$75 to dryclean a dress

[Anonymous]

I just used a new delivery dry cleaning service and I didn't check the price list in advance. I knew they were "expensive" but I had some nice items I wanted well cared for.

Got the bill today, and the fee was $75 per dress (and I had several dry cleaned). WTF? Is that what "expensive" dry cleaning costs these days?? Is that price "just" very high or is it absolutely absurd? Am I totally out of touch?

[Anonymous]

Unless we are talking about an ornate wedding gown, that price (per dress!?) is absolutely absurd. Are they using environmentally friendly chemicals and processes? What is their justification??

[Anonymous]

Where is this OP?

[Anonymous]

That’s insanely expensive. No way would I pay that much, unless it was for an elaborate wedding gown.

[Anonymous]

Almost spit out my coffee reading that price!
If it is not an error (as in maybe it should have been $7.50 per dress…which I still feel is in the high side!) then I guess it is I who is out of touch because whoa!!!

[Anonymous]

Name and shame OP. That is highway robbery.

[Anonymous]

For $75 I would just buy a new dress.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Name and shame OP. That is highway robbery.

No reason to shame, OP admitted she didn't read the price list.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Name and shame OP. That is highway robbery.

No reason to shame, OP admitted she didn't read the price list.

I too would like to know the name, that way they can get called out. Or maybe it turns out this place is the drycleaner to the most elite, in which case let stupid be stupid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Name and shame OP. That is highway robbery.

No reason to shame, OP admitted she didn't read the price list.

Any dry cleaner charging 75 per garment should be shamed. There is no justification for that cost.

[Anonymous]

Did it have pleats? Leather detail? Need stain removal?

There are circumstances where this price could be justified. Not for a regular cleaning, but for additional work.

[Anonymous]

You have to tell us who it was. I feel like Parkway can charge that for fancy gowns to be fancy cleaned by fancy people but otherwise no.

[Anonymous]

I don't think this happened at all. Not without OP naming where this happened. NOPE.

[Anonymous]

There are super premium cleaners in NYC who charge this and more. They go to a comical level of work, such as removing all buttons before washing (to prevent snags) and hand sewing them back on. They place tissue between garment folds like cuffs, they put in collar stays, they shave your sweaters, and so on. Anybody who read the Devil Wears Prada remembers the $400 “pre-wear” dry cleaning bill for Miranda Priestley’s brand new dress!

[Anonymous]

OP here. It was Parkway Drycleaning. I had a few expensive (but daytime) dresses cleaned but sadly I threw a Madewell dress in there too, which I'm really regretting.