Chances are the first time you ever shrunk a piece of clothing it was accidental. Perhaps you assumed a cotton dress would be fine in the warm-wash load of laundry along with the rest of your socks and towels. However, when the cycle ended, your dress was closer to a shirt than anything else. It happens.

But were we to intentionally take matters into our own hands, we’re still unclear on what the real deal is when it comes to DIY shrinking. With our questions in mind, we turned directly to Adam Vanunu, founder of Cotton Citizen, to tell us what we—total amateurs, let’s face it—need to know about shrinking clothes.

“All fabrics can shrink,” Vanunu tells us off the bat, “and because there’s no exact percentage or measurement of shrinkage labelled, as a manufacturer, you find processes of working with fabrics to minimise or avoid shrinkage by the time a final product gets to a customer.” Of course, he’s referring to his own line of It-girl-loved basics, but some pieces are more prone to shrinkage the others. For instance, he says a mass economy retailer brand of T-shirts might “shrink a full size at minimum after a home wash.”

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