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Strange rings on husbands work shirts

polyd
9 years ago

My husband showed me one of his work shirts yesterday- it had ring around the collar- but the color was rusty? There was also staining on the cuffs, and in patches on other areas- where the shirt wrinkles, the stains were absent. Almost as if the shirt was wrinkled and someone sprayed a rust colored substance on it, the unwrinkeld it.

I checked his other shirts- same ring around the collar, but a rusty color. I soaked them i biz and washed as usual and they came up mostly clean- apart from the initial shirt which looks the same as before.

I'm baffled. He's never gotten that color of sweat stains before. He wears an undershirt, and the other areas were not places one would sweat- forearm, etc.

I haven't changed detergents or water. But I did recently start starching his shirts. But I don't know if I had gotten them all in the rotation to be starched and ironed. Maybe his sweat is reacting with something?

Any tips for getting it out?

thanks