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Garment Care Tips

The DIA aims to provide consumers with information to assist with keeping their clothing and fabric at their best.

Here is a collection of garment care tips and information sheets to help answer common questions consumers ask.

Stains- How You Can Help

Stains and soil left too long on fabrics can be impossible to remove.

Tips on Stains

In most cases, your professional dry cleaner can easily remove these stains if you point them out.

Tips to Make Your Clothes Lasts

What is Wedding Gown Preservation?

Most brides will choose to preserve their dress as a keepsake, with the hope of passing it down to a daughter or close family friend.

What to do if clothes bleed?

When making clothing, the manufacturer is torn between two opposing desires. On one hand, they need to create a garment that is serviceable.

What’s an “Invisible Stain”?

As unlikely as it sounds, there is a group of stains known as “Invisible Stains”.

Why are women’s blouses more expensive to clean than men’s business shirts?

The reason cleaners charge more for women’s blouses than men’s business shirts is because they are passing along their increased cost of production to their customers.

Why can’t the dry cleaner remove every stain?

Unfortunately for everyone, some stains are permanent. They simply become part of the fabric.

Why do dry cleaners charge more for extra large shirts

The short answer is dry cleaners charge more for extra large shirts because they cost the cleaner more to process.

Why do dry cleaners charge more for silk and linen

When cleaners up charge, they are passing on an increased cost of production to their customers

Consumers are at the heart of our organisation

Consumers, retailers, garment manufacturers and government agencies are often requiring information on drycleaning. DIA has prepared this resource to assist all interested persons in achieving a better understanding of dry cleaning. Please feel free to contact the Drycleaning Institute of Australia if any further information is required and we will be only too happy to assist.