Quote Originally Posted by Nathan View Post
If you don’t have a kilt rental place in your area who can recommend a dry cleaner with experience cleaning kilts, my advice would be to baste stitch your pleats in place. This is a quick and easy process there are resources online to show how it’s done. Once your basting stitches are in place, I’d trust any commercial dry cleaner to clean and press it.
My most recent kilt was made by Barb Tewksbury, so I can ask her, or perhaps the superb local seamstress who's done some other work for me (such as shortening the sleeves and then opening up the sleeve cuffs a bit on my Prince Charlie so there'd be room for my "3 Rampant Lions" cufflinks. As for asking a Kilt Hire shop, No est possible here in MT, where the nearest Apple Retail Store is 700 miles away, the nearest Nordstrom even more distant.

I do have one other "wash and press it" option. My sister is an amateur seamstress, and she's coming to visit in a month. I can leave my somewhat soiled kilt out of wearing rotation for a month and ask HER to do the basting stitching while I watch (we can use Barb's book for tutoring on how to do the basting stitches).

Oh, and I DID learn to press my own clothes as a kid (with starch for my dress shirts). My mom even pressed underwear and sheets!