Let's commiserate each other about things we have shrunk

[paddleboardingmum]

I managed to shrink and destroy a beloved scarf today.

My favourite pjyma trousers ( which I’m currently wearing!)

I chuck everything on at 40. Never shrunk anything.

Some lovely dark grey perfecting fitting trousers from a boutique in kensington. Cost £££ and they looked fab. Shrank 1st wash and looked like leggins after. This was in 1992 and i am still upset about that.

A £200 new cashmere ivory jumper I'd worn twice. Forgot it was wool and threw it in a 40 wash. It came out looking like a felt babygrow.

A €300 jumper I bought my husband 20 years ago, still have no idea how it ended up in a bundle of cottons on a 40 degree wash, honestly we both died laughing it looked so ridiculous to

Omg that’s exactly what it was like, a v thick felt baby jumper with not a bit of stretch 🤣

Oh no to all these. Damn. My scarf was like felt too and about a quarter of the size. It's hard when it's something you love. I'd forgotten but once I got an amazing jumper from TK Maxx (Farhi) and I loved it, it was perfect. Shrunk that too eventually.

I'm so sorry I can't share.. triggered and just too sad. It was a very soft, perfectly fitting and, given my height, perfect length jumper.
I'm used to the hopeful stretching but you just know when it's still tough when you pull

Jumpers and linen when I was younger and blissfully unaware of the fabric and temperature rules. Tough lesson not to be repeated.

I must have accidentally shrunk everything because it's all so tight 😳

M&S wide leg jersey cargo trousers, now flapping around my ankles. Luckily I bought a longer length pair too, which shrunk to floor length

Lochmere 100% cashmere jumper I had only worn once. Even though it was an accident. Just writing this down hurts my heart.

Toast cashmere mix dress . I stupidly didn’t look at the washing instructions , it still fits but I loved it before now it’s a bit meh.

I accidentally chucked my lovely Navy Grey crew neck wool jumper in a normal 40 wash as well. Came out tiny and felted.

To add insult to injury I tried to unfelt it using conditioner, but only ended up wasting a fucktonne of nice conditioner as well as it didn’t do a thing!

I got a lovely blue secondhand merino&cashmere Margaret Howell jumper on Vinted for only about £40. I loved it so much, I love her clothes but rarely can afford to buy even secondhand. I wore it only a couple of times then somehow it ended up in the wrong wash and then tumble dryer. It had shrunk so much in my clothes grief I tried to make 7yo ds wear it, even though it was ridiculously even too small for him. He was like, I don't want it, it's itchy. And I was, it's got cashmere in it it can't be itchy, it's beautiful😐😂

John Lewis cashmere jumper. I thought it was my blue cotton sweatshirt. It would suit a dwarf now.

I pondered googling is there anything that can be done for a shrunken cashmere jumper, but in my heart I knew there was not.

So much cashmere ruined! commiserations. I love trying to get ds to wear it @staryellow 😂

I had a bog standard wool jumper from arket or cos. It was just a good basic jumper. It would have been such great value had I not shrunk it.

Countless falke and chup wool socks.

I won last year though. I shrunk a beloved toast cardigan. Soaked it in conditioner and blocked it. It's very wearable now and a better colour actually. I now block my socks after each wash!

I knitted a very beautiful and complicated matinée jacket in three ply wool for PFB. My DSis put it in the washer and reduced it to doll’s clothes for a very small doll…

Lots of my DH's socks which I then have to wear as they no longer fit him. Still haven't grasped how to avoid them shrinking at 40 degrees.

A lambswool jumper that was my XXL DH's

It's mine now 🤣

A lovely wool cardy with wooden buttons came out felted. Still sad about that. It was the perfect slouchy fit for wearing round the house in winter.

My ex's mother shrunk a zipped wool hoody which cost me £100 in 2003 so you can imagine how gutted I was. I was a student and I couldn't afford to replace it. I couldn't really afford to buy it in the first place but I wore it constantly. It was thick and stretchy and perfect. I'm still annoyed about it, actually! I would love a replacement but never seen one.

My Bella Freud jumper. I’d only worn it once and it somehow ended up in the drier. £350 down the drain 😩

A beautiful Sezane Emile cardigan made of alpaca wool that had cost €125 and had been worn precisely twice.

It looked comically ridiculous when it came out.

Ive been lucky, but my mum was a holy terror. My dad had a gorgeous hand knitted fairisle jumper (which I "borrowed") Let's say I had the best dressed teddy in town. Then I made a lovely wool crepe unstructured blazer, was perfect. Until mum chucked it in a hot wash...