The Benefits of Southside Professional Dry Cleaning.

These are just a few of the benefits of using Southside Cleaners for your drycleaning and clothing care.

Alterations: Professional drycleaners like Southside Cleaners are full-service clothing care specialists. Alterations are one of the many services they may offer in addition to dry cleaning your clothes.

Buttons: We repair loose buttons or sew on new ones, if necessary.

Convenience: All you have to do is drop your clothes off and pick them up. Southside takes care of the rest. Why waste hours doing laundry and ironing when you get quality and convenience with dry cleaning?

Dry cleaning, the process itself: dry cleaning uses fluids to remove soils and stains from fabrics. Among the advantages of dry cleaning is its ability to dissolve grease and oils in a way that water cannot. Natural fibers such as wools and silks dryclean beautifully, but can shrink, distort, and lose color when washed in water. Synthetic fibers like polyester also respond well to dry cleaning, whereas they can retain oily stains after washing. dry cleaning helps to return garments to a "like-new" condition using precautions to prevent shrinkage, loss of color, and change of texture or finish.

Expertise: From fashions and fabrics to stain removal to the latest cleaning technologies, drycleaners have the expertise to clean your clothes right. Why do it yourself or settle for a second-rate job from a so-called "home dry cleaning kit" when you could trust in the expertise of Southside Cleaners?

Finishing: Thanks to special pressing equipment, professional finishing gives garments a crisp, wrinkle-free, like-new appearance that can't be beat. There are no rumples or creases out of place. Plus, by taking your clothes Southside, you don't have to spend your weekend standing over an ironing board and a hot iron.

Garment storage: Have you got too many clothes and too little space? Southside provides garment storage for out-of-season items. The garments are stored in a vault, which offers protection from insects, fire, burglary, flood, and mildew damage. Furs used to be the primary storage item, but today cleaners receive woolens, household items, and other items to store as well.

Household textiles: Southside doesn't just clean clothes. We also process household items such as blankets, comforters, decorative pillows, rugs, and even upholstery and draperies.

Inspection: Before you pick up your order or before we drop it off, Southside conducts an inspection to make sure your order has met our expectations. If we aren't happy we know you won't be happy, we make sure your satisfaction is our priority. Safeguards like this help ensure that your clothes will look their best when you come to pick them up.

Knowledge of fabrics and fashions: You may know what rayon, silk, and cotton are, but what about angora, faille or seersucker? There are numerous fabrics and fibers that drycleaners must know about in order to care best for the clothes they receive. Each fabric can respond positively or negatively depending on the treatment administered.

Laundry: Southside Cleaners also has commercial laundry departments where we process shirts, cotton pants, and other items. With the convenience and superior level of pressing that comes with commercial laundry, it won't just be your dryclean-only clothes that look like a million bucks. Your business casual and casual attire will look their best, too.

Neckties: Ties are often made of delicate fabrics (such as silk) and require special care. Whether you've spilled gravy on your favorite tie or are just looking to spruce it up, Southside is the best equipped to clean it.

Odor removal: Southside specializes in odor removal and flood and fire restoration of water- or smoke-damaged items. We make sure that your items return smelling the way you remember them, not they way you brought them in.

Preservation: Southside also specializes in the preservation of wedding gowns, christening gowns, and other family heirlooms. Preservation is a special type of storage that helps prolong the life of a garment for years and years. Southside can help preserve memories.

Restoration: In addition to preservation, Southside specializes in the restoration of old wedding gowns, heirloom items, and antique textiles. These items often are very delicate and require great care. Our restoration specialists have the expertise to take in these items, although the level they can restore them to depends on their condition at the time they are brought in.

Stain removal: Southside uses complex procedures and special stain removal chemicals to remove stains. Stains are divided into two major categories: solvent-soluble stains and water-soluble stains. Different stains require different treatments, which stain removal technicians are trained to administer. Why risk a disaster using an over-the-counter "all-purpose" stain removal product or trying a "home remedy" when you could rely on your Southside's expert stain removal abilities?

Technology: Southside is on top of the latest cleaning and fabric technologies. We are constantly looking for better ways to keep your items at their cleanest and in the best condition.

Value: A good value is what Southside Cleaners provides our customers through quality work, excellent customer service, and the extra free time to do the things they'd rather be doing instead of washing and ironing clothes.

Wetcleaning: Wetcleaning is a gentle form of cleaning that Southside may choose to process sensitive textiles such as wool, silk, rayon, and linen. It gives us more flexibility in processing items that may not withstand a dry cleaning process or that have soils that would be better removed in water. For example, many items, such as wedding gowns, are often trimmed with plastic beads or sequins that may dissolve or discolor in dry cleaning but generally perform well in wetcleaning. Items with large water-soluble stains are also more likely to come clean in a wetcleaning process.

eXtend the life of your garments: Contrary to the belief of some, frequent cleaning does not damage clothes. Frequent cleaning extends the life of a garment by removing stains and ground-in dirt and soils that can cause fiber abrasion.

Yellowing: Frequent cleaning removes stains that, if left untreated, could oxidize and cause yellowing. Exposure to heat or the passage of time can cause stains from food, beverages, and other oily substances to oxidize and turn yellow or brown, much the way a peeled apple turns brown after exposure to air. Once they become yellow or brown, these stains become much more difficult to remove and often cannot be removed.

Zip in and out: That's how long it takes you to drop off and pick up your dry cleaning. Again, convenience is paramount to good dry cleaning and the hallmark of Southside Cleaners.