Protect your clothes – dry clean them to save
This post shows the last outfit with these beautiful sweat pants. Why? Because I made the mistake not to dry-clean them!
When you are a regular reader of fashion magazines you always find variations of the following advice
Protect your investment basics by having it dry-cleaned. Click To Tweet
While I dry clean even my dark jeans to keep them from fading, I didn’t dry-clean one of my favorite delicate items, namely my marsala satin athleisure pants. I ruined them in the washer (see photo below)! 🙁
DIY dry cleaning saves money
This accident made me think again about the magazines’ advice again. Today I would give the following advice to my couple of weeks younger self, i.e. to me prior to washing and thereby ruining my favorite summer pants,
Protect your favorite delicate clothes by dry-cleaning them, even if the care instruction doesn't suggest dry-cleaning. Click To Tweet
Yes, these pants hadn’t been very expensive. However, I had them worn only five times. This means that the cost-per-wear was still about $5!
If I had dry-cleaned them at home with Dryel, it would have cost me less than a dollar to do so! Not to forget that water and soap also cost money! This means I could still wear my fav pants, if only, if only, I had added them to my at-home dry cleaning pile! Memo to myself:
At home dry cleaning saves money not only because it is cheaper than the dry cleaner! Click To TweetDry cleaning at home protects clothes at a fraction of the cost at the dry cleaner’s
Of course, dry cleaning at home saves money as it is cheaper than going to the dry cleaner. Not to mention the time that it saves to go to the dry cleaner twice to drop the items off and to pick it up. At home dry-cleaning also provides the freedom to wear what you want when you want it. I learned it the hard way that at home dry cleaning can also save money by protecting your favorite clothes from
- fading in the wash,
- being dyed by bleeding fabrics,
- but also from being torn when spinning, which obviously had been the fate of my favorite summer pants. 🙁
Do you dry clean your delicate or favorite items? Do you dry-clean at home or do you bring your clothes to the dry cleaner? Have you already tried at-home dry cleaning with Dryel? If not, here is an infograph on at-home dry cleaning ready to pin it in your laundry room.
P.S. You can buy the Dryel at-home dry cleaning starter kid, Dryel at-home dry-cleaning refills, and the Dryel pen for dry-cleaning-on-the-go at most local grocery stores in the US and selected stores in Canada. see the Dryel official webpage for retailers. You can also order the Dryel products online at HSN, Target and Amazon just to mention a few.
Welcome to the 129th Top of the World Style linkup party
Thanks to all of you who linked up in the past and make this party great and exciting with your inspiring outfit ideas. Welcome back! You are an awesome crowd!
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As a “Thank You” for linking up, I will pin photos from this party’s outfit posts to the Top of the World Style pinterest group board. When you want to pin all the photos of your outfit post to this group board, please follow my boards on pinterest (pinterest requirement to add you), and send me an email with the request to be added to the group board contributors. I will email you an invitation. All you have to do then is to click accept and start pinning your outfits. I would love for you to join us.
By linking up you agree that I may feature you as Top of the World Style Winner, Top of the World OOTD Readers’ Fav or Top of the World OOTD My Fav and use a photo from your linked up post in the feature. Thank you. 🙂
Top of the World OOTDs
The Top of the World Style Winner is picked by a random generator from the party two weeks ago. The reasons are as follow: Each party runs a week minus 5 minutes. At the time of scheduling a new party, the old party is still in full swing and blogger still can join. To give all guests the same chance, the old party has to have closed before drawing the winner. In plain English, the Top of the World Style Winner visited the linkup party two weeks ago.
The winner of this week’s feature is Lorena, the work fashion blogger at My Everyday Wear, who submitted her winning post at the 127th linkup party. Her fake suit with hounds-tooth print vest and white shorts is such a chic outfit for a young professional in an casual work environment. <3
The post by Pamela Graham at Style Yourself Confident became Top of the World Readers’ Fav as you clicked her post the most. She wrote about the best colors for the six different color types, and a color determining quiz. When you had had your color type determined in the 80s, you may know four spring, summer, fall and winter. However, you may have always felt that some colors of your color palette didn’t work for you. In my case, these colors were the pastels of the winter palette. No wonder, I am a deep. What is your color type? <3
Life is a Story became Top of the World OOTD My Fav. Photo from her post
Kristina, the fashion, beauty, travel and lifestyle blogger at The Kontemporary – Life is a Story became my favorite of last week’s party. Her culottes outfit is such a neat vacation look for a young European woman. Like women in India they have no problem showing their belly in summer on vacation and the weekend. Of course, at the office it is a no-no except you are a woman life guard.
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