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January 16, 2006
I enjoy doing laundry.
I like it so much that I am going to send a piece about my enjoyment of doing laundry to McSweeney's as soon as they get around to rejecting the two things they're sitting on already. This is not that piece. However, I do have something important to say about laundry here.
I wash colors with whites. I wash everything with everything. I have never had any clothing disasters due to this.
I also usually dry everything, even stuff marked "line dry," at inferno-hot laundromat temperatures. So far, I have not died.
But is my clothing's quality being degraded in some way?
Today begins THE CLOTHING CHALLENGE.
Two shirts from H&M, both requesting "line drying," identical except for color, will be treated in two different ways.
Shirt A will be washed and dried according to standard Tony procedure, violating the tag's request.
Shirt B will not be dried in the machine, but hung up after the wash cycle, still wet, as per its manufacturer's desires.
I will compare the shirts after a number of weeks and report whether Shirt A is noticeably worse-off than Shirt B.
Perhaps I will even involve girls in the mix, asking them to judge (under strictest double-blind conditions) which shirt was subjected to the abuse of a dryer, and which was not.
If even GIRLS can't tell the difference, I am going to dry everything in dryers for the rest of my life, including my own body.
On the other hand, if the shirt I put in the dryer disintegrates into a cobwebby vestige of clothing, I vow to become a full-fledged metrosexual, or POSSIBLY straight-up gay.
Stay tuned.
Posted by tony at January 16, 2006 04:22 PM
Comments
I was about to write a laundry blog-story myself about the perils of drying polyester on high heat. (Your clothes will M-E-L-T!) Can we do a crossover-blog post about laundry like when Law and Order and Homicide used to combine forces? 'Cause I think my story will nicely compliment whatever it is that is going to happen to Shirt A.
Posted by: Liz at January 18, 2006 04:21 PM
I suspect the H&M stuff is not supposed to be machine dried because it is so poorly constructed. I occasionally put my cheap H&M stuf fin the dryer by mistake, many hems have come un-done. Good luck.
Posted by: Maddy at January 18, 2006 08:07 PM
I would like to offer my laundry for you to do.
I like doing laundry although never jave the time...but if you LOVE laundry you can start doing mine tonight.
Also, I concur with Maddy...H&M places the line dry on their tags do the clothes last a week longer. I like to call it trendy construction. They build them to last as long as the trend will last.
Posted by: Amanda at January 26, 2006 11:19 AM
I just read my comment and I sound like an idiot.
But you can still do my laundry.
Posted by: Amanda at February 6, 2006 06:08 PM
Tony doesn't love me! If Tony loved me he would update this laundry story. Furthermore, Tony certainlly doesn' tlove me because I know he has abandoned this laundry "experiment."
How could you?
Tony doesn't love us, guys. That's just the truth. No matter what his URL tells us.
Waaa!
Posted by: Madalyn at February 14, 2006 12:20 PM
seriously, madalyn. I am with you. it is freaking february, already.
Posted by: party time at February 17, 2006 03:54 PM
