Beware - a little TMI!
I don't need to dress formally for work except for the occasional meeting or periodic travel. i have a couple of favorite blazers and trousers I use and re-use because I feel comfortable and look good in them. I don't usually dry clean them after every use (i.e. after having spent 4 hours in them), but maybe once every few uses.
Here's the gross part - one of my fitted blazers started to smell sweaty in the pits. It looked perfectly clean but obviously it needed to be dry cleaned ASAP. I dropped it off at the drycleaners, when I picked it up, it looked and smelled just the same! When I asked the guy to take it back and clean it again, he said that dry cleaning doesn't do any thing for odor, and I should just air it out in the sun. Huh? If I threw a sweaty t-shirt in the washing machine, you can be sure it would not be smelly when it came out. So WTH does dry cleaning do if not clean? I'm kind of grossed out to even think about this, because it means that bacteria and germs are not removed by dry cleaning! Or do I just have a lame drycleaner?
Oh, and any suggestions for dealing with smelly, dry-clean only clothes? Thanks!