Washing school ties

Pearlstar

Could you sort of hand wash it and keep the clip out of the water?

Spendless

Pearlstar wrote: »

Could you sort of hand wash it and keep the clip out of the water?

no. The knotted part ie the opposite side of the clip, is where it gets the grubbiest.

CupOfChai

Is it that the clip's actually broken, or they come unglued and off? If the latter, I'd not want to machine wash them in case the clip comes off and gets into the machine and breaks it, but when it comes away could you just superglue it back on?

Stupid clip ties. We had proper ties, which also meant we all learnt how to tie one, then we knew how to do it if work/social convention/fashion dictated we wear one!

Spendless

It becomes unglued though it doesn't actually become off, it then isn't secure round the knotted part of the tie, which is then on the verge of untangling and the actual clip bit- the bit that looks like a hairslide in the image I posted earlier then doesn't align up. The one I handwashed this morning has now dried and it def cleaned up but at he expense of 'breaking' the clip!

tyllwyd

I had to clean up my daughter's baseball cap this morning, and couldn't wash it so I cleaned it with baby wipes and it came up quite well - maybe try something like that, or sponging it clean without getting the whole thing wet?

onlyroz

I had my tie for seven years and I think it was rarely washed. But I think a scrub on the draining board with a bit of washing-up liquid was the best it ever got.

I see the point about clip-on ties being more uniform - because about 99% of my school-mates did up their tie with only the tiniest part of the narrow end on display and the rest shoved away inside their shirt. Looked ridiculous and used to drive the more anal teachers potty.

Morglin

Spendless wrote: »

Following on from the school blazer thread, tomorrow I have to go and kit my youngest out with the parts of the uniform only available from the school, one of which is the school tie.

I looked to see how many we already have (it's 4:eek:- I already have an older child at the school) and was thinking of just buying 1 new tie or maybe 2, so each child has a new one and just cleaning up the rest as spares. They don't tend to last a whole academic year as they are clip on ones and the clip often snaps. As they are clip on ones, they are already tied, and I really don't have a clue how to go about washing them . I could afford to put one in the washing machine and see how it fares since we have so many, but thought I'd ask here first.

The ties are red in colour with a black and white diagonal stripe running through.

I used to roll up my kid's ties, in a tied sock, and just put them through the machine (40 degrees).

Came up like new.

Lin

themull1

I've never washed a school tie in my life, and my tie wasn't washed either, it didnt get dirty!!

squiggles

Morglin wrote: »

I used to roll up my kid's ties, in a tied sock, and just put them through the machine (40 degrees).

Came up like new.

Lin

I was just going to suggest this.

As for the clip, is there not something on the lines of a hair clip or those clips that are on the end of false hair strands in the likes of Claire's accessories that could be sewn on somehow. Ahh but saying that it may well be cheaper to just purchase the new tie. I wonder if haberdashery shops have a sew on replacement clip.

Will keep on thinking.

Spendless

themull1 wrote: »

I've never washed a school tie in my life, and my tie wasn't washed either, it didnt get dirty!!

It's not dirty as in stained more grubby, from the link I gave you can see there's a white stripe running through it. With it being a clip on it's handled more at the knot by putting on and pulling off than a conventional tie would be and as such, marks and sweat transfer from the hand.

I asked my friends as suggested and they've all had no problems machine washing the tie! No idea where I'm going wrong, if one can get wrecked by a hand wash. I will try the putting in a tied sock method though, as an extra precaution.