iron_ball
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My beloved Zegna sport coat is in utmost peril! Okay, so it's Zegna "High Performance" and it was a thrift store score, but it's still the best thing I've got, and now it stands with mere CENTIMETERS between life and death.
In specific, it picked up a spot of grease from an ill-advised late-night gyro, right on the lapel. I started with a spray of Shout and a good rinse, and it just turned the spot into a smudge. Then I took it to my dry cleaner, and they just turned the smudge into a faded smudge. Still visible in the right light, which makes the coat pretty much useless for projecting the debonair man-about-town image I try so hard to project (because I'm a try-hard, you see).
My dry cleaner said they could try using "stronger chemicals," but it could leave a light spot on the fabric. I'd said I'd mull it over. Does anyone have a recommendation for a specialist cleaner of last resort? Or should I just hand it back over to my well-intentioned but unexceptional Chinese laundry and tell them to go for broke?
PS: I also have a Faconnable shirt in dire straits: I spilled OJ on it, forgot about it, the juice dried invisible since the shirt is a vibrant pink puppytooth anyway, and then I IRONED IT. Bright orange-brown stain, probably permanent: check.
In specific, it picked up a spot of grease from an ill-advised late-night gyro, right on the lapel. I started with a spray of Shout and a good rinse, and it just turned the spot into a smudge. Then I took it to my dry cleaner, and they just turned the smudge into a faded smudge. Still visible in the right light, which makes the coat pretty much useless for projecting the debonair man-about-town image I try so hard to project (because I'm a try-hard, you see).
My dry cleaner said they could try using "stronger chemicals," but it could leave a light spot on the fabric. I'd said I'd mull it over. Does anyone have a recommendation for a specialist cleaner of last resort? Or should I just hand it back over to my well-intentioned but unexceptional Chinese laundry and tell them to go for broke?
PS: I also have a Faconnable shirt in dire straits: I spilled OJ on it, forgot about it, the juice dried invisible since the shirt is a vibrant pink puppytooth anyway, and then I IRONED IT. Bright orange-brown stain, probably permanent: check.