A fair number of threads on Style Forum involve fine garments bought at a physical or online thrift or consignment store.
Typically, the questions involve issues of fair price, fit, construction, tailoring, etc. What I have noticed is that very few threads involve issues of condition.
So I was curious how SFers handle the cleaning and restoration of those garments, given the fact that many of these garments will surely exhibit symptoms of poor care.... heavy creasing, musty/dank odor, perspiration odor, cigarette/cigar odor, soot stains, rust stains, water and beverage stains, perspiration stains (underarms), yellowed lining, dingy outer fabric, unravelling seams at underarms and vents, distorted interfacing in collar and cuffs, etc.
Do you attempt to "restore" the garment yourself? Drop it off at your local dry cleaner? Send it to a restoration dry cleaner? What results do you experience?
To give you a sense of what I mean by "cleaning and restoration", consider this example of an Oxxford Clothes silk sport coat I completed last week......
(Sorry, my link has AGAIN been "blocked" by Style Forum's new software. Please click on the www.ravefabricare.com link below and enter "the cleaning and restoration of an Oxxford Clothes sport coat" in the search engine in the top right corner. Thanks. Stu.)
Edited by stubloom - 9/29/11 at 8:50am
Typically, the questions involve issues of fair price, fit, construction, tailoring, etc. What I have noticed is that very few threads involve issues of condition.
So I was curious how SFers handle the cleaning and restoration of those garments, given the fact that many of these garments will surely exhibit symptoms of poor care.... heavy creasing, musty/dank odor, perspiration odor, cigarette/cigar odor, soot stains, rust stains, water and beverage stains, perspiration stains (underarms), yellowed lining, dingy outer fabric, unravelling seams at underarms and vents, distorted interfacing in collar and cuffs, etc.
Do you attempt to "restore" the garment yourself? Drop it off at your local dry cleaner? Send it to a restoration dry cleaner? What results do you experience?
To give you a sense of what I mean by "cleaning and restoration", consider this example of an Oxxford Clothes silk sport coat I completed last week......
(Sorry, my link has AGAIN been "blocked" by Style Forum's new software. Please click on the www.ravefabricare.com link below and enter "the cleaning and restoration of an Oxxford Clothes sport coat" in the search engine in the top right corner. Thanks. Stu.)
Edited by stubloom - 9/29/11 at 8:50am
