Chicago Dry Cleaners take you to the Cleaners! (Alpha, St. Johns: how much, buy)

[Jesse69]

Chicago Dry Cleaners are just TOO EXPENSIVE! Quotes for hemming a nice lined skirt around Wicker Park - $16 to $25! I finally found a place that'll do it for $12 skirt, $10 lined pants! And dry cleaning a skirt? $3.75 and up! Like how is a guy gonna afford looking like some Alpha Chick when he can't afford to dry clean his 120+ skirt suits! Man, I just gotta go around in cheap to clean men's machine wash clothes!

Anyone know of cheap but good Dry Cleaners in Chicago? What are their rates?

Houston -- hem skirt $12 ; dry clean skirt $1.69

[long101]

It is true I stopped getting my shirts dry cleaned when I moved to the city. In the burbs I would pay 2 bucks for a shirt.

Also wtf kind of guy wears skirts

[Jesse69]

How much does it cost for men's stuff, and aren't all men's clothes machine wash except only for a suit jacket? Men's clothes are cheap and boring, but I gotta be a man at times!!

[sharkylittleton]

Originally Posted by long101

It is true I stopped getting my shirts dry cleaned when I moved to the city. In the burbs I would pay 2 bucks for a shirt.

Also wtf kind of guy wears skirts

Long101, meet Jesse69.

[MyssaTx]

I try to avoid taking my clothes to the dry cleaners. It really grosses me out for my clothes to be mixed with strangers.
Besides my friends mom use to own a dry cleaners and Ive seen the water they use for laundry and most of them do not use the perc solvent correctly when dry cleaning and your stuff is dirtier than it was going in and possibly hazardous.

It is possible to find a good dry cleaners but the majority of them suck.
Just because your dry cleaners claims to be green or organic doesn't mean it is.

I recommend hiring someone to do your ironing if you suck at it like me.

[coldwine]

Originally Posted by Jesse69

How much does it cost for men's stuff, and aren't all men's clothes machine wash except only for a suit jacket? Men's clothes are cheap and boring, but I gotta be a man at times!!

Honey, where are you shopping? Have you ever been to Banana Republic? J Crew? The billions of boutiques available in Chicago?

Of course men's clothing is more boring than women's. But sweetheart, a St. John's suit is only suitable for a 72 year old white woman. You have terrible taste.

I just don't understand. Most of the cross dressers I've known were straight, middle aged guys in happy marriages. But the gay cross dressers were actually interested in looking like women, tasteful women if in things that were very low cut.

[CarolinaBredChicagoan]

Man. The title of this thread. This must have seemed like such a stroke of genius to our beloved transvestite cyclist pal.

I mean. Because it's a dry cleaner. And they take you....

wait for it...


to the CLEANERS!

(Which means they take all of your money.)





It really is breathtaking.

Downright al.....

(wait, I don't know if I can do it without retching.)

Alph.....

(oh man. I might heave.)

ALPHA!

......


There. I said it.




I need a shower.

[MyssaTx]

Originally Posted by coldwine

Honey, where are you shopping? Have you ever been to Banana Republic? J Crew? The billions of boutiques available in Chicago?

Of course men's clothing is more boring than women's. But sweetheart, a St. John's suit is only suitable for a 72 year old white woman. You have terrible taste.

I just don't understand. Most of the cross dressers I've known were straight, middle aged guys in happy marriages. But the gay cross dressers were actually interested in looking like women, tasteful women if in things that were very low cut.

She really is right about St. Johns

I don't know anyone under 60 who wears St. Johns suits.

Not all of St. Johns stuff but definitely the suits.


If you are going to cross dress you will need all the help you can get. You need to start with age appropriate clothing.

Please dont go in the opposite direction and start wearing clothes made for teenagers either. Like the 40 yr old red neck moms here that wear Hollister and are
over tanned with the same stupid slanted bob hair cut.
I really cant stand Louisiana everyone looks the same!
Lots of make up, lots of tan and no personal style except what they copied from a magazine.

[hank0604]

Dry cleaning really shouldn't be an expensive part of the budget, even if the cleaning costs for a particular item run high, because you shouldn't have to go that often, and you probably shouldn't go nearly often enough for it to be expensive.

The chemicals used in dry cleaning destroys your clothes, and should be done twice a year: once at the beginning of the season and once at the end. If it's a suit that you wear all year, maybe you could add one extra cleaning. Of course, if you are out at a bar and spill a drink on yourself or something, then you're going to have to make a special trip.

And when you think about it, you really shouldn't hesitate to shell out a decent amount for good dry cleaning. You can spend an extra $15-20 cleaning your suit, or you can save some money, have it ruined, and buy another $1000 suit.

[skipcromer]

Originally Posted by myssatx

she really is right about st. Johns

i don't know anyone under 60 who wears st. Johns suits.

Not all of st. Johns stuff but definitely the suits.


If you are going to cross dress you will need all the help you can get. You need to start with age appropriate clothing.

Please dont go in the opposite direction and start wearing clothes made for teenagers either. Like the 40 yr old red neck moms here that wear hollister and are
over tanned with the same stupid slanted bob hair cut.
I really cant stand louisiana everyone looks the same!
Lots of make up, lots of tan and no personal style except what they copied from a magazine.

but he's totally alpha!