How to clean gloves, Advice please

[fedorabrown]

Hi, I have a just picked up pair of old long nylon gloves as a present for my partner.

The thing is they have an odour but appear to be clean otherwise to them and I'm wondering what the best thing is to clean and freshen them. I'm in the UK. I have thought about using febreze to freshen them up but not sure if it will damage the material.

The gloves are 100% 40 Denier Nylon and are made by pinkham (or is it pinklaw) gloves.


BTW: They did come with a cleaning tag as well from pinkham advising to use TIDE to clean them (what ever tide is or was), I don't want to go down that route has I will not have a size 7 hand to put the gloves on to shape them on afterwards.

Thanks.

 

[Hanne]

fedorabrown - this thread might help you out

 

[softgrey]

tide is a really common liquid laundry detergent...
so it seems that they must not be very delicate...
i would just soak them in some warm water with laundry detergent....
i don't think there will be any issue of reshaping...
just neatly arrange flat on a towel to dry...
nylon is a pretty sturdy material...
it's impervious to pretty much everything except direct sunlight...
which weakens the fibres, causing them to disintegrate and tear..




i am going to change the name of this thread...
i thought it was about rubber cleaning gloves...
not how to clean vintage gloves...
...