Taking Your Clothes to Dry Cleaners?

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On my way to work every morning, I pass by this shop and notice the prices weren't as expensive as I thought. Plus since it's winter, I've been rocking this leather jacket every day and i cant just toss it in a regular washer without effing it up. Seriously thinking about going there tommorrow.

Anybody take regular items there like shirts and Jean's? I was thinking, unless it's some designer type stuff that cost thousands, a couple washes might exceed the actual value to the point you mine caswell purchase a new garment. The only super expensive shirt I got is this button up Versace that kind of looks like the one Diddy rocked in the Hypnotize video. And I got some Robin Jean's that I had traded in some Trues for. But probably 50% of my stuff comes from 2nd hand Sto's like Plato's Closet, Goodwill and Salvation Army. It's cheap but a lot of stuff is vintage and probably will be hard to find in the future.

Anybody use Dry Cleaners?
 
only for expensive wools or wools which are difficult to wash. I would try a wash n fold that isn't in a dry cleaning spot for cotton/cotton blends, dry cleaners tend to use lots of chemicals. finding sum1 who thinks you're good looking or charming enough to wash stuff at their place is an option too.
 
I use the dry cleaners all the time. For dress shirts, I only take lights colors. I’ve found that taking dark colors get faded real fast with their press. Been using my spot for 16 years. Also have my jerseys cleaned here as well. Never any issues.
 
Take my work shirts there basically because when i wash and hang dry them they tend to get raggedy and then I have to iron them....so due to pure laziness i dry clean my work shirts.

Most are just regular J Crew Button downs. Nothing fancy. Everything else i own i just wash in cold water and hang dry if it is delicate or i don't want it to shrink
 
My local Asian guy charges $5.50 for each shirt and 6 for each pant to get dry cleaned . He also has a 3 day turn around .
 
As the son of a dry cleaner, like 80% of my stuff growing up was dry cleaned. Never realized how expensive it got until I lived on my own.
 
mlkfan said:
On my way to work every morning, I pass by this shop and notice the prices weren't as expensive as I thought. Plus since it's winter, I've been rocking this leather jacket every day and i cant just toss it in a regular washer without effing it up. Seriously thinking about going there tommorrow.

Anybody take regular items there like shirts and Jean's? I was thinking, unless it's some designer type stuff that cost thousands, a couple washes might exceed the actual value to the point you mine caswell purchase a new garment. The only super expensive shirt I got is this button up Versace that kind of looks like the one Diddy rocked in the Hypnotize video. And I got some Robin Jean's that I had traded in some Trues for. But probably 50% of my stuff comes from 2nd hand Sto's like Plato's Closet, Goodwill and Salvation Army. It's cheap but a lot of stuff is vintage and probably will be hard to find in the future.

Anybody use Dry Cleaners?
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you want to take your leather jacket to a leather specialist. the dry cleaners might do it but there are better places.
round my way "the shoe hospital" takes in all leather items like jackets and whatnot and cleans and conditions them. most shoe cobblers are well equipped to care for a leather jacket as they specialize in dealing with all types of leather and suede.
 
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Dress shirts/suits are the only things I get dry cleaned, and it’s only 3-4x a year. I work at home so it’s only really for special occasions like weddings
 
I only used dry cleaners for items that I can't easily wash or maintain at home. Wool pants and suits, silk items, down jackets, etc.

One of my old bosses would take every colored shirt he owns to the dry cleaners. I'm like "those are just regular cotton shirts that you can wash at home easily. All you have to do is read the care instructions". Anyways, it's his money to burn but I always thought it was weird.

I also think people send clothes to the dry cleaners because they'll usually press items for you and people don't want to iron clothes themselves
 
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