Beau Knows Clothes

Do you have precious keepsake garments or household linens that have been passed down to you? Perhaps it’s your Mother’s wedding dress, your Grandfather’s Christening gown, your Aunt’s beautiful crochet tablecloth, or Grandmother’s intricately worked afghans?

Oftentimes, those precious fabrics weaken with age and wear and we treat them with caution and reverence—and a special place in the closet where they are never touched. I would like to encourage you to enjoy those meaningful pieces of your family’s past without worry, after all, these items were made to be used and enjoyed.

“Beau knows clothes” and fragile household fabrics as well, and I knows how to handle those delicate heirlooms to restore their natural coloring and gently remove signs of age. Today you can have them restored without damaging the weak fabrics or unstable dyes in vintage pieces. Years of experience and careful pre-testing ensure that your family heirlooms will return to you in far better condition than you likely ever remember seeing them. I’d like to encourage you to pull them out of their alcoves in the back of your closets and bottom of your drawers and start using them again with confidence. We’ll keep them looking beautiful for your kids to use when you are ready to pass them on to the next generation.

We take pride in carefully inspecting your garments to determine the most effective yet gentle cleaning methods available in the dry cleaning industry today. Here are examples of how we can help:

Past Storage

Do you have a garment that’s been stored in a dry cleaning box from yesteryear? Garments carefully cleaned or preserved in the past may have collected damage over the years. That is because the “plastic window” on the top of old dry cleaning boxes actually accelerates hidden stains, oxidizing and yellowing them over time. Today’s dry cleaning technology can remove much of that staining and restore the bright white and soft cream colors of antique garments. We pay attention to the little details, too, such as carefully removing old buttons prior to storing your garment to avoid future causes of accelerated aging and staining.

Fire or Flood

Fire or flood can bring a devastating shock and loss to a family. Sifting your memories into piles of “salvage” or “dump” takes such an emotional toll! I am so thrilled to see the excitement we bring to people by restoring the treasures they thought they lost.

Most often, it’s the loss of heirloom pieces and irreplaceables that people are saddened by. Water and smoke damage can wreak havoc on clothes and can be very difficult to restore with household laundry cleaning methods, so that’s where we come in.

We’d be happy to help you bring your old fabrics and keepsakes back to life again. So push your reluctance aside and pull out your delicate heirlooms for the whole family to enjoy—afterall, when Grandma painstakingly made that afghan, she probably didn’t want it relegated to a closet in a state of stale preservation! Wouldn’t she want her children and grandchildren to enjoy the comfort and beauty she crafted with loving hands? So do we.