Friday, October 12, 2012

How To Maintain Your White Shirts Bright

By Dale Smith


I love my white shirts. In fact white is my favorite color. Pristine, pure, calming and in vogue any day, white is the best color to go out either on a sunny day or a cold winter morning. The color just spreads a cheer rarely seen in other colors.

Needless to say I gained a lot of white clothes. Ties, coats, pants, shirts, even white footwear for instance. While I love wearing a white shirt every now and then, there's one small issue that typically besets the outings. Basically, not a small issue, it's quite a major one. Keeping white shirts is a task. Regardless how watchful I'm about not letting anything spill touch or keep a mark in it, white shirt has a way with getting unclean. And getting them back to squeaky clean state is close to impossible. Well almost.

It's difficult to maintain a white shirts appearing as neat and bright as they were when you bought them. White color is like a dust magnet, especially in our dirty cities. The color seems to display stains and signs of usage faster than any other color light or dark. The frequent issues entail greying of the glow, discoloring at the sides, or perhaps complete loss of shine over the fabric. All of which leave the shirt useless forever.

If white shirts are your wardrobe troublemakers, it's time to equip with ammunition to take care of them. People say the most vital thing to do when cleaning whites is to separate them with the colored ones. Does that generally help though? I've lost so many white outfits when cleaning them with other white ones, because the shades don't match and the white color spreads. Filling the washer with a whitener helps, but then that leave spots of clean white on a normally yellowed out piece of white shirts. This is definitely worse compared to an unclean white shirt isn't it?

Collars are the most difficult areas in white shirts. Sweat induced stains are the toughest, and no matter how clean and dirt free one remains throughout the day, these sweat stains never leave you or your shirt alone. Scrubbing them nonstop only worsens matters through bobbing out the entire collar up. Getting a new one makes more sense in such times.

Whites are hence also the most costly in clothes when it comes to colors. Manufacturing one, and maintaining it in a store too takes great care. Be it in the shop or at home in the wardrobes, white clothes are always a challenge to handle. Yet their allure never diminishes. The sparkling starched white shirt is a classic fashion statement that never goes out of fashion. Any season, any reason, white is always in when it comes to good dressing. Summers when it is the dustiest and the sweatiest, is also when whites are the best to wear. They reflect the heat off you and also keep you stylish when colors are otherwise too bright to wear. Some cultures also give white a stature of godliness due to its purity and spotlessness. Keeping these whites as spotless however is not an easy task.




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