Why do cleaners charge different prices for mens and womens shirts?
Although many cleaners charge more for women’s garments, at Total Cleaners WE DO NOT. We find this practice discriminatory and unethical. The cost will be always the same for a men’s dry cleaned shirt and a women’s dry cleaned blouse. According to manufacturer’s label, garments can be either drycleaned or laundered. Drycleaning and laundry are two separate processes that utilize different machines, materials and incur different costs. In the laundering process, there are two types of finishing (pressing) procedures: one utilizes automated pressing equipment and the other requires hand finishing. Laundered shirts are inspected to determine what type of finishing the shirt requires. Shirts that fit size and fabric criteria (such as high temperature) can be finished utilizing automated pressing equipment designed to finish shirts quicker and more efficiently than hand pressing. For those shirts that do not fall within the criteria of utilizing the automated pressing equipment will require
