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Skip the Dry Cleaners and Clean Your Sweaters at Home

Submitted by: Tip Hero  08/01/2008 1:21 PM
 
The Los Angeles Times offers up a tip for how to save money cleaning your sweathers (they talk specifically about cashmere sweaters but it can work for other types of sweaters too). Their tip? Skip the dry cleaner and do it yourself:

Cameron Silver, co-owner of the influential vintage boutique Decades: "I was spending $45 to dry clean my Loro Piana sweaters at Effrey's. Now I wash them by hand with a squirt of Citrus Magic Fine Fabric Shampoo. I wash them in my bathroom sink in lukewarm -- almost room temperature -- water. Toss the sweater in the sink for a bit, then rinse the sweater, but never wring it. Roll it in a beach towel to absorb water and then place it flat on a dry towel on a flat surface to dry. I sometimes change the towel halfway through the drying process and turn the sweater over too.
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Curious as to what happens when you take your clothes to the dry cleaners? Check out How Dry Cleaning Works.



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Can you do this method with wool also? I always find that something happens to wool when hand washed?
Thank you
 
Posted by Crystal on November 21, 2008 9:22 AM
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