Dry cleaning tailored clothes made in natural fabrics, does not do them good. On the contrary, it can be highly damaging and actually reduce the life of tailored garments. Any natural cloth contains natural oils and lanolin which give the material all its desirable qualities; shine, softness, drape, durability, stretch and so forth. All that dry-cleaning really achieves is to strip cloth of all this natural goodness and oils. Think of it another way; wool (in simple terms) is the hair of a sheep, and dry cleaning fluid is made from a combination of very aggressive chemicals which essentially bleach the cloth. You wouldn't go bleaching the goodness from your own hair now would you?
Having made this clear, please do not misunderstand me. Dry cleaners provide a great service, so please do continue to use them - but when you do, ask for the suit to be either sponge cleaned, or spot-cleaned and pressed. Both these treatments mean much the same thing - a sponge clean is when the suit is very lightly brushed down with damp sponges to naturally remove stains and freshen up the cloth, and a spot clean is simply when a cleaner will go through the suit with a keen eye and clean only those tiny parts of it which are actually dirty.
What follows then is the pressing, which in itself is a very skillful process. Its not so simple a job as ironing out creases because pressing can actually alter the shape and fit (for better or worse) of the suit, and a skilled presser will actually press a suit with the wearer's body shape in mind when a suit is constructed for a client for the first time. These principles apply every time a tailored garment is pressed. In a good dry-cleaners - when you get your off-the-peg clothes pressed, the dry cleaner's use their specialised knowledge to freshen and crisp up the suit and remove creases, without damaging its internal structure - and that level of care is worth its weight in gold if you want your tailored clothes to last.
An image from the Anderson & Sheppard Blog, of a suit being properly pressed for a client.
A final note here, I'd suggest using a professional dry-cleaners for maintaining your off-the-peg clothes (and I can vouch for how invaluable the service is - my dry cleaner's is great!) but its also worth remembering that every bespoke tailor offers an aftercare service, and will know how best to look after and maintain the clothes they make for their customers.
<a href="www.americacleaner.com”> america cleaners</a> Dry cleaning is any cleaning process for clothing and textiles using a chemical solvent other than water,The solvent used is typically tetrachloroethylene which the industry calls "perc".
ReplyDeleteDespite its name, dry cleaning is not dry. It involves the use of liquid chemicals, and solvents. These remove most stains from a variety of fabrics, but are extremely toxic to the operator and patron. Most dry cleaners use perc as their primary solvent. Because the clothes are cleaned in this liquid solution made primarily of perc or some other hazardous solvent along with very little water if any. The term dry cleaning is used to describe the process.
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