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Originally posted by taxwonk
The Wonk Princess has recently acquired a couple of shirts that require laundering and pressing. I took her shirts to the laundry with mine and was shocked to find out that they charge about 2.5 times as much to do women's shirts as men's.
Mrs. Wonk has been in a wash and wear or dry clean kind of wardrobe place, so I haven't encountered this before. I am curious, is this a general phenomenon? Is it yet another way in which the business world favors (unfairly) the penile-packing? Or am I being...
(Get ready for it)
...taken to the cleaners?
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Generally, women's shirts to launder and starch/press are twice as much. That's in the burbs as well as the city. I agree with the other poster about the buttoning thing and the extra money I've been told that also. If you notice when they run those shirt starch launder specials it excludes women's shirts. I went through a Brooks Brothers phase and the cleaning fees were outrageous.
This twice as much fee applies to women's vs. men's clothes in general. Men's clothes are better constructed with better materials and last twice as long and women's clothes are basically disposable and twice as much in cost. Sucks to be us.
