Making the right impression at work isn’t hard if you keep in mind three basic points when buying clothes for the office: 1. Presentation counts. 2. Casual shouldn’t mean slovenly. 3. Dress as you want to be seen: Serious, professional, upward-bound and ready to meet clients. Before you head to your store in search of new...
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Knit Wear
Purchasing Knit Wear – Construction How do you judge quality in a knit garment? First check for overall smoothness, flat construction, even stitches an absence of needle holes, broken stitches, or loose threads. The garment should be cut on grain to avoid twisting of seams after washing. Quality seems are surged or...
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Dust Mites
Do you feel like you have an endless cold or asthma? Dust Mites cause allergies(1): Red, itchy eyes Runny nose Sneezing Dust mites eat dead skin to live. You probably shed enough skin a day to feed a million dust mites(2). Dust Mites live in your bedding. In one study, a typical duvet was found...
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Formal Friday
Formal Friday Formal Friday is the tradition, practice even religion of wearing a suit every friday regardless of what the dress code. It started about 7 years ago after being told that they could not wear black jeans to work on Friday where they had business casual dress code. So now they wear a...
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How wet cleaning is different from dry cleaning
What is dry cleaning? An historical perspective (The following is an excerpt from the EPA: Case Study: Wet Cleaning for Garment Care) Professional cleaners, during the 1930s and 1940s, cleaned about one-fourth of all customers’ garments in water. At that time, cleaning in water was a very different process than is modern wetcleaning. It was...
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France forces dry cleaners to use safer chemicals
Tetrachloroethylene. Perchloroethylene. Perc. No matter how many syllables you break this cleaning compound down to, it’s still a type A2 carcinogen. If you strip away the A2 designation, this just means it’s a suspected human carcinogen. According to Wikipedia, “This category is used when there is limited evidence of carcinogenicity in humans and sufficient evidence of carcinogenicity in experimental animals. In...
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New location open for business!
At Georgian Bay Wet Cleaners, we’re really excited to announce that our new location at 136 Pine Street is finally open for business. It’s been a long haul. We purchased the building and business from the previous dry cleaning location here and completed remodelling the place from the ground up. We patched and painted. We...
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