Why a good dry cleaner is your best friend
Befriending a good dry cleaner can be the best investment you make in looking good and looking after your clothes.
Your clothes are an investment, and a good dry cleaner can ensure you do not waste that investment. While you may eschew the dry clean only tag many clothes recommend dry cleaning due to the fabric.
The care instructions of your clothes can recommend dry cleaning for a variety of reasons, often it is because the fibres in the fabric do not respond well to getting waterlogged. Clothes made with viscose in particular generally should be dry cleaned. Dry cleaning is a process that uses a solvent that contains little or no water, which is why fabric care labels often recommended it.
Good dry cleaners use products that reduce the harm to the environment and importantly they also use less water than you do when you wash your clothes at home.
Dry cleaning is a safe way to preserve your precious investment pieces. Not all dry cleaners are the same though. A common expeirence is the infusion of a terrible chemical smell in clothes that have been dry cleaned. There are many horror stories of disasters with dry cleaners ruining faux fur pieces or overheating wool so the fibres are effectively burned. The cost of dry cleaning can also be an issue. These can all be reasons for actively avoiding dry cleaners.
Luckily being based in Canberra in the ACT there is no need for avoidance of dry cleaners because of Garran Dry Cleaners Valets for Fussy Folks who are based at the Garran shops. The quality of their service definitely makes going to Garran to use them worth it. No more chemically smelling clothes and no more disasters!
The care Julie and Robert owners of Garran Dry Cleaners take of your clothese will see them last much longer than would otherwise be the case. Julie is also very upfront about what they can and cannot do, which is something to appreciate. They also take care to ensure that the process does not damage any embellishments on the clothes. They are a great partner in keeping treasured clothes pristine.
