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What is the best way to hand-wash a delicate t-shirt?

I've gor an Evie t-shirt that I love. It's printed upon with some sort of rubber tuff that's on most t-shirts. Everyime I wash one of these kinds of t-shirt it starts peeling and the black on it fades. Please help! By the way, I am ACTUALLY going to pick a best answer for this one! (ten points)

Public Comments

1. with your hands very delicately.............seriously though try putting it in the sink with water and woolite and letting it soak don't use hot water, just warm and rinse in cold.
2. go here... http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-hand-wash-your-laundry
3. 1) DELICATELY! 2) READ the 'label', and wash accordingly! 3) NO LABEL??? FIND a similar item, and, AGAIN, WASH according to the LABEL instructions!!! Bill (10 points please!!!) HA ! HA! HA!
4. Put some cold/cool water in a bucket and add either some very mild detergent or a wool washing detergent and soak your shirt for a little while. Either squeeze it thru the suds or gently swish it around like as if in a washing machine. Rinse in plain water or you can put a couple of tablespoons of white vinegar in with the rinse. Put it inside a mesh laundry bag and gently spin enough to get the bulk of water out and spread to dry inside out over something to avoid overstretching in the shade, this should minimise damage
5. The hot water melts this rubber stuff, I suspect. Also, if it is too small for you, your body is stretching the rubber, which splits. I have a Paul McCartney one and my chest stretches his face a bit and people say HEY, I SEE PAUL HAS THE MUMPS! I handwash all my clothes, to make them last, and drip dry them and do no ironing at all. I never buy dry clean only and never buy anything that has to be ironed. I have had these kinds of t shirts and some of them still look ok after they have started disintegrating on the pic or slogans. I can't stand seeing women in clothes with pilling on, or lint from other clothes, sticking to their tracksuits etc. I got a little shaver thing to get the pilling off woollen clothes, and I got addicted to it and carried it in my handbag and if someone I knew stopped to speak to me, I would de-pill them while chatting. I worked in an office at the time and in my lunch hour I would depill all the staff's jumpers while they were wearing them. I bought a blue tartan jacket 20 years ago at a home party plan night, and wear it all through winter over tshirts and wash it fortnightly, and it has never faded, the zip has never stuck, and it looks as new as the day I bought it. I have met two other women wearing the same garment and stopped to chat and they say the same. You can be lucky! I hope someone comes up with some solution for you.