[Pypeassesty]

Washer yes, detergent no. A simple rinse cycle should help. Mine goes in the washer 2 times a week or more.

[M1iFiNmC]

I do use detergent, but in a very minute amount. Make sure the detergent has no bleach in it. Don't put any other clothes in the washer together with the gi. I know some other people use Woolite.

[GuitarLoverBe]

Woolite Dark Laundry Fabric Wash and a dash of borax, cold water, hang dry.

Hakama - dry clean and pressed

[SashaLionx]

I wash mine with my old jeans, helps make the jeans blue again. lol.
I use a normal detergent in a normal amount. I wash every other time I wear it and only use cold water. Then I dry it on a large hanger actually meant for a kimono so the sleeves are laid out straight. I keep it inside.
I wouldn't machine wash low quality ones though.

[PWRichard]

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.

[ycMC0PLg]

Hi also a newbie...

Does washing both gi and hakama in washingmachine help with the fading of the dye when wearing them? I am frequently coming away from practice looking like a smurf and it takes a good scrubbing to get the dye off. I have already set the dye with vinegar when I first got them. Do I need to re-set the dye?

Thanks for your help

-Koori

[T1ivuQGS]

Washing them in a washing machine, only after first setting the dye, is fine. However, be aware that even after setting, there will be some bleed. My good, order made keikogi will still turn white socks blue if I accidentally leave one in the washer. So wash alone or only with things you don't mind having a blue tint.

[sanddrareyk]

Thanks Kendomushi,
I was hoping that would work. I am ok with some bleeding but not as dark as I am having now.

Thanks for your help.

-Koori

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I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
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[gusecrync]

Most welcome

[AlbrtJhnsqw]

Try a COLD wash with a couple of handfuls of dishwasher salt (simulates a lot of sweating ;-)

hakama are best done in a bath - i tack stich the crease points before washing, hang it to drain and dry & you can hand smooth the creases back in - looks like new

I found this works well & reduces smurfism :-) (sadly i now have the smurf song running around in my head)

phil..

[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

[catermos]

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 am embarrassed to say I forgot what it is called too. I think its the koshi shita... Anyways some hakamas do have cardboard in there. Mostly older ones that is. Also I am not sure, but I believe other than kendo & naginata that back part of other hakamas are either soft or made of card board. I dont know of any way of repairing it, I only know that hand washing it will prolong the life of your hakama. 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.

[ionitiesk]

Hmm, something strange has happened... I decided to soak my keikogi and hakama in vinegar last night since everyone kept saying the dye must be set! And when i rubbed my hands over it, they also turned blue slightly. Thing is, when I woke this morning, the water hadn't changed colour at all...

I checked last night, it's an indigo dyed keikogi from e-bogu - http://www.e-bogu.com/ketaunkkdbln03.html
The hakama was seikon dye, but I wasn't sure what that was and chucked it in the bucket anyways...

Why didn't it bleed? Is it now nice and acidic for nought?

[worldofwarcraft]

Why didn't it bleed? Is it now nice and acidic for nought?

I'm afraid so. As I have stated here All this "setting the dye" is hogwash, in my humble opinion.

Unless someone has bought 3 identical indigo-dyed gi's, and soaked one each in salt, vinegar and plain water, and compared the resultant "dye-setting," I'm not gonna waste my time and energy soaking my gi in anything. Salt water at least doesn't stink. Vinegar, on the other hand... well, you've found it out for yourself.

Some say that salt water mimcks the sweat, which again allegedly sets the dye. Well, in that case, I say just practice more and sweat harder! What's wrong with being blue all over at the end of the practice? Just be girl and buy a shower puff. It takes the dye right off your skin

[xT0U3UGh]

Hi everyone,

I got my new keikogi and hakama last week . The guy who owns the store gave very explicit wash and care instructions that seem to be working so far:
For the keikogi: 1) Dissolve a handful of salt in cold water. Leave keikogi in the salt water for several hours (this will fix the dye). 2) Rinse the keikogi in several changes of cold water to remove the salt, and in you can leave the keikogi in the final change of water for several hours to make sure all the salt is gone. 3) Wash in gentle cold cycle on the machine. 4) Dry in the shade.
For the hakama: Dry-clean only. (Yeah, I know.)
No smell, no dye running and very little shrinkage. We measured the seams before and after washing and overall the keikogi shrank by 0.5cm all over.

Hope this helps,
Angie

[DenisLevvin]

For the hakama: Dry-clean only. (Yeah, I know.)

Do yourself a favour and ignore this advice. The one time I had my hakama dry-cleaned, the idiots pressed the pleats in the wrong places. If you have a tetron hakama, wash it gentle cycle cold and hang to dry with a pants press, arranging and smoothing the pleats. Good to go, no ironing required. If you have cotton, wash in the tub if you're extra-cautious, then arrange carefully in the dryer and spin the excess water out. Hang again, arranging the pleats, then iron while still slightly damp. You can also wash cotton in the machine, but you should add a stitch or two to each pleat to make sure you can find them again to iron them in.

[encumeterz]

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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[RarensussyRen]

The one time I had my hakama dry-cleaned, the idiots pressed the pleats in the wrong places.

Thanks for the heads-up, Neil! I did raise an eyebrow when the seller said I should dry-clean my hakama but he assured me that they were used to pleats from doing netball skirts. Hmmmm ....

Anyway, it looks like you've managed to avert some unpleasant scenes at the dry-cleaner's.

[Wdlglivi]

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.