Client care
Care for
the cloth.
A suit cut for one person should last years, not seasons. Almost all of that is habit rather than product.
- Air it before you clean it
- Most of what a suit picks up in a day is air, not dirt. Hang it somewhere with movement for a few hours after wearing and it recovers on its own. This single habit does more for a jacket than any cleaning product.
- Brush, don't wash
- A soft clothes brush, downward, along the grain of the cloth. It lifts dust out of the weave before it settles into the fibre. Do it after two or three wears rather than at the end of the season.
- Give the shoulder room
- The extended shoulder is the whole point of this jacket, and a narrow hanger will collapse it. Use a wide, shaped hanger, and leave space either side in the wardrobe so nothing presses the chest flat.
- Hang trousers from the hem
- Clip the hems and let the trouser hang upside down. The weight of the cloth pulls the crease and the pleats straight, which is why a high-rise wide trouser rarely needs pressing at all.
- Press with steam, and with a cloth
- Steam relaxes wool; a hot dry iron flattens and glazes it. If you press, always use a pressing cloth between the iron and the garment, and never press directly over a pleat or a lapel roll you want to keep soft.
- Dry-clean rarely
- Dry-cleaning is a solvent process and it costs the cloth a little life each time. Clean the suit when it is genuinely soiled or at the end of a season of steady wear — not as routine maintenance.
- Spots, immediately
- Blot, never rub, with a clean dry cloth, from the outside of the mark inwards. Leave it at that. Water and household cleaners set more stains in tailoring cloth than they remove.
- Store it breathing
- Between seasons, keep the suit in a breathable cotton garment bag rather than plastic, somewhere dry and dark. Cedar in the wardrobe, not mothballs.
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