What is the difference between dress shirts and blouses/specialty shirts?
We consider shirts that we will clean at shirt prices to be as follows: • Cotton and cotton blends, 100% polyester and linen. • Must have buttons all the way down the front. • Button cuffs and a collar, short or no sleeves are OK We do not clean any of the following garments at shirt prices: • Any shirt that does not have a top button • Polo/Golf/Knit shirts • Spandex • Waist ties • Rayon • Silk • Ruffles, (tuxedo type are OK) • Gathered or pleated • Zippers, they crush • Pearl/shell buttons, they break. • Corduroy • Metal snaps, they crush. • Screen printed, it comes off and transfers to other shirts • Quilted • Lapels that customer requests to be ironed open vs. buttoned • HANDWASH, there is no such thing commercially. The reason for the above is that we wash and process (press) shirts wet, on equipment that we dress like a mannequin, the shirt is then pressed completely. We cannot prevent things from happening in it, like we can when they are hand pressed. Therefore we must charge m
