Can You Machine Wash A Barbour Jacket

Barbours fabled hunting jackets come with a list of Do Nots thats literally stitched into the inside from washing with soap or hot water to tossing it in the washing machine to dry cleaning.

Can you machine wash a barbour jacket. Avoid using hot water any kind of soap and NEVER put the jacket in the washing machine as this will remove the wax coating permanently and the jacket cannot be re-waxed. Just so can I wash a Barbour jacket. The only way to clean a wax jacket is to brush off.

Thats curious as you used to be able to send Barbours back for re-waxing so they must have. I purchased a light brown Barbour a few years ago and as you can imagine the colour shows any dirt that accumulates. You could ask a dry cleaner or the rewax people whether you can wash it first would the wax do un-fixable things to your washing machine though judith.

My Constance jacket is somewhat loose on me and I can either have it altered makes me very nervous and it will cost 100 at Burberry or 40 at Nordies. Freshening up a Barbour wax jacket. How do you clean a barbour jacket.

I realised the one I had only was filed with down and not feather so I just shoved it in the machine. Additional Facts About Wax Jackets. Can you share the info.

The only way to clean a wax jacket is to brush off. I need to wash mine but have no instructions. Or I can try washing it in delicate cycleor hand wash to see if it shrinks just a little bit.

Unfortunately This isnt the case. Avoid using hot water any kind of soap and NEVER put the jacket in the washing machine as this will remove the wax coating permanently and the jacket cannot be rewaxed. Id like to use it but I cant bear the dusty musty smell and although its hanging on the line now to see if the rain can work on it I would like to try wash it.