Business suit you can clean in the shower

Sep25

Business suit you can clean in the...

Posted at 8:15 AM • 10 Comments

A shower suit is a business suit you can clean in the shower and it’s all the rage in Japan. The
suit can be sprayed in a warm shower for three to four minutes and drip
dries within a few hours at room temperature. If hung properly, no
ironing is needed.

Konaka,
the Japanese company that sells the suit, has more than 300 stores and
is targeting job-hunting students and young business people who live
alone.

Talk about saving on a dry clean bill!. I rarely dry clean anymore. This may be just what a frugalista needs.

Would you trust a suit you can clean in the shower? Do you dry clean? Are you a washing machine queen? Is a shower clean suit frugal genius or just freaky? Dude in the picture is kinda stylin’!

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I don’t know about cleaning in the shower… Why can’t I just put it in the washing machine? That said, I try to buy clothes that don’t require dry cleaning because I think dry cleaning prices are crazy, I don’t like the idea of my clothes swirling around with random peoples’ clothes and dry cleaning doesn’t truly get your clothes clean.
I had a pair of ‘dry clean only’ pants for awhile and I got a stain that the dry cleaner couldn’t get it. I decided to put the pants in the wash because they were already ruined since the stain wouldn’t come out. Not only did the pants (and the stain) come out fine, the pants were a couple of shades lighter from all the dirt that came out in the wash. Yuck!

✭ savvy on September 25, 2008 at 8:39 am.
Tell it, Savvy. Most dry cleaners are a rip off. Florida is hot and sweaty and I don’t find that they get underneath the underarms of garments. I’m a washing machine queen, and I am not ashamed to admit it.

✭ The Frugalista Files on September 25, 2008 at 8:47 am.
I am a washing machine queen! And Woolite on the delicate cycle is my chemical of choice for those “dry clean only” items. I figure they have air dry cycle on dryers for a reason. Has anyone tried those home dry cleaning kits? By the way Fruga, can you Divas tell us if we are getting into “80s clothing styles. I remember last recession there was lots of black and blue jeans were in fashion. I’m seeing a lot of both in store windows. I remembeer black was my frugality because it went with everything.

✭ Lou Elliott Jones on September 25, 2008 at 9:20 am.
I hear y’all on dry-cleaning prices and all that, but for men it’s different. Ain’t no way I’m putting a decent suit in a washing machine or shower. Not that long ago, I wore this bangin’, pinstriped Jones New York three-button for a meeting I had, and it started pouring while I was walking down the street. The suit, and the money I spent on it, were almost ruined, and I had to take it to the dry cleaner to get the fabric right again. The money was worth it.
One of the few unnecessary expenses that I refuse to get rid of, though, is laundry. I don’t have a washer/dryer in my apt., so I pay for wash and fold service. I take all my suits/business clothes to the cleaners. For me, it’s all a matter of convenience: I just ain’t got time to be up in a laundromat all day. When I do buy a washer/dryer, I’m probably going to get one with one of those steam settings so I can stick at least my dress shirts in there.

✭ $ out of .15 on September 25, 2008 at 10:44 am.
You got to love the Japanese. I bought a ladies three-piece suit in Japan that was black and came with a jacket, skirt and a work-style little black dress. This suit could go in the washing machine and it comes out the dryer unwrinkled. It was great for traveling because you could come up with a lot of different looks by mixing and matching. It cost me about $90 US and was a great investment. I probably wouldn’t wear it for a really big interview but it was passable enough for regular work duties. I still haven’t seen anything like it here.

✭ chic not cheap on September 25, 2008 at 12:14 pm.
I would buy the shower cleanable suit because no one can clean my clothes better than me…dry cleaner personnel included. I only use dry cleaning services when I need something creased perfectly. Bottom line… a shower clean suit is frugally fabulous.

✭ Tela on September 25, 2008 at 2:32 pm.
I am not going to be that cheap. Dry cleaning is the only way to make sure your suit is smelling so fresh, so clean!

✭ Greg on September 25, 2008 at 5:19 pm.
I avoid (like the plague) dry clean only stuff because I’m poor. But my dad stands by the cleaners. No one else can touch his suits and they are some snazzy numbers. That being said, he has no desire or need to be frugal.

✭ Vanessa on September 25, 2008 at 9:57 pm.
I dry clean my clothes but they don’t always get the arms right. I cant stand it when I wear a suit again only to realize that I am walking around tart. Damn!

✭ Tart on September 25, 2008 at 10:22 pm.
OK, I know I’m late to the party on this one, but…
All you are doing is saturating the fabric. You aren’t getting anything that’s imbedded in the fabric. That means that it’ll do for a light cleaning, but if it’s really a mess, you’ll still have to dry clean it.
It doesn’t sound like a horrible idea, but I’d want to look at the fabric and see what it was made of first.

✭ GLM on September 26, 2008 at 5:10 pm.

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