[vonSuess]

"H. Freeman was tailored to be one level below Oxxford."

Of the suits mentioned, Oxxford is the one. I wouldn't recommend used clothing under any circumstances but Oxxford is well worth the price new. Buy it new, buy it to fit and keep it cleaned and pressed for each wearing. If one is to be the best dressed wherever he goes, Oxxford is a good start...

 

[vonSuess]

Cleaning and pressing a $4500 suit every time one wears it seems like a really really bad idea.

Do you have a source for that? When I was the chemist for one of the large sellers of drycleaning equipment and chemical products we did extensive testing and could find no evidence of extra wear. My own experience bears this out as I wear a suit every day and never seem to wear them out...

 

[vonSuess]

Do you dry clean your suits each and every time you wear them?

Largely so. In the summer there are few exceptions. Otherwise, we might press one out now and then for an additional wearing. I do know how to press garments from my time in the industry, but I like everything about a suit that's freshly cleaned and pressed. It's much like freshly laundered and ironed shirts...

 

[vonSuess]

That you would recommend purchasing a new Oxxford suit to a person who bought a suit for $13 is absurd. Either you don't bother to read other people's posts before you respond, or your desire to display your immense ego has eclipsed logical thought.

Yawn. Another day, another ad hominem attack from the proletariat. Qu'ils mangent de la brioche...

 

[vonSuess]

You seem to be ignorant of the meaning of "ad hominem" - a mistake Louis XVI and his wife wouldn't have made. My comments are based specifically on what you've written, not on anything else. Now, if you could contribute something of value to AAAC rather than insults and inane recommendations, perhaps your comments wouldn't elicit the responses they do from people from all walks of life - not just the "proletariat."

Now, Tiger. God bless you but you are acting like a child. You aren't the forum police, nor are you the judge of what is a meaningful recommendation. Except in response to your juvenile insults, I don't comment on your posts. We are only having this discussion because you are once again seeking to pick fights with me about mine. Since you are such a self-appointed expert about all this, why don't you put on that half-zip sweater and look at my posts again and find an example where I was the one who started the insulting? Then, perhaps you can grow up and stop with the bullying. By the way, does your reference to Louis XVI and his wife mean you have definitively solved the mystery as to the identity of the great princess? As one who grew up in France, I always try to express my gratitude to outsiders who go to the trouble of explaining our history to us...

 

[vonSuess]

Funny stuff. Not a word of truth to it, but amusing, none-the-less. By all means keep up the attacks if they make you feel better about yourself and your half-zip sweaters. Nobody ever made themselves better by trying to make someone else look worse, but as long as you are pestering me, I suppose you're leaving everyone else alone and I'm just here to serve humanity...

 

[vonSuess]

Pressing a suit will definitely be detrimental to the fabric and will create the dreaded fabric shine over time. I don't know about dry cleaning, but my guess is that having natural fabrics repeatedly exposed to cleansing chemicals can't be beneficial.

I'm not sure testing supports what you say, but to which cleansing chemicals do you refer? It's not likely professional pressing equipment will cause that dreaded shine, either. If you are pressing at home, you can either use a pressing cloth to avoid direct contact with the hot surface of an iron or turn the garment inside out when pressing...

 

[vonSuess]

The truth of what I wrote clearly stings. Don't fret; you'll bounce back to your kindhearted self in no time at all. To express my regret, should I somehow get lost in Paris and wind up at Place Pigalle, I'll drop a euro in your Oxxford cup!

Childish, Tiger. Very childish. But keep it up and keep using those cliches. If somebody must be the court jester here, there's no reason it shouldn't be you...

 

[vonSuess]

When someone offers well-intentioned and advice, including the qualifier "I don't know about dry cleaning," it seems a but much to call it an out and out attack. As the two links below contend, some purportedly knowledgeable people support the advice of @triklops55. It sounded in post #21 as if you have personal experience in the clothing care industry. Based on your experience and views I would expect there to be support for competing views. I have very limited training in caring for woolens. The United States Navy taught me how to use their famous Armstrong washers for my dress blues and how to fold and stow them under my rack to press them.

When To Dry Clean Your Suit - Do's And Dont's | Misiu Academy

After a wine stain in yesterday's party you have to visit the dry cleaner but how often should you? Read about when to dry clean your suit.

www.misiuacademy.com

When (and when not) to Press Suits

Some maintenance activities for your suit may end up harming it when not taken at the right time. To press suits is vital to their maintenance, but is there a time when it is prudent not to?

www.butlerluxury.com

If you have the means to buy high cost suits and have them cleaned between wearings, it would seem unlikely that degrading your fabric would be of any concern.

When did I say that was an out and out attack or even an attack at all? I'm an expert in that field and the only genuinely definitive testing regarding fabric wear from laundering and drycleaning that I'm aware of was done by my team in our lab in Augsburg, Germany in 1985. I hardly see the problem with pointing that out and asking if my many critics have actual data for their contrary assertions, since they always seem to admit they don't know anything about subject. On the other hand, if you just made your post because you want to criticise everything I say, well get in line with the other ten year old boys of all ages...