This is now one of my favorite shirts! I can wear it to work with a cardigan or in the dead of summer in Florida and stay cool. No really, it’s so light weight and loose so it doesn’t show the sweat running down my back. It was my choice for LegoLand in August.**I wash and dry this shirt with all my other clothes and it has held up just fine. I didn't even realize it says to hand wash. But even if I had read that... I still would have thrown it in the washing machine. And dryer. And an iron has never touched it because who has the time for that either?!?