How can I take best care of my Doré Doré socks?

This Boulevard Doré website offers you a great selection of the finest quality socks. But, as you'd expect, great quality requires great care. So you need to ensure to look after your new socks with each and every wash. And, whether it is to protect the fibres, the texture or the colours, it’s essential to always look after your socks properly. That way, you'll keep them looking great and make them last for as long as possible.

This blog therefore offers you some handy tips about how best to take care of your Doré Doré purchases.

Cotton lisle thread, cotton, linen & merino wool

We highly recommend hand washing your Doré Doré socks for best results. Alternatively, you can machine wash them in cold water or at 30° selecting a spin cycle of no more than 500 revolutions per minute. Any faster and there's a chance that your socks will shrink. Normal or inside out? Washing inside out is the better option to best protect and conserve your sock’s fibres. We also strongly advise against putting your socks in the tumble dryer or ironing them to avoid misshaping them. For this reason, flat drying is the best solution.

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Check out our beautiful merino wool socks 

Fleece & cashmere wool

The same general tips apply for our other types of socks. However, for socks made from fleece and cashmere, we recommend being extra vigilant about setting the correct washing machine temperature and not over-spinning your socks so that they maintain their softness and size.

If you normally prefer to wash clothes in very hot or boiling water, please be advised that this method is particularly harmful for your socks, especially for the wool fibres. In addition, due to their delicate nature, they require additional care, therefore avoid dry cleaning them.

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Please see or range of cashmere socks

General tips

If you choose to wash your socks in your washing machine, do not fold them into one another. By doing this, the elastic at the top will stretch and get damaged.

If you want to avoid being cursed by the frustrating mystery of the missing sock, we advise using a net laundry bag. This is a great way to keep your socks together when they are in the machine. Apart from making sure you don't lose one, this technique is excellent for preserving the cotton thread

So, now that you are armed with all the knowledge you need to take care of your socks, how about a little shopping?

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Doré Doré, one of France’s most celebrated hosiery bands, has been creating and manufacturing high-end socks and tights for over two hundred years. Boulevard Doré offers a great selection, but please get in touch if you can’t find what you’re looking for, and we will help as best we can