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Simplify Your Clothing Care:
Don't dry clean your clothing more often than it requires!
Don't dry clean your clothing more often than it requires!
Here's something that your local dry cleaner won't tell you: Dry cleaning is very hard on your clothing! While nobody advocates wearing dirty clothes, any reputable clothiers will advise you, as their customer, to minimize the launderings and dry cleaning cycles of fine garments. 
Unless you value the "washed out" look in your suits, you probably want the fabric to maintain the beautiful texture and color that caused you to purchase the garment in the first place.
Unless you value the "washed out" look in your suits, you probably want the fabric to maintain the beautiful texture and color that caused you to purchase the garment in the first place.
So don't trust your corner cleaners when they say that most customers dry clean their garments after every wearing; or that dry cleaning is the most gentle way and actually extends the life of fabrics. Their self-motivation is understandable. But it will result in your spending hundreds of dollars more per year on dry cleaning, cleaning that isn't needed. And those unneeded cleaning cycles will put many pounds of perchloroethylene ("Perc") into the environment needlessly.
Martha Stewart herself says that you can safely and easily hand wash most garments labeled "dry clean only". Read her recent article here and learn how you can save money plus be greener to our environment. There are also options to dry clean at home.
Garments can be kept fresh using a steamer to steam clothes between cleanings. On the website garmentcare.info, Linda Nelson gives a dozen helpful tips to make your clothing look better and last longer.
Here's an easy way to keep track of when your garment was cleaned last, and how many times it has been worn since.
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