| Sweat damage to metallic lycra? [message #273465] |
Tue, 18 November 2014 15:04  |
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Originally posted by: <nati2469
The only possibility I could think of was that I wore it at HeroesCon,
and sweated like crazy in the Charlotte humidity, and didn't clean it
after (I am unfortunately terribly lazy about cleaning cotumes). It's
not too big a deal to replace the damaged sections, as the non-metallic
body is still fine (and the gloves needed a little resizing anyway) -
but I'd like to figure out what I did to it so I can avoid it again
This is the palm of one of the gloves - some of the gold layer has
rubbed off, but it's gradual
http://i.imgur.com/6Lhc1Tt.jpg
This is the main part of a sleeve, against a non-damaged portion - the
gold has totally vanished like something stripped it off
http://i.imgur.com/Zm3V5ow.jpg
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| Re: Sweat damage to metallic lycra? [message #273466 is a reply to message #273465] |
Wed, 19 November 2014 20:23  |
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Originally posted by: Godiva Smutnick
nati2469@aol.com wrote:
>
>
> I have a classic green-and-gold Jean Grey Phoenix costume that I made
> back at the beginning of the year that I had worn to maybe three events.
> I pulled it out for a photoshoot with a friend over the summer and
> discovered that something super-weird had happened to the metallic gold
> - the gold layer appeared to have 'flaked' away - except that there
> weren't little gold flakes on anything, it was like the gold coating had
> just broken down and disappeared. I'm pretty sure it's not friction,
> because there's some friction damage on the palms and fingers of the
> gloves from handling stuff, and it looks totally different - and the
> gold is missing on like, most of the arm portions.
>
> The only possibility I could think of was that I wore it at HeroesCon,
> and sweated like crazy in the Charlotte humidity, and didn't clean it
> after (I am unfortunately terribly lazy about cleaning cotumes). It's
> not too big a deal to replace the damaged sections, as the non-metallic
> body is still fine (and the gloves needed a little resizing anyway) -
> but I'd like to figure out what I did to it so I can avoid it again
>
> This is the palm of one of the gloves - some of the gold layer has
> rubbed off, but it's gradual
> http://i.imgur.com/6Lhc1Tt.jpg
>
> This is the main part of a sleeve, against a non-damaged portion - the
> gold has totally vanished like something stripped it off
> http://i.imgur.com/Zm3V5ow.jpg
Yes it's very likely your body sweat affected those areas.
however it the metallic aspects will bleed out eventually. That's the problem
with metallic lame lycra. The very element that makes you want to use it is
unstable. It happens sooner for some depending on their body chemistry
DO NOT machine wash your suit. It will accelerate the bleeding out of the
metallic fibers. hand wash it instead and that will pro-long things
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