Bah!

Thursday, August 2nd, 2007 08:44 pm
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I managed to get a couple of drops of oily food on my suede waistcoat whilst I was in Israel. At first this seemed the least of my troubles—that Shabbos lunch, I was wearing only my waistcoat on my top half, because the person sitting next to me had bit into a cherry and spattered cherry juice all over my shirt (which was now wet, having been washed) and my trousers (which I drew the line at taking off!); but the stains came off my other garments okay.

I finally got around to taking my waistcoat in to the dry cleaners the other day. Despite being labelled specialists in suede and leather, they said they'd have to send it off for treatment, being pigskin suede: if they did it there it would lose a lot of its lustre; it would have to be done properly and reoiled and everything... and it would cost me £25. Which is several times the amount [livejournal.com profile] livredor spent on it in the first place. But maybe I need to bite the bullet and do it; it's been accumulating a greyish tinge around its lower rim for the last while, and until I get it done I can't wear the bow tie that goes with it either. (Not unless I choose to wear it anyway; the stain isn't very noticeable, particularly if I brush the suede in the "wrong" direction.)

A quick google shows a number of techniques suggested for cleaning suede; but I'm not confident if I try them out, I might not wreck the garment. Probably this is something best left to the professionals.
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