How quick do cotton "wrinkle free" dry

In my experience, "wrinkle free clothing doesn't dry any faster at all then the same material without the "wrinkle free" treatment. In addition to drying time, cotton "stretches and gives" as you wear it and gets saggy. They won't look right again when air dried. I've never found anything that fixes that other then drying them in a dryer.

Hmmm....I live in Europe and along with the rest of my neighbors, I don't have a dryer. So it sounds like "wrinkle free" is not the way to go.

NO, I didn't mean to say that!

"COTTON" is not the way to go!

The newer synthetics are awesome, they don't lose their shape and dry easily overnight. They breath well, resemble cotton in appearance and even feel. Look at Columbia and Deluth Traving for shirts, and some of the newer Dockers or American Crew slacks. For starters you can look at golf wear, they are often made of rayon or other similar synthetic material.

All the shirts and slacks I travel with are both "wrinkle free" and "stain resistant", it's the best way to go. But Brad on this forum has taught many of us that packing a "cotton free" bag is far and away the best way to travel!

Thanks Roy. I have been searching on the internet for "wrinkle free" "quick dry" shirts and pants and there is not much to choose from. Do you have the names of what you would recommend?

Travelsmith

Travelsmith

The stuff is everywhere. You just haven't been looking in the right places. My favorite travel pants came from Sam's Club -- Outerrim. REI has a travel line - Adventure Travel or something like that. Second favorite pants and two shirts are from REI. Dillards even has a travel line. Cotton should be avoided.

http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/set?id=1440268

Here's a whole pack list based on no cotton. You can click on an item and see where to shop for it.

I think the t-shirts on this list are poly/cotton blend. The ones I actually bought are no cotton but I liked the color displayed so I linked it instead.

Thank you! I went on line and did a lot of research.

There seems to be excellent deals at exofficio.com as well as Jcpenny.com and sierratradingpost.com for the 4th of July. I just order some no cotton wrinkle free clothes from these three sources. If you are in need of some new travel clothes I would suggest heading over to one of these places. By the way, you can find additional coupons on the internet for these places. I saved a great deal of money shopping at these three websites than if I had shopped at magellans or travelsmith.

A few weeks ago at the Costco store, I found some Tommy Hilfiger "travel khakis" (i.e. not cotton) that were very lightweight and inexpensive. I've also recently bought several synthetic polo-style golf shirts from Target that I really like.

Frank, can you tell me how long ago you found the slacks at Sams? I went to three here in town last night and none of them had any "non-cotton" slacks at all. Any help or thoughts would be great!

Jonathan
I can't testify to how long the LLBean wrinkle resistant shirts take to dry after handwashing, but will say that they are truly wrinkle resistant. I took one of these on a recent trip to New York and it came out of the suitcase looking sharp and did not need any ironing. The shirt is very high quality.

Natural fibres are perhaps somewhat slower to dry. I generally try to stock my travel wardrobe with blends for that reason. I always wear natural fibres on board the Aircraft for safety reasons regarding flammability.
there are some "wrinkle free" products that aren't too bad such as the ones mentioned above. A 30z bottle of wrinkle releaser of homemixed fabric softener and water is good, too. A quick pass over with an iron isn't that much trouble. most Hotels have irons in your room, anyway.

I find it helps to speed the drying time somewhat by wringing out the garment in a microfibre towel roll before habging to dry. I've even used the hotel's hairdryer on occaision.

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I was just going to suggest you try a test run of drying time at home. That way you'll have a rough idea as to how it will preform.

I. too, have found some descent travel clothes at Costco and Mark's Work Warehouse.

Don't forget, travel tends to age clothes quickly. especially if you are handwashing frequently for repeated wearings Vs normal wear rotation at home.

We found that cotten, in general, did not dry overnite during our trip to Europe in June.

We packed mostly cotton for our trip to Italy. Even when we didn't hang things up until after 9:00 at night, most things were dry in the morning. My husband's shirt collars were damp, sometimes the socks weren't completely dry. Yes, everything was slightly wrinkled and very stiff. After 5 minutes in the Italian sun the wrinkly, stiff, damp stuff, was just fine.