Waxing Jackets

[Mick Mac]

I bought a raincoat that was waxed and after a trip to the dry cleaners its not waxed anymore, it now lets in the rain gradually whereas it did not before.

Has anyone tried to rewax a jacket or paid to have it done? What wax product should be used? Thanks.

Its not a Barbour.

[david_carnell]

I rewax my Barbour once or twice a year. You can buy their wax online or in good outdoor shops. Other wax is available.

It doesn't take long and is quite therapeutic. Heat the wax gently until a liquid and then rub in with vigour. Hang to dry or use Mrs Mac's hairdryer to speed things up.

[Mick Mac]

Thanks David - presumably the wax is non coloured. I'll check the Barbour shop at lunchtime.

[KidKruger]

Just don't stand next to anyone on the train who's got a decent suit on, the wax marks other people's clothes !

[numbers]

Sorry Mick Mac but I think if you've already had the jacket dry-cleaned then buying wax won't work. Dry cleaning seriously damages the waterproofing oils and they cannot be reproofed after that in my experience.

[El Pibe]

"Just don't stand next to anyone on the train who's got a decent suit on"

Are you suggesting tht it will actually improve a shiny Next suit?

[KidKruger]

EP, ha !

No, you cheeky chap, but i would suggest a pecking order whereby if you're gonna screw-up someone's hard-earned suit with your greasy coat then choose a cheap suit to inflict it on !!

Wax coats can't improve ANY suit or other clothing by being rubbed against them. That's why they're country wear, where you aren't cramped on a train but are wading through a gorse bush.

[Ted Max]

Hmm, someone in a cheap suit probably only has the one or two. Has done their best to buy that suit, needs to have the suit. Can't afford to replace it.

Someone in an expensive suit has had the readies to drop a bundle on something a bit more expensive in the first place, and could therefore more easily replace it.

So I think Mick Mac should be frotting the made to measures on the 7:51, not the squeezed middle strivers.

[Mick Mac]

numbers Wrote:

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> Sorry Mick Mac but I think if you've already had

> the jacket dry-cleaned then buying wax won't work.

> Dry cleaning seriously damages the waterproofing

> oils and they cannot be reproofed after that in my

> experience.

I'm not sure its officially a wax coat. It just had that feel (that it doesn't have now) and rain sat on it rather than sinking into it. I'm puzzled, so am off to the shop I bought it in to ask before I do anything stupid and ruin it.

Thanks for help.

[KidKruger]

I did consider that angle Ted, however (and probably unfairly) I think a decent suit deserves more protection than a cheap crappy suit - that somehow, it's more 'worthy'.

[El Pibe]

the intrinsic aesthetic value rather than the associated one about class, privilege etc huh?

"Just because the best tailoring you've ever seen is above your fucking appendix!"

[????]

There are threads of a satorial nature (SWIDT?) which I take great pleasure in anticipating the input of Mr Carnell. This was one.... he didn't let me down

[Mick Mac]

SWIDT...? no

[Alan Medic]

Mick Mac Wrote:

I'm

> puzzled, so am off to the shop I bought it in to

> ask before I do anything stupid and ruin it.

>

You're a bit late for that aren't you?

[david_carnell]

???? Wrote:

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> There are threads of a satorial nature (SWIDT?)

> which I take great pleasure in anticipating the

> input of Mr Carnell. This was one.... he didn't

> let me down

Glad to be of service. Next week - how to buller those parade ground boots and how to remove a chutney stain from your mustard cords.

[Mick Mac]

Ok, to conclude.....it's not a cotton coat so I don't think I can wax it. It's polyester.....so I reckon it had a spray on protection and have bought from Cotswold a spray protection. Have done the deed tonight, hoping it's restored to its original cond...will find out in the morning. Thanks all.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

'Spray on, spray off' just doesn't have quite the right ring to it.

[Mick Mac]

I know. And it is just not the same now. Bloody dry cleaners.

[david_carnell]

Polyester? Oh dear.

Don't speak to me again.

[Mick Mac]

>Polyester? Oh dear.

>Don't speak to me again.

I know - I should have done my research before jumping in. I'm sure its very good quality polyester :)

I do think now that it must have been waxed as the spray thing has not given it the same waxy feel it had before.

[seemster]

Can't you get some kind of compensation from the dry cleaners?

Or try this http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?9,1087832

[Mick Mac]

Thanks but my coat is Boggi not Barbour. I don't like Barbour.

[Jeremy]

If it's polyester, couldn't you have just stuck it in the washing machine?

[Mick Mac]

Haha...no, it said "do not wash in water", strange instructions I know, but I only read these after it came back from the cleaners.

Anyway, even I'm getting bored now.

[????]

I am not. I am eagerly awaiting Mick's "I hot washed my cashmere sweater and it's shrunk' thread" next week