always machine wash.
In my 30 yrs of under wired-bra wearing I haven't handwashed. But last year when the wire wore through the underside of my new Bravissimo bra I rang them and they said you should HAND WASH only. I said I've never handwashed and this has never happened etc, they said they won't replace as it wasnt a faulty bra but out of good will they did replace it.
I do find wires poking out at the side or up the front sometimes, just sew them back in, but I've gone from a E to J in recent years so they are under a particularly lot of strain
I've never knowingly knackered a washing machine however

yes I do, but the wire ones only in a pillow cover with zip to avoid that embarassing moment when the repairmen shows the wire to you that has blocked the drum

I do it all the time. I wash my underwired bras in a padded wash bag that protect the bra as well as washing machine. I got it from amazon and here is the link -

www.amazon.co.uk/Russel-Padded-Separates-Protects-Delicates/dp/B002ZO5K8Q/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1340179870&sr=8-2

Machine washing shortens the life of the bra. Mine aren't hugely expensive, but I reckon every week I wash about £150-worth.

Don't handwash any more though - as someone else said, I'm never convinced handwashed things are properly clean.

I've got a zipped bag which also protects from colours running, so you could put a red bra in with a white wash and vice versa. Can't remember where I bought it.

use the delicates setting? the spin wont be as vicious on that setting

also put in a pillowcase or hosiery bag

Yes machine
Yes bag thing (although only for the last 3 years or so)
Never damaged machine or bra

I always hadwash. My bras are expensive. I have in the past and the wires came out.

Putting them in a pillow case - what a simple solution. Why didn't I think of that before. Thank you

Before I had a smirking washing machine engineer pull a wire out of my machine, I would have said no.

Now I would say no, but tie them into a pillowcase first! The worst bit was, I had been wearing the bra but hadnt noticed that one of my tits was bouncing off my knee :o

Oh and I was HH cup then too, how the effing jeff did I not notice?!