[interbaoui]

i have been told that it is a serious crime to wash hakamas in a washing machine! it appears no-one else takes this attitude- good oh, that will save the huge mount of time it takes me to hand wash mine, and i will refer anyone else that tells me it is bad to one of you guys. But before i was made to see the wickedness of my ways, i did put my hakama in the washing machine once and found that the hardish flat bit(sorry, i dont know the name) when kind of soft and soggy. it is probably because it is a cheaphakama and i have a sneaking suspicion that inside the material it is made of cardboard. i may be wrong, but i dont think that it does it much good wetting it then drying it again in a washing machine. when i hand wash it, i try to keep it dry
anyway, if anyone else has this prob, how do they fix it? let it rot or what? imay of course be on the complete wrong track and it was soft for some other reason, not becaus i washed it.
please help
alicia
ps what is the smurf song?
pps what looks like blue tak, smells like blue tak, feels like blue tak and tastes like blue tak?
smurf poo