Eli5, Why can’t suits be washed in the washing machine?
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For the most part, suits are made of wool, which doesn’t wash very well. It’s not impossible, but just not the recommended way of cleaning wool.
Secondarily, when it comes to a men’s suit jacket, the shoulder pads are shaped and formed in a certain way, often using cotton, which would misshape and lose it’s form, especially if it was put into a traditional washing machine with an agitator in the middle.
Washing a suit wouldn’t necessarily ruin the material per se, but it would run the risk of shrinking the wool, and misshaping the cotton.
Dry or spot cleaning is the preferred method for these reasons.
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