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Wedding Gown Cleaners - Experience
Rules
Does your local cleaner have
the necessary skills to safely care for wedding
gowns?
He might do a great
job pressing shirts but does he have the skills for
delicate bridal fabrics and trims? And do his employees
take the necessary care to ensure your gown looks great
after cleaning? Experience is probably the most important
factor to consider in selecting a cleaner for your wedding gown.
Many
years ago dry-cleaners were required to take
courses to learn how to properly care for
specialty garments before they could open up their
business.But over the years, government regulations
changed.Passing garment care courses are no longer
required for dry-cleaners to operate their dry-cleaning
shops. Now
it is up to individual dry-cleaners to learn the proper
methods of cleaning different fabrics and removing
various stains. This is why experience is so
valuable.
If
your gown is silk it is even more important
that you find an experienced dry-cleaner. Silk is more
difficult to clean and press than synthetic fabrics and
requires a truly skilled cleaner. Silk satin often
chafes easily, and an inexperienced cleaner may actually
damage your beautiful gown unintentionally while trying
to remove stains.
How to Find an
Experienced Wedding Dress Cleaner
Check
with your local bridal shops to see whom they use and
recommend. Ask more than one bridal shop. Bridal shops
have wedding gowns cleaned on a regular basis. They can
probably give you good advice.
Dry-cleaning and Laundry Institute
(formerly known as International Fabricare
Institute) offers excellent courses on dry-cleaning,
including wedding dress cleaning.
Individual
dry-cleaners who truly want to do a good job can take
these courses. You can locate cleaners from your area
who are members of this organization on their website,
although there is no guarantee that these cleaners have
taken the courses offered. But call them up
and find out.
Another great
way to find experienced wedding dress cleaners is to call around and
ask the following questions:
- How many wedding gowns does
the dry-cleaning shop clean in a month? A year?
- Who actually does the
cleaning and pressing of their customers' wedding
gowns? Often one very skilled person will have this
job.
- How experienced is this
individual?
- What kind of insurance does
the cleaner have?
- Are you protected if they
damage your gown?
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