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Shrinking clothes, silly question maybe

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Littlemoocow · 29/06/2014 08:16

I guess I already know the answer to this,but is there any way to shrink clothes apart from a hot wash and tumble dry? I always seem to shrink jeans in the wash when I don't want to, but I have a pair which are always perfect straight from the wash, but stretch far too much when they've been worn. I've tried a hot wash and tumble dry but they don't seem to shrink at all.
Is the stretching thing a problem with modern "stretch material jeans"? I've also bought a pair of trousers from Vera modo recently, which aren't really jeans, but are cotton with 2% elastane and these are the same after a couple of hours, baggy knees, thighs and bum. I'm getting more and more frustrated with it tbh.

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upupupandaway · 29/06/2014 21:07

Most jeans have elastane in them nowadays . Not a good idea to tumble dry them as it will perish the stretchy material. Nothing you can do really, clothes are not made to last forever . Clothes are relatively cheap compared to say twenty plus years ago, but much comfier. I don't know if you can still but "traditional" jeans, I always hated the way they felt s restricting.

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