fabric softener?

[Esotamoc]

Who uses fabric softener? does it make a difference? is it bad for your fencing gear? this is probably the most important question asked on this forum.

[Sarah]

Um, I don't know... I use dryer sheets, and those are nice.

[HillBilly]

Who uses fabric softener? does it make a difference? is it bad for your fencing gear? this is probably the most important question asked on this forum.

pssh me mum does me washing.

[Portela]

pssh me mum does me washing.

yep, same here

[Army Fencer]

Who uses fabric softener? does it make a difference? is it bad for your fencing gear? this is probably the most important question asked on this forum.

I air dry my fencing stuff, but fabric softener does wonders for my clothes!

[Zilverzmurfen]

Indeed a question of great magnitude.

All I can say is when washing clothes or kit (or when having persuaded someone else to do your washing for you... ) use a softener and air dry. Your clothes will thank you!

[davtsung]

Fabric softner does really little to ballistic cloth, but I do add just a drip of essence of lavender in my wash cause I'm sensitive like that

[cornflower]

pssh me mum does me washing.

Eeeeew! I've got tons of stuff that I don't want other people touching. I'm sort of paranoid about that, so I ALWAYS do my own laundry. Plus, if my mum sees the kind of underwear I have, she'll tease me!

[HillBilly]

Eeeeew! I've got tons of stuff that I don't want other people touching. I'm sort of paranoid about that, so I ALWAYS do my own laundry. Plus, if my mum sees the kind of underwear I have, she'll tease me!

.. ... .... ...... ...... ....... ........ ......... .......... um. well cornflower... since I'm a guy, we odn't have that problem Boxers or Briefs, Briefs or Boxers. I'm a Boxers man. Me mum don't tease me...

[Inquartata]

Bah, you foilists and epeeists and your "sensitive" skins! Pansies! Real fencers don't care about fripperies! Fabric softeners, indeed!

[Zelda]

I am a foilist and I dont use fabric softener - cant see the point!

[The Mormegil]

Eeeeew! I've got tons of stuff that I don't want other people touching. I'm sort of paranoid about that, so I ALWAYS do my own laundry. Plus, if my mum sees the kind of underwear I have, she'll tease me!

so what kind of "underwear" do you have?

[Zelda]

*wanders around sweeping up various minds which have decended into the gutter.* *mumble I really should get paid for this.....*

[cornflower]

It's not necessarily the kind of clothes that I have that would make me do my own laundry. I'm just really OCD about my laundry. I can't stand the thought of other people touching my clothes or whatever. If it was my parents... then it'd be sorta OK, but other people? Noooooooo. I wouldn't even take my clothes to a professional cleaners... I would only if I had to... and if it was a dry-cleaners only.

[Saber-Psycho]

*wanders around sweeping up various minds which have decended into the gutter.* *mumble I really should get paid for this.....*

You'd be a rich woman.

[HillBilly]

You'd be a rich woman.

"It's a living"

[Schiavona]

Bah, you foilists and epeeists and your "sensitive" skins! Pansies! Real fencers don't care about fripperies! Fabric softeners, indeed!

Gee Inq, are you sick or something? You just passed up a perfectly good oportunity to comment on how epeests don't wash their gear.

[duel mom]

I use Calgon water softener. It takes the minerals out of the water which can darken your whites. And it leaves the clothes soft but not perfumed.

[richard]

when you buy pants from GAP or DOCKERS that are stain free, the
staff tells you to dry them without fabric softeners.

I think that the stuff that they put in these stain free pants that make
water unabsorbed is the same kind that make the fencing jackets more
slippery.

Good for epeeists that get hit on the arms a lot. The blades just slide
instead of being absorbed.

[Inquartata]

I am a foilist and I dont use fabric softener - cant see the point!

Then how do you parry it?

But seriously ( as the sober goat advised ), you, Zelda, are, as we all know, exceptional. Therefore, I excuse you from my sweeping generalization.