Rena Lange and Dye Stain Removal at Jeeves

Your man Jeeves received a call last week from the manager at Rena Lange. They were in a bit of a bind as a steamer in their shop decieded to leak onto a gray jacket which was touching these beautiful white wool crepe slacks.

As you may have noticed the dye from the jacket has caused considerable damage to the white slacks, which were entrusted to Jeeves for restoration.

Our head cleaning technician was given the challenge and after hours of careful work and cleaning in liquid carbon dioxide the results are nothing less than perfection.

Jeeves has seen far too many garments with stains such as this ruined due to improper dry cleaning by shops who do not employ craftsmen.

Stain removal requires extensive knowledge of chemistry, garment construction, and fabric types. By simply placing a garment into a dry cleaning machine does not yield a stain free result.

Your man Jeeves is known world wide as the place to take care of the most difficult stains on the most delicate of garments. Why trust anyone else?

Jeeves is one of America’s Best Cleaners and the only world wide garment care concern. Jeeves New York is the only luxury garment care firm in New York to be 100% petrochemical free.

All dry cleaning at Jeeves is accomplished in liquid CO2 which is the only method approved as safe by the EPA.

Thanksgiving Stains and Your Man Jeeves

Your man Jeeves hasn’t always celebrated Thanksgiving, in fact he still is a bit leery of the idea. Being an import from Britain, the notion of celebrating a quintessential American holiday can be  a bit much, but he is learning to love the Macy’s Parade.

Jeeves is certain of one thing , Thanksgiving always means work.

A large dinner  with many guests tends to be a bit trying on Jeeves’ nerves, especially with the potential for a variety of stains.

Cranberry stains are somewhat difficult whether they be on your crisp white table linens or your favorite silk tie. Never the less, remove as much of the offending sauce as possible without rubbing the stain. Bring the tie to your man Jeeves as soon as possible so he can remedy the situation for you. Linens should be pretreated and washed right away, and of course Jeeves can take care of this for you as well.

Gravy can create quite the predicament as well.  Most have butter as an ingredient so anything stained with gravy may need the Jeeves touch and to be dry cleaned. Jeeves’ new Eco2 Cleanse CO2 dry cleaning process takes care of gravy stains wonderfully, plus is environmentally responsible.

Unruly grass stains may present themselves while your family works off their newly acquired calories playing “football” ( your man Jeeves prefers futbol). Hopefully everyone will change into more casual attire and will not subject their Thanksgiving best to tumbling in the grass.

With proper pretreatment, grass stains can wash out of washable clothing, but for stubborn stains, Jeeves is always at your service.

Jeeves’ Thanksgiving tradition  is relaxing after a long day with a spot of Port and a slice of pumpkin pie.

Mad Men & Dry Cleaning

“People were buying cigarettes before Freud was born”, Don Draper, Mad Men.

Your man Jeeves would suggest to Mr. Draper that he use our services on a regular basis. One would hope that when you meet with clients you always look (which Mr. Draper does) and smell your best.

With all of the smoking that Mr. Draper does in confined quarters the odor of smoke must permeate his wardrobe.

With the smoking, and Mr. Draper’s habitual womanizing, Jeeves would recommend frequent dry cleaning of his suits to remove perfume odors and perhaps Mrs. Draper wouldn’t be leaving him. Jeeves does not condone Mr. Draper’s actions, but has been trained to “look the other way” with such matters.

Jeeves can also attend to Mr. Draper’s stains, whether they be a splash of a Manhattan or a “tell tale” smudge of lipstick.

With Mr. Draper, “living like there’s no tomorrow, because there isn’t one”, it would be Jeeves’ hope to keep Mr. Draper looking and smelling great.

Jeeves’ services include hand finished dry cleaning using our hybrid CO2 process, Eco2 Cleanse. Dry cleaning in the 1960’s was accomplished with harmful chemicals, but Jeeves NY process is state-of-the-art.

No other worldwide Jeeves location or any other New York luxury dry cleaning firm has Eco2 Cleanse.

“Advertising is based on one thing: happiness. And do you know what happiness is? Happiness is the smell of a new car. It’s freedom from fear. It’s a billboard on the side of a road that screams with reassurance that whatever you’re doing is OK. You are OK”, Don Draper, Mad Men

Eco2 Cleanse, “Simply Green, Simply Clean, Simply Better for You”, Jeeves New York. What would Mr. Draper think?

$23,000 Dolce & Gabbana Handbag, Ink Stained!

Who does Dolce & Gabbana call when you discover that a $23,000 alligator handbag on the selling floor has a pen mark?

Jeeves, of course.

Last Friday your man Jeeves took a call from the manager of Dolce and Gabbana on Madison Avenue who had a big problem, no a huge problem. She had a $23,000 alligator bag on the selling floor and someone put a pen mark on it.

Jeeves is on the case. Our lead handbag technician is hard at work as we speak, working her magic to remove the offending ink stain. Soon the ink will be gone, and all will be right again at Dolce and Gabbana.

Dolce and Gabbana’s first call was to New York and London’s finest garment care firm, Jeeves of Belgravia, with worldwide locations. By the way, Jeeves is the ONLY worldwide garment care firm.

Jeeves of Belgravia, New York will be the only luxury garment care firm to remove ALL of the petrochemicals from the cleaning process. No other luxury dry cleaner in New York can make that claim either.

White Armani Jacket and the Lipstick Stain

Your man Jeeves always knows about discretion. When a gentleman drops off a jacket with a bit of lipstick on the collar, Jeeves does not assume or ask questions.

It’s Jeeves’ job to make the problem go away.

