Most people treat studded clothing as dry-clean-only and hope for the best. That is unnecessary and, on garment-washed fleece, actively bad. Here is how metal on fabric actually behaves, and what to do about it.
Washing. Turn the piece inside out so the studs face the drum lining, put it in a laundry net, wash at 30 degrees with a mild detergent, and skip the fabric softener: it coats fibres and dulls the finish around the hardware. Never tumble dry. The heat is not the problem, the tumbling is: metal against a hot drum for forty minutes is the one thing that loosens a well-set stud.
Drying and storing. Lay flat or hang in the shade. Direct sun warms the brass faster than the fabric around it and can leave a faint mark on light colours. Fold with the studded face outward, or hang: never stack heavy items on top of a studded panel for months.
Ageing. Antique gold finish is meant to change. The high points of the knurling polish where they rub, the recesses stay dark, and after a year the contrast is stronger than the day it arrived. That is patina, not damage, and no, you should not polish it back: you would remove exactly the part that took a year to earn.
When something goes wrong. A stud that turns is not a stud that is failing; it usually just needs a quarter turn re-set. A stud that leaves is covered: every box ships with a spare, and we re-set lost hardware free, for the life of the garment, for every owner it will ever have.
Every stud fixed by hand through the fabric, with an internal washer. Cut, sewn and finished in our atelier.
No prints, no logos. The hardware is the only signature, stamped in gold-finish knurled metal.
A spare stud in every box. If you ever lose one, we re-set it free, forever.
