Like white clothing turned pink, or the sweater that pills to infinity , clothes that shrink after a wash are one of our obsessions. And when it comes to our comfy sweater or the favorite of our child / nephew / grandson, it's the crisis. Do not panic ! We tell you how to enlarge your miniature sweater!

Why did my sweater shrink?

In fact, it is not the washing that is at the origin of the transformation of the sweater into a reduced model but rather the drying. When switching to a machine, the hot water relaxes the textile fibers ... which tighten (more than they have loosened) while drying. Anyway the question is there: can we bring ourselves to offer his favorite sweater, become immutable to his godchild? If not, we try at all costs to save him and restore him to his original form and sweetness .

How to save a sweater too small?

"No miracle solution alas, especially if it's a wool sweater. If it is cotton, the laundry can perhaps try a rescue. Whatever the case may be, the results are rarely 100% satisfactory ... " , explains Nicolas de Bronac, founder of Sequoia Pressing (sequoiapressing.fr). Without guarantee of result, we can still try everything for the whole ... thanks to the conditioner . The idea circulates on the Internet that by soaking a shrunken wool sweater in a bath of cold water with 2 tablespoon of conditioner, we can hope to save the sweater ... Info or intox? We tested and, surprise: the sweater has recovered a little flexibility and a size (relatively) suitable. In the while dipped on a hanger, did the weight of the water help to relax it? Hard to say. But as it is a black sweater, the flaws are sufficiently blurred to be able to wear it again.