(Follow-up Q) How many times do you wear an item of clothing that is "dry-clean only" before you actually get it cleaned?

Oh, that means you actually have to have it cleaned at some point?

Are we talking “outer” garments like coats and stuff, or “skin-close” like shirts and blouses?

Shirts
Pants
Skirts/Dresses

I never wear shirts more than one day, no good. Dry-clean pants, I might go up to a third day, if the fabric is right.

dry cleaning is “cleaning”.

you really shouldn’t dry clean an item more than twice a year, as the process can damage fabrics. slowly it will break it down and your garment is ruined. but the perc (the highly dangerous and cancer-causing chem they use in most plants) removes dirt. Some “green” operations use other processes, which i can’t think of the name of right now, but it’s slightly better all around, garment-saving wise. i don’t know that it gets anything any cleaner though.

The same goes for all my clothes, unless it smells or has a visible dirty mark on it I dont wash or dryclean

Isnt that what Febreeze is for?

I have some jeans that have not been washed in years

Very few of my clothes require dry cleaning. I take my coats in after I’m sure winter is over. We have a green dry cleaners on my block.

I only send things in for dry cleaning when they look/smell/feel dirty. Sometimes it’s after one wear, sometimes it’s, uh… a lot longer than that.