Dress shirts are laundered. Dry cleaning would be ok too, but not necessary, unless it’s silk, linen, or rayon, which all lose strength in water. Cotton is the exception, as it becomes stronger when wet, therefore it is laundered and pressed on a machine like this. LSR shirts (Linen Silk Rayon) cost more to clean because they are typically hand ironed after dry cleaning, and can’t be put on a press, which would shrink/destroy them. Women’s blouses don’t fit on a press (designed for men’s shirts only) and have to be hand ironed, therefore more labor and more cost. Former dry cleaner with 15 years of experience.
@@michaelsuk6440 Really unfair that presses are only designed for men's sizes and therefore women have to pay more, though definitely not the first time we've had to pay more for certain products.
how about for a 88% polyesters 12% spandex button down mens shirt? Taking it to the drycleaners today and wondering what i should say..if anything lol. All i know is no starch..wash cold inside out. Thanks for any advise!@@michaelsuk6440
It's also really expensive... a middle six-figure number (up to 1 mil depending on the manufacturer and configurations), and they have to be replaced in less than 10 years... every two years in an industrial production setting...
@@Soarano true, but roughly around 100 billion clothing items are produced each year; so for producers that's not a problem. People don't realize how big the clothing industry actually is when you are not directly working in it... it is also No. 2 on the most environmental damaging industries. A lot of dirty laundry 😅😂
I used to work at a dry cleaners. This one is way fancier than most places could afford for one, and for two, it's also way slower. At my old place of work, my coworker could've done 5 shirts in the time he took to do 2, on an older machine with less features, held together with home repairs.
@SP-io7lj no, someone still needs to load the shirts on the machine, so the machine *does* stop for lunch when the worker does. Besides, I think you might have misread my comment. We had a machine that was faster than this one even though it was older and much less fancy.
@Simone-zb2bk I do believe that it would be equal or greater in quality, yes. Quality is generally a function of how much someone cares, not what tools they have. Tools can certainly help, don't get me wrong. But if someone doesn't care and has good tools, the product will still be inferior. And if someone cares a lot and has crappy tools, they will work until the product is satisfactory.
Two years ago i got my first really nice suit. Ive only wore it like 10 times and since its a winter suit, ive only wore it with tights on my legs and a couple of layers underneath. But it was time to wash it and i was: nervous. Then my mom told me she has been just tossing on the washing machine her really nice suits for almost 20 years and they look amazing (she has only used dry cleaning for a couple of them that had embroidery)
You would be surprised at what some dry cleaners could wash and tell you that aswell me and my mum work in a dry cleaners it's only us but if we know we also tell the customers honesty is best
@@kelt7241 I know I have customer come in with items that can be washed and we say that but they don't want to take chance and be lazy and pay us to do it 😂
One of the many arts that are lost on most people today. This is awesome. I had to wear a suit for years and you guys kept me fresh. Thank you for what you do!
The newer ones actually inflate the shirt with hot air and steam and dry/press it that way super cool and you can easily do about 40 shirts an hour with perfect quality.
Most, if not all, shirt pressing bucks don't blow out the shirt with steam, the shirt is inflated with air, then two plates sandwich the inflated shirt. The plates are heated with steam and they do the pressing. That's why sometimes you get wrinkles in the pocket or near the collar. This is very hard on the shirt and they won't last as long as they would if you washed them, let them air dry, and then ironed them yourself.
@@harsha74l92 these are very large machines that process thousands of shirts a day. They use a ton of steam that requires a large steam boiler. They are found in dry cleaners. It would not be suitable for home use.
Just wanted to point out, this is type of reaction content that doesn't actively contibute to the downfall of youtube. I see so many shorts channels that i can now know there whole "reaction" would have been like, it would have been something like this "what is going on here? hes puts the Tshirt on this long board, they must be drying it or something, so cool and now he's doing it on a flat board wow" thanks for taking the time to put effort into your shorts to be informative.
I worked at a dry cleaners for 8 years .. I LOVE THE SMELL AND ENVIRONMENT 👔 👖 👚 MY MOTHER RETIRED FROM THERE AS WELL.. She TRAINED ME 👄 Pay Everyweek Off Weekends. I dont take time Off. Unless it’s my Birthday/Anniversary . Plus I love hitting Switches 😮🪡🧵👔👖👗🩳⛑️🔘💲
I'm the opposite. I hate ironing, hate it, but like my clothes and bedding to be ironed. So I do it with a movie or something on the phone to keep the mind from melting.
Do not take your dress shirts to the dry cleaners. This kind of processing destroys the buttons within 3 washes, leaving them brittle and broken. And the material is so over heated that it shrinks significantly at each wash. Never never ruin your shirts this way.
Shirt presses use 160 psi. Cheap, plastic buttons aren’t made for that. Choose a dry cleaner that charges more. They offer button replacement as a courtesy. It’s a fact that all of the equipment in the industry is hard on clothes. Good dry cleaners/launderers charge more for touch-ups and button replacements that are on-the-house. Pay less get less. Pay more get more. It’s a fact of business. For example: if you live in CA and pay 5.00 for a pressed shirt and broken buttons, then that’s the worst service. If you pay 7.50 a shirt but have all buttons intact, you’re going to the right place. Inflation, inflation, inflation. I remember when you could get full-service in MN for 3.50 a shirt. Those days are long gone. Former dry cleaner with 15+ years of experience.
Daily reminder we already invented long ago textiles that don’t need to be ironed, but humans specifically find them “not formal” exactly because they don’t need to be ironed. As in, the difficulty is the point. It’s like how we can literally make diamonds in a lab but people go “nah it’s the children suffering in mines that makes it special”, but worse - it’s me having to iron my shirt
My cleaners is definitely not a "good one" because I end up having to touch up my shirts all the time. Did one today that had a smashed front pocket. Frustrating to say the least.
@@Mandidzv -- It's a chain and they don't actually process the items on site. Most of the people who work there are teenagers and they don't give a flying flip, so complaining does little. I can do a better job myself it's just takes so much time; it's the only reason I pay for the service, to save time.
Okay so here I was minding my own business trying to find a way to make my clothes look like they came from the dry cleaners. Looks like that's not something I'll be able to accomplish 😂. I give up already after seeing this! 😅
How much per shirt is a good cost? I don’t mind paying for quality, same as artists deserve to be paid, but I also don’t want to get hoodwinked for subpar work. Now I know to double check how well the seams are pressed.
Depends on where you are in the world. Here in Ottawa, Canada, our company charges $5.30/shirt +tax. $5.75 if it is French cuff. I would say this is on the higher end, but so is our quality.
Oof I wish I had one of those😂 because I really hate ironing formal shirts. Everything else is fine and I also enjoy conditioning fabric napkins and ironing that but formal shirts nope I hate to iron them🥴
How to have less touch ups on the sides, if the unit doesn’t blow out enough? I normally use a safety pin to hold the points at the bottom of the shirt.. sometimes the sides still be a task😮
I always clean my new clothes before wearing them. Why did I get my first time drycleaned suit back and it stunk like dirty laundry? I threw it away because the stink never went away.
