Dry Cleaning In The USA

[Steve Ashton]

The biggest thing to remember is that a kilt can be cleaned very successfully by modern dry cleaning methods. Where the problem comes in is not with the cleaning but with what is done afterwards.

I have been using the same dry cleaners for quite some time now but I remember the first few times. The cleaner had done kilts before but I would not say that they knew a lot about them.
So I had them write in large red letters in the special instruction section of the slip Do Not Press. I made it very clear that all I wanted was for them to run the kilt through the machine and then hang it up.

These instructions were OK with them because it saved them from the added expense of the hand work. The pressing and folding after an item comes out of the machine is the expensive part of the whole job and I was saying - no thank you. So they were happy and I have not had a single problem.