SIMPLE WAYS TO CARE FOR YOUR CUSTOM SUIT

Author: satoriale September 6, 2016

All wool suits, custom or not, are prone to wrinkling. To smoothen your custom suit, here are few simple but effective ways to care for them:

1. When it rains, be careful to brush the water off rather than press it into your garment. The less water your custom suit absorbs, the longer it will last. Be sure to hang your custom suits on sturdy and wide wood hangers. Plastic hangers will cause your jacket shoulders to compress.
2. Spend a few extra naira and go to a reputable Dry cleaning & laundering service like Satorialé Drycleaners. You will save money in the long run.
3. When packing your suit for a trip always put a plastic bag over it. This will prevent wrinkling and protect the suit in case something spills inside your case.
4. Try not to use the front pockets of the suit at all, but if you must use them, make sure the items are light, like business cards or handkerchiefs. Placing anything with any kind of substantial weight in the front pockets causes the front of the coat to sag down and lose its shape. It also does damage to the inside lining and potentially the fabric behind it.
5. Try and rotate the wearing of your suits as evenly as possible. Wearing a suit two days in a row or three times in a week is a recipe for disaster.
6. Always hang up your custom suits. Leaving them lying around only leads to excessive wrinkling and an eventual trip to the dry cleaner. In addition, throwing suits on the floor or bed etc. leaves the suit in an unusual position for a long period of time and will eventually cause certain delicate parts of the suit (like the lapel) to lose its shape.
7. Never separate the jacket and the pant as an outfit. Always wear them together. If you start wearing the jacket as a stand alone blazer as well as with the suit, the jacket will wear out faster than the pant. On that note, when you dry clean, always dry clean both the jacket and pant-doing one without the other might cause the color to fade differently.
8. Always remove the garment bag before hanging up your custom suit. Hanging up in a garment bag for a prolonged amount of time will not allow the fibers and fabric of the suit to “breathe”. This will lead to a breakdown in the construction of the garment.
9. If you are a bit on the heavy side or if your legs are muscular, ask your tailor to affix a crotch lining into the trousers. This is just a soft piece of cotton in the crotch area that prevents the trousers from wearing out in the thigh area.