$75 to dryclean a dress

[Anonymous]

This is why I don't consign clothes anymore. The high cost of drycleaning them prior to consignment means any profit is nil to zero. Not worth the time or money. I just give everything to Goodwill.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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!

This post is making me think of an episode of the Andy Griffith show where Aunt Bea accepts a proposal from the dry cleaner because she thinks Andy and Opie don’t need her any more and then gets the fiancé to break it off it off by describing her wedding dress which has all sorts of fancy buttons and such that would have to be treated like this in order to be cleaned.