F*&%#$ Dry Cleaners!

[Sanguis Mortuum]

I don't see why there would ever be any need to take a shirt to the cleaners unless you're too lazy to iron it yourself. Just throw them in the washing machine on a low temperature, they'll be fine.

 

[fwiffo]

Originally Posted by elegantgentleman

Most of the $.99 or $1.99 per shirt places put shirts on an automatic press which does a terrible job (at least for the average SFer's standards).

I got a shirt back once where there were ironing mistakes all over (I thought they use a dummy or some machine). They even ironed a 45 degree crease mark in my double barrel cuff. How you can actually hand that back to the client I have no idea.

Originally Posted by StopPolloition

Sometimes clothes even come back with burn marks on them from poor pressing practices.

Burn marks - yikes.

I also had a shirt that is normally a nightmare to iron but I needed something for the plane - and asked them to fold it. I swear there were more wrinkles than when I sent it in dirty.

And the best was when I gave a shirt I got from B&S and they chipped a front button on a coloured shirt (turquoise with dark turquoise buttons). They gave me a "free repair" with a button that didn't match any of the other ones. I love my free repairs.

 

[SkinnyGoomba]

I wash mine myself, saves the headache. One of the drycleaners around me does hand pressing but its about $4-5/shirt, which is not cost effective for me when wearing 7 shirts a week.

If I had the cleaners take care of them I would need twice the shirt rotation if not more.

 

[SirSuturesALot]

My worry with dry cleaners is that most of them don't seem to understand how to properly press a suit.

 

[StopPolloition]

My lapels typically come back very flattened. Sometimes I can fix this by rolling a section of towel under the lapel and gently steaming the mega crease out so it rolls again.

 

[Sander]

Wear OCBDs and don't iron them.

 

[teddieriley]

Originally Posted by Svenn

i literally once told a dry cleaner to her very face twice to take out the collar stays in my $100 shirt... she promptly gave it back to me the next day with massive ironing imprints of collar stays in the fabric. that's the kind of idiocy you're dealing with.

thankfully the lemon + peroxide solution followed by a few machine washings got it out.

idiocy uh? she must be thinking the same thing. you're a big boy, take out the collar stays yourself. with hundreds of customers, she is not going to remember to do something you should have done in the first place.

 

[SkinnyGoomba]

Originally Posted by Svenn

i literally once told a dry cleaner to her very face twice to take out the collar stays in my $100 shirt... she promptly gave it back to me the next day with massive ironing imprints of collar stays in the fabric. that's the kind of idiocy you're dealing with.

thankfully the lemon + peroxide solution followed by a few machine washings got it out.

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[bearsfan172]

So two questions:

What do you guys do with your suits? Because you have to dry clean those....

And what about black shirts...cleaning in water makes them fade...

 

[SkinnyGoomba]

I dont wear black shirts.

Suits are kept through brushing and steam pressing. Dry cleaning once a season or when needed at one of the better cleaners in town is a good plan.

 

[lasbar]

Originally Posted by SkinnyGoomba

I dont wear black shirts.

Suits are kept through brushing and steam pressing. Dry cleaning once a season or when needed at one of the better cleaners in town is a good plan.

I agree with you Skinny ...Have you read the article about Huntsman's cleaning service?

It is basically steaming pressing and a lot of hard work...

No chemicals involved...

 

[Svenn]

Originally Posted by teddieriley

idiocy uh? she must be thinking the same thing. you're a big boy, take out the collar stays yourself. with hundreds of customers, she is not going to remember to do something you should have done in the first place.

They were sewed in dumbass, and she assured me repeatedly they had the tools to get them out, even writing on a piece of paper right next to them 'take out collar stays.' try thinking a little next time you wanna proclaim your intelligence

 

[RSS]

I have my dress shirts laundered and ironed by hand.

Post #6: I'd remove my own stays if sending out.

Poster #27: Perhaps you should consider buying -- or having shirts made -- with removable stays.

 

[SkinnyGoomba]

Originally Posted by lasbar

I agree with you Skinny ...Have you read the article about Huntsman's cleaning service?

It is basically steaming pressing and a lot of hard work...

No chemicals involved...

I'll have to check that out.

I need a soft bristle brush for hand washing collars any recommendations?

 

[StopPolloition]

Originally Posted by Svenn

They were sewed in dumbass, and she assured me repeatedly they had the tools to get them out, even writing on a piece of paper right next to them 'take out collar stays.' try thinking a little next time you wanna proclaim your intelligence

So was she supposed to cut the collar open, wash, put them back in, then resew them in? I'm lost here.