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Dry Cleaning Your Suit To Make It Last
Buying a new suit is a major purchase and you want to do all you can to make it last. If a suit is worn either too tight or too loose, then it is likely to wear out faster as the fabric will wear unevenly based on the unusual stress or lose folds caused by ill fit.
Also, as far as body shape is concerned, larger men usually find that their suits wear out more quickly. This is often most pronounced among men with thicker thighs, and the wear complained of is most often visible signs of stress and strain on the fabric in the crotch area such as thin spots in the fabric or visible pilling.
Finally, the garment itself definitely can play a role in this. A suit composed of exceptionally light weight wools is typically less hearty than are the heavier weights. Many of the crepe wools, the super 120s and the even higher graded wools such as the super 150s, are like wise not as rugged wearing as are the older standard 80s and 90s wools, gabardines and the like.
Unfortunately, as far as the suit make and material are concerned, there really are not any hard and fast rules or conditions that can let you know ahead of time how a particular make, model, or style is likely to wear, let alone how it is likely to wear on you.
Dry cleaning needs to be performed very infrequently, as this is quite hard on the fabric of the suit. You should expect to dry clean no more often than once per season, unless the suit is stained or smells. So, when should you dry clean your suit? The answer is probably less often than you would think. Dry cleaning is hard on a suit and too frequent trips to the dry cleaners can significantly shorten the life span of your suit by weakening the fibers, leading to shiny spots or a prematurely worn appearance.
If the suit is stained and can not be spot cleaned, or if it smells, or if it has been worn regularly and not cleaned for more than six months, then your suit probably needs to be cleaned. If it i just rumpled and in need to pressing, then bring it to the dry cleaners to be pressed only.
While convenience is obviously a great selling point when selecting a dry cleaner, also know that you often get what you pay for. A dry cleaner with prices that seem too good to be true may be reusing the dry cleaning solution more than is prudent, which leads to inefficient cleaning and that weird chemical smell on your clothing. A a truly top notch dry cleaner will be performing little extras like wrapping the buttons in foil prior to cleaning to protect them against damage and hand finishing the pressing to ensure that collars are not flattened and the like, but it may also cost you up forty dollars to get a suit cleaned.
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