I’ve picked up some very nice, very high quality executive dress slacks lately (approx $ 100 per pair range if purchased @ retail) and according to the labels they all want to be “Professionally Dry Cleaned” . With my wash and wear Savanes & Dockers it’s usually one wearing then wash. With these I’m kind of hesitant to pay 3-4 dollars a pop each time I wear these pants for dry cleaning. Assuming I keep them stain & (relatively) wrinkle free, how many wearing times between dry cleanings is usually recommended/acceptable for high quality wool blend dress pants?
I’ve usually found that I can get several wearings of dress trousers or suits between cleanings. I don’t do much in the way of physical exertion when wearing them, so – er --no sweat as they say. It’d be ridiculous for me to have them dry cleaned after every wearing.
Dry cleaning is very hard on fabrics, so I’d keep the number down to a bare minimum.
Unless they get stained or you wear them a lot, you should be fine by having them cleaned 4 or 5 times a year at maximum.
As to keeping them wrinkle free - you can hang them in a steamy bathroom while you take a shower and the wrinkles will probably fall out on their own.
Use Dryel if they have no visible stains on them, and send them for dry cleaning every now and then.
Agreed with the above. I get many wearings from a pair of woolen trousers before dry-cleaning – I’ve never even heard of anyone having them cleaned after each use. However, you can have them pressed without dry-cleaning without quite as much damage to the material. Perhaps if you have a mangler installed in your abode you could do it yourself, Martha Stewart-style.
I had a bad experience with Dryel and dress slacks. I generally only use it for sweater-type items. My seams came undone.
I usually dry-clean after 7 wearings unless I drop food on them or something.