Before Wear- To Dryclean or Not

[emolas]

I was wearing my SWK MacLeod Hunting standard the afternoon that the box was delivered. When the time has come to lauder it, I simply did it on gentle with Woolite. Line dried and touched up the pleats with a quick steam press.

James

Me too, I can't even wait for them to be pressed. I put it on the minute I get it and wear it, wrinkles and all, for the rest of the day

[Barb T]

A dry cleaner will not do anything to the pleats that you can't do at home with an iron and a press cloth. If you're worried about wrinkles from shipping, do the pressing _before_ you take the basting out.

And many cleaners will actually ruin the pressing of the pleats of a kilt because they will lay the kilt down with the pleats fanned before they press. Once a kilt is pressed this way, the back hangs in waves instead of straight down. It's almost impossible to recover from this, unfortunately. You'll see a couple pics below that illustrate the difference between proper pressing and a ruined kilt.

Barb

two properly-pressed kilts



a badly pressed kilt

[wingedferret]

Thanks for the answers and welcomes everyone. It's been a big help.


Nick