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...
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...
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...
Of course I'm not the "forum police" - but I can recognize idiotic and insulting posts. Please reread your insults directed at Vecchio Vespa in another thread for a prime example of you beginning the parade of insults. That's what caught my attention; otherwise, I couldn't care less about your opinions.
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...
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!
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.
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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...
Glad you were sufficiently entertained...
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...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.
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.
If you will reread post #28, you said, "By all means keep up the attacks (emphasis supplied) if they make you feel better about yourself and your half-zip sweaters." I did not post to criticize you. I posted to demonstrate that @triklops55 was trying to offer a sincerely intended and widely held perspective. It seemed kind since his personal fashion sense had been attacked and his contribution belittled.
Best outcome would be for the mods to boot the troll off this site. At various times he claims differing professions, country of origin, etc. Oh...and refers to himself here as a philanthropist. I know several true philanthropists and they would never…NEVER…refer to themselves as such. Can’t recall, but he probably referred to his property as an estate…which is also douchebaggery at its best. At this point, nothing he says is believable and he likely just posts here for what passes for entertainment in his mind. I will admit to conjuring up visions of him in a top hat and tails at Chuck E. Cheese tho.
