Ruined Shirt :(

So a recent tragedy has taken a rather new piece of gear and tainted it. I had been hanging my rubber stuff in my closet to keep the wrinkles off and as I didn't have a great place to keep the burgeoning collection. This was a great way considering my setup, which has some water pipes overhead. With the spring thaw here, the pipes, which I had never had clothes under before in this time of year, started to have condensation which dripped down for probably the course of a day while I was at work.

This doesn't look that bad, but check out the next one...

See, major stain line...   :(

This basically ruined my shirt, but luckily, only my shirt. There are fun little brownish copper like stains that are on the arm and part of the collar. This was pretty devastating  and I knew that it was rare for something like stained latex to resume its color.


I took the next night to soak the shirt in some soap and water to see if any of the stain would wash or rub off. This sort of worked out, I mean, if you look at the picture below is looks about as bad, but under regular, non-flash conditions it looks way better.

Now the line on the back collar isn't as obvious, and the sleeve is a bit less obvious as well.

I am really surprised it did work out, and I hope that I don't screw up any more of my gear for the time being and have decided to store my latex in a nice storage bin to keep water out and manage the wrinkle-ness of the gear.