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07-02-2006, 08:00 AM
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I have heavy cotton hakama and I contacted the place I bought them from and he told me that it was ok to put in the washer, just make sure it is on cold, set the dye first and not with anyting else.
I went to a laundramat and put the hakama in one of those front loading washers without the adjitators. I just put it in folded with my gi. It worked great. When it came out I hung them up while we were finishing the rest of the laundry and when we were ready to go I folded the hakama up following the pleats. Amazingly enough, the washer didn't destroy or take out the pleats. I folded them up in a lg black beach towel and brought them home. After getting home, I opened them up but made sure that I pinched the pleats and kept them laying flat. I just made sure that I flipped them over several times while they were drying to make sure that both sides were dry. So far so good. -Koori |
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07-03-2006, 08:00 AM
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My gi is white so I use a moderate bleach and a small amount of detergent, I need to get that blue cross on the back of my gi
 hakama? I use washing machine, surprisingly after 3 years the pleats are still there. |
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07-04-2006, 08:00 AM
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Hmm. I was actually a little surprised to hear that people have a hard time getting the dye off of themselves after practice. I just take a bar of soap and it comes right off my skin. Can't say the same for when the dye gets on other things though. I tried ironing my hakama at home once and my mom started yelling at me and when I looked at the iron, the white plastic had blue marks all over it. With some hot water I was able to get most of it off but you can still see some of it there (most likely because of the poreous properties of plastic). For those of you who wash your keikogi and hakama by hand, do you just fill a tub with cold water, add some mild detergent (if any), scrub it, rinse it, and hang dry it?
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07-26-2006, 08:00 AM
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08-14-2006, 08:00 AM
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The one time I had my hakama dry-cleaned, the idiots pressed the pleats in the wrong places. Anyway, it looks like you've managed to avert some unpleasant scenes at the dry-cleaner's. 
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09-28-2006, 08:00 AM
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interesting fact: the blue seems to come off your skin onto clothes, telephones, walls(there are handprints everywhere at my place) but when you actually try to de-blue yourself, it takes half an hour of contortionist acts in the shower and a lot of scrubbing.
i have nothing against being blue, i just think of it as advertisement for kendo, or a novel tan, but i dont enjoy everything else i own turning blue. has anyone got any experience as to what washes off the dye from other things? just soap and water doesnt seem to work. |
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10-04-2006, 08:00 AM
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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.  Little late for that I guess.Me, I paid alot of money for my hakama... Ill be damned if I am going to stick it in a machine. |
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