Case in point is this week is a lovely white linen Giorgio Armani jacket. A bit rumbled from wear, and a bit of a lipstick near the collar.

Jeeves’ staff make quick work of the lipstick stain; cleaning the jacket by hand.  Lastly our pressing craftsmen take their time to completely hand press every part of the jacket so it will be “better-than-new”.

Problem gone and the jacket is perfect. All in a day’s work for, your man Jeeves.

When you want the best-of-the-best, no other garment care firm anywhere can compare with Jeeves of Belgravia, New York.

Jeeves is unique amongst garment care firms in New York City as we hold the Royal Warrant as “Dry cleaners to HRH the Price of Wales”, have been selected as one of America’s Best Cleaners and are the ONLY world-wide garment care firm.

The Gown from North Carolina

This weeks garment comes to Jeeves of Belgravia, New York by way of Greenville, North Carolina.

It is a couture silk chiffon gown with a silk leaf design that includes beaded and rhinestone trim. The client hand carried the gown to Jeeves last week while she was in New York.

The main issue with cleaning this beaded gown is that the layers of fabric are extremely fragile. Our pre-cleaning condition report also indicated that some of the stains at oxidized (turned yellow).

Our head cleaning technician was up to the task and hand cleaned the entire gown to remove all traces of soiling. A “q-tip” was used to apply an anti-oxidation cleaning solution to the yellowed areas. This staining was greatly reduced, and was no longer noticeable.

The gown was packed in our custom designed wardrobe container for shipping. The gown left our hands today via FEDEX on it’s journey back to

North Carolina.

Sweet 16 Gown

The client who owns this gown had a great time at her Sweet 16 party last month. The only issue is that her friends thought it would be great to have her wear part of the cake.

Brought to us at Jeeves of Belgravia here in New York, was a wonderful party gown covered in butter-cream frosting. And the butter-cream was in a deep shade of green and bright yellow.

The cleaning technicians at Jeeves started their work at once before the food dye in the butter-cream would soak into the fibers and become permanent.

Making matters somewhat complex is that the design of the dress makes cleaning difficult as the applied flowers are very delicate.

Careful hand cleaning first as well as immersion in our Eco-Clean solution yielded a perfect result.

Special gowns need special care, left in the wrong hands this dress could have become a “nightmare” rather than a rather “sweet” Sweet 16.

Thanks for listening, Jerry Pozniak.

Tory Burch Dress

Hello all and welcome again to the garment of the week.

Today we are going to take a look at a Tory Burch dress that we cleaned about a week ago.

The client requested our Eco-friendly dry cleaning process and according to the care instructions attached to the dress this should have been “no problem”.

We were rather distressed to find that the navy printed portion of the dress was “bleeding” or transferring after cleaning.

This should not happen given the fact that the care instructions indicated that all types of dry cleaning processes were usable on this dress. Our guess is that the maker only tested one type of dry cleaning.

Through careful hand-cleaning and dye removal techniques my head cleaning technician was able to remove all of the dye which had transferred, thus saving the dress from certain doom.

Cheap dry cleaners would give this dress back to their customer and let them deal with the problem. At Jeeves of Belgravia we take care of the problem for you.

4 hours of labor went into correcting this dress for our Jeeves of Belgravia client, but your man Jeeves would not have it any other way.

Jeeves of Belgravia, the best dry cleaner in Manhattan is proud to be one of only 35 garment care firms selected as America’s Best Cleaners.

Sofa

Deep chocolate brown velvet fabric covered the sofa as the white wine splash stood out as if bleached. The owner was heartbroken. Her apartment was perfect. The stain beckoned from every corner of the room.

Velvet is not a fabric to be taken lightly. Only a certain few dare to try to reverse the damage caused by liquids on velvet.

It’s not the wine causing the stain; the fabric is distorted. Velvet depends on light absorption to give the illusion of infinite depth. Once the fibers are altered with the splash of wine, the fabric reflects light when it should absorb.

Technicians from Jeeves of Belgravia’s on-site team took on the task. At first all traces of the wine need to be extracted and then each square inch of fabric, every last fiber had to be “re-aligned” so the splash would be “no more”.

A tedious job, yes. And most upholstery cleaners in NYC would say “No”. The technicians from Jeeves are the most highly qualified craftsman anywhere. Would you expect any less?

Thanks for listening. Jerry Pozniak

Label

“Hand wash: do not wringe to remove water. Place it first in a sponge towel and then dry flat. Soft cool ironing on inside out garment. Avoid low cost dry cleaning services that would not guarantee optimum results.” Critical Shopper, New York Times.

At last a garment care label that reflects the fact there are differences between dry cleaners. A label which actually tells you something more than just “dry clean only”.

Clothing is chosen on impulse, what looks great is the decision maker. Most of us never care about the “care” of the garment when we are in purchase mode.

Fashion is no longer as simple as “machine wash” or “dry clean only”. Labels profess, cajole and dictate optimum wearing conditions.

My personal favorite on a purposely wrinkled garment, “Do not wear in humid conditions”. I guess rules out wearing this light-weight designer jacket in NYC in August or anywhere in the Caribbean?

My staff reads every label of every garment to make sure every garment is taken care of correctly. Jeeves of Belgravia, who happens to have the “Royal Warrant” as THE dry cleaning service for HRH, The Prince of Wales and family is known for their attention to detail.

Other dry cleaners; who knows? This is why it is best “to avoid low cost dry cleaning services that would not guarantee optimum results”. Let Jeeves read your labels for you.

Thanks for listening. Jerry Pozniak

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