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Originally Posted by taco.vidal
Did you get a wool suit or slacks dry cleaned?
Or did you get some "dress" shirts drycleaned?
Not everything at the drycleaners is dry cleaned. Shirts are laundered. Thats means theyre put in big industrials washers in hot water and then into industrial dryers and then pressed.
True drycleaning wont shrink your clothes. In fact, its destructive to fabrics (even the expensive gentle hyped kinds) and would make your clothes looser fitting.)
My guess... either you had a cotton shirt shrink in the laundry, which the cleaner wont be responsible for, or they shrunk something that should have been dry cleaned and they threw it in the wash and it shrunk.
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Cotton shirts should never shrink even if laundered, unless they are washed in extremely hot water. I have 100% cotton shirts laundered at the cleaners all the time, never a problem.
If however, the fabric was something that was delicate and should not be laundered, such as rayon, silk, wool, then it will shrink. Those type of fabrics have to be drycleaned.
If they have been laundered by mistake, any honorable dry cleaner would reimburse you for that.
Since I have used the same drycleaner for years, they put the last letter of my name on the fabric tag, in felt pen, and then they know those items can be laundered. No felt pen initial, they are drycleaned.