Question: How to take care of your white clothes?

April 10th, 2008 • Related • Filed Under

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F21 Scoopneck top - Forever 21

We have a question from a reader:

Was wondering if you know any tips on how to take care of your white clothes? I just stained mine! OMG! It was a favorite dress of mine. It is not like washed with coloured, but just yellowish stain. So sad…
-Shwueey-

Our opinion:

One method I have always sworn by is not bleaching my whites. But rather, soak them in cold water and detergent, rinsed and hang them in the heat away from the sun. The reason for not bleaching is because white is actually a color just like any other color and apparently has same number of tone variations like green. Pure cotton is actually a light dirty brown color. And if you don’t hang the whites under the sun , the white colour will not be the yellowish white you see, but a clean pure white. My mother thinks I am crazy, but some friends of mine even go as far as drying their whites in the bathroom totally protected from the sun in order to keep it from turning yellow.

Love, Yetmee

 

Any other ideas on how to take care of your white clothes?

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  1. Comment by Cherylmeryl on 10 April 2008:

    Agreed. No bleaching.
    When dry it under the sun, flip the shirt up=side down,
    it works not only white shirt, but any other colored shirt.

    Try Vanish O2, pink works~~

  2. Comment by mashpotatomato on 12 April 2008:

    cool insight. shall try it with my whites =)

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