[MNJ83]

Hi gents- I have several suit pants that I do not want dry cleaned but need to be pressed.

Is it safe to have any regular, chain- type dry cleaner just press my pants? I don’t know how they do it, but I don’t want shiny ruined pants....

Thanks

 

[winghus]

Dry cleaners are like any other business, you need to find one that knows what they are doing.

 

[peterc]

No, it most assuredly is NOT OK to have "any" dc do your pants. Go to the best one in town and make sure you ask for a soft press. If the pants only need a light press, and if you feel inclined, you might even turn them inside out and press them yourself using an older white 100% cotton undershirt between the pants and the iron at medium temperature. Good luck.

 

[SG_67]

Actually, if you use a cotton undershirt or cloth between the iron and the pants, there’s little need to turn them inside-out.

 

[Color 8]

I bought a good steamer. It takes the wrinkles out wool trousers and jackets and freshens them up beautifully - they look like you just got them back from the cleaners, but with no wear-and-tear.

 

[MNJ83]

I bought a good steamer. It takes the wrinkles out wool trousers and jackets and freshens them up beautifully - they look like you just got them back from the cleaners, but with no wear-and-tear.

Thanks, I have a steamer too, but I am wanting to mainly re-crease them.

 

[never behind]

Thanks, I have a steamer too, but I am wanting to mainly re-crease them.

I'd go the iron route first, as others have said. I've only taken pants to the cleaners for pressing as a last resort.

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[SG_67]

Make sure you brush them before pressing. Brushing will remove surface debris that would otherwise be pressed into the fabric.

 

[ndlutz]

There is no magic that happens at the dry cleaner that is going to ruin your pants. They just have larger machines to press the pants and the heat is higher than your consumer iron. The only issue that you may have is that you are giving control of what to do to someone else rather than DIY.

You just need to find a place that does good work. Pressers at dry cleaning plants can be a rotating cast of characters. The work is really in choosing where to take your clothes, I think.

 

[Searching_Best_Fit]

Thanks, I have a steamer too, but I am wanting to mainly re-crease them.

Get an old white t shirt or buy the linen clothes to make a pressing clothes. A white handkerchief can do as well. Go to Youtube to find videos that teach you how to *press* your trousers. You want to press, not iron, your wool trousers. Align the seams, use press clothes and spray water or steam from iron, and press your trouser slowly and you should be able to re-crease the trousers easily.

Don't forget to brush it first prior to creasing them. And when you press, you press from the inseam side first, not the outseam side.

 

[Charles Dana]

No, it most assuredly is NOT OK to have "any" dc do your pants. Go to the best one in town and make sure you ask for a soft press.

I completely agree with the above advice. It is solid. DO NOT go to just any dc. Before you let a Doctor of Chiropractic administer any treatment (including the soft press that peterc suggested), you must check with the website of the Board of Chiropractic Examiners in your state. Make sure the DC you're considering is duly licensed. The website will also tell you if any complaints have been lodged against a particular DC.

The website of the American Chiropractic Association has links to each state's Board of Chiropractic Examiners.

My charcoal grey cavalry twill trousers once had a bad case of sciatica. A DC worked wonders. But I chose carefully, as should the OP.