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Old 07-14-2012, 09:26 PM   #1
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Looking for recommendations from fellow CP'ers on a good place to get a suit drycleaned.

Looking for an affordable place that won't ruin or wear away my suit.

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Old 07-14-2012, 11:03 PM   #2
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The dry cleaners in Mackenzie towne do a fine job.
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Looking for recommendations from fellow CP'ers on a good place to get a suit drycleaned.

Looking for an affordable place that won't ruin or wear away my suit.

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So; did you just move out of your parent's house and/or get a nice suit for the first time?
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Old 07-15-2012, 01:40 AM   #4
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pretty much any half competant dry cleaners can deal with a suit, just find a local place run by an older chinese couple and you'll do fine.
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Old 07-15-2012, 02:43 PM   #6
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Don't dry clean your suit super often, and at that try to just dry clean the pants and steam the jacket. That was your jacket will keep its shape longer.
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Any damn dry-cleaners in the city.
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Old 07-15-2012, 07:31 PM   #8
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Thanks for the replies.

Yes I still live with the parents.

I am more concerned about keeping the shape of my suit and not wreaking it.

Since most of the CP members make over $100k / yr and have plenty of suits, I thought there'd be plenty of specific suggestions of places that do a great job

Just kidding.
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Old 07-15-2012, 08:55 PM   #9
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Tower Cleaners always works for me. They can get you your stuff back the same day if need be. I just pick the one closest to my house or office, depending how I feel.

Avoid Busy B Cleaners on 4th St SW like the plague. They wrote my last name in a black sharpie on my shirts and ruined them. They said they needed to in order to identify them. I've been to 25-30 different dry cleaners/shirt launderers, and not once have I ever had a shirt lost and not one other company has needed to write on my shirts.

As for timing of dry cleaning, unlike shirts, jeans, socks, etc. which need to be washed each time you wear them, suits should not be cleaned as often. As long as you wear underwear, and wear an individual suit once a week, you could probably only dry clean the pants once a month. Depending on how much you wear your suit jacket, you likely don't need anything more than getting it pressed 1-4 times a year. If all you do is wear your jacket from your car to the office and vice versa, an annual press is fine. If you wear it throughout the day, then you dry clean it when you spill on it. If you manage to keep your lunch off of it, then just get it pressed once a quarter.

For shirts, I prefer to have mine laundered, without starch and put on hangers.
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