Mimosa09

 

 

Ah, I see your problem. So far I have been happy with TravelSmith, but there is always a first time. (Maybe that is why my jeans no longer fit! - lol) I have also bought dress slacks, like Ponte knits, from Coldwater Creek and have washed and machine-dryed them numerous times with no problems. Have you ever tried them?

 

I live in Spokane & have a number of clothing items from Coldwater Creek (Sandpoint, ID is less than 2 hrs away). Wonderful clothes! :) I also love Chico clothes. In fact, my hubby in his effort to be helpful has shrunk an $85 pair of Chico jeans in the dryer for me! :eek:

 

I have learned over the years (just celebrated my 61st birthday) that most capri, pants, slacks shrink in length - especially in the waist to crotch area. Wish they would shrink in the width instead since I suffer from gaposis at the waist in the back. :rolleyes: I got tired of experimenting & shrinking my pants, slacks, jeans & capris and just focused on getting something that fits my weird body shape. Then wash in cold & "hang/lay flat to dry". Less expensive & frustrating.

 

Anyway, the "bottoms" (pants, capris, slacks, jeans) are just one type of item to be laundered. The rest of the items & hubby's stuff should be ok to send. I'll just think some more on how to work out my pants problem. What's really weird is none of my shorts do this. I think it's because shorts are more "generous" in the waist to crotch area? :confused:

 

-Rose

At the risk of sounding simplistic, I think I would pack slacks that could go into a dryer. I don't travel with anything else. I, also, will confirm that HAL's laundry does a wonderful job.

 

 

And I thought I found them :). Bought some capris through Travelsmith, wash cold and put in dryer (like the label said I could) AND.....:mad: same old problem, they shrunk an inch in the very area that affects the fit for me (waist to crotch). Travelsmith has a very good return/exchange policy, thank goodness! If I wash any of my pants cold and "hang to dry/lay flat to dry", I can keep my pants fitting me. After all these years I still haven't found any dressy casual, casual or jeans I can put in the dryer. Sigh... I'm sure the ship's laundry isn't going to bring my capris back to the room wet for me to hang in the closet :o like I sometimes do on Princess ships.

 

-Rose

Geez! I'm going to be on the Noordam for 25 days in 2014, and con't believe there's no self service laundry facilities on the ship.I hate the idea of trusting my clothes to the ship's laundry.

As it is, I am Elite on Princess, can get my laundry done free, and I choose to launder everything myself in the self service laundry so I get to choose the detergent, water temp and dryer temp.

Guess I am going to be forced to pack a lot more than I planned to!!

I too am spoiled by Princess on doing my own (choosing the temperature, detergent & whether to "hang to dry" to prevent shrinkage). I see some of you would rather have the ship do it and are pleased with the results. How do you work with your wardrobe & ship laundry to make this happen? I do not own pants that I can wash & then dry in a dryer. Right now we have made "almost" B2B reservations for Jan '14. The hotel stay in btx will include us doing some laundry, but I'm open for ideas. Thanks!

-Rose