Comments on: Business suit you can clean in the shower

By: GLM

GLM — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 21:10:42 +0000

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.

By: Tart

Tart — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 02:22:03 +0000

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!

By: Vanessa

Vanessa — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 01:57:15 +0000

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.

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 21:19:53 +0000

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!

By: Tela

Tela — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:32:19 +0000

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.

By: chic not cheap

chic not cheap — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:14:56 +0000

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.

By: $ out of .15

$ out of .15 — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:44:57 +0000

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.

By: Lou Elliott Jones

Lou Elliott Jones — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:20:02 +0000

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.

By: The Frugalista Files

The Frugalista Files — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:47:29 +0000

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.

By: savvy

savvy — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:39:40 +0000

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!