How to Clean a Baseball Cap

Mardi 4 janvier 2011 2 04 /01 /Jan /2011 04:04

How to Clean a Baseball Cap

Many persons may have faced with this problem: how to clean up the caps that doesn’t damage its shape. Always the cap will lose its shape or shrink due to improper cleaning, even those high quality New Era caps. People would wear a dirty hat rather than the deformed one. Following these tips, you may have some ideas in mind of cleaning an exquisite hat.

Some preventive actions you may look out, for example, you’d better keep your caps away from the dirt and stains if possible. But maybe it’s inevitable during the sports, try to spray some Scotch Guard beforehand, or there’s an alternative choice: wear a Hat Saver which can help to prevent the cap from ruining by dirt and dust. Although it just solve the temporary problem, but also can actually extend the lifetime of your caps.

Before washing the caps, you should know well of the caps’ material, and you’d better follow the manufacturer’s cleaning guide. Most baseball caps such as the New Era hats are made from cotton or polyester both can withstand washing well. You should specially pay attention to those wool hats, it’s really good at keep warm of our head, but when in wet or hot water, it would shrink.

Next, you should check that the color fastness of the hats. When you couldn’t make sure whether it would fade away on washing, take a look at the cap’s inner rim. If the cloth color doesn’t fade when you rub with cool water, you can take it easy to wash it. Many people have used alcohol or hairspray to clean the stain in housework, but it’s said that these chemical substances in them would damage the cloth and create more stains in the hats.

Before you wash the caps, try to use a brush remove some loose dust in the cap. Many baseball caps manufactures like New Era hats, have shaped plastic bills instead of cardboard which make them proper cared during washing. One good way to ensure hats keep shape is to use a plastic cage which avoids the washer’s agitating force. What you should also aware is that take the similar color clothes together with the hat in the washing machine.

For some old caps, for example, some limited edition New Era hats, we should pay more attention. They couldn’t bear washing machines or dishwashers as the new one. What you should do first is test the color fastness, and then fills it in the water with some spray. Scrub gently with a soft brush, rinse it with clean water. At last hang it out in the ambient air.