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How to Take Care of a Suit Before and After Your Event

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Have a suit-worthy event coming up? We're here to help. Learn more about finding your perfect fitting suit, pressing your suit, storing your suit, cleaning your suit, and more in this suit care guide.

Find Your Fit

While the color and material are important, how your suit fits is arguably the most important piece to how your suit looks on you. To find the perfect fit, you have a couple options.

Buy a Custom Suit

To take that sharp, perfectly fitted look to the next level, consider buying a custom suit for your next event. Brands like INDOCHINO make made-to-measure suits to fit your exact measurements. Purchasing a custom garment is the easiest and most accessible way to ensure a great fit for any suit.

Not only do you save time searching racks and trying on suits trying to find something that fits, but you also get the opportunity to create a unique suit that matches your personal style.

Tailor your suit

If you’ve owned the suit for a while, this is a good time to check to see if it needs any last-minute adjustments or repairs before your event. Many Tide Cleaners also offer alteration and repair services.

Press Your Suit

After you find your suit and make sure it’s the perfect fit, you’ll want to iron out every wrinkle in your jacket and crease your pants just right, especially if you’re traveling to your event and must pack it in a suitcase before wearing it.

We recommend getting your suit professional pressed because dry cleaners know how to care for suits best.

If you’re low on time, your suit doesn’t require professional care, and you want to try ironing it yourself, check out these tips on how to press a suit at home.

If you’re craving that professionally pressed look or you just find your hotel’s iron isn’t working well, get your suit pressed by the experts at Tide Cleaners instead.

Store Your Suit

Once your suit is pressed to perfection, storing it on a sturdy wooden hanger that supports the shape of the suit will preserve that look.

Keeping it inside a garment bag will help keep it dust-free until it’s time to wear it too.

Don’t Forget the Details

While it’s easy to focus entirely on the suit itself, there’s more to your outfit than your pants and jacket. Make sure you care for your dress shirt, including washing and pressing it properly.

Tide Cleaners offers a premium shirt laundering and pressing service to take your look to the next level (and take away some pressure while giving you time back!).

After your dress shirt is properly pressed, have fun with accessories! Select a pocket square and tie or bowtie that coordinate with each other (rather than match) to elevate your look and put your personality on display.

Enjoy Your Event

You’ve put a lot of effort into your look, so wear it confidently! Whether you’re dancing the night away at a wedding, presenting for an important moment, or networking and mingling, enjoy it.

Be Prepared for Stains

Stains always seem to happen when they’re least convenient, so it’s best to prepare ahead of time. Keep a travel stain remover with you to quickly treat any stains on your suit or shirt so you don’t have to miss a beat.

For tough stains or stains on delicate and dry-clean-only fabrics, it's best to take your garment to the dry cleaners as soon as possible.

Dry Clean Your Suit

To keep your suit in its best shape for years to come, clean your suit after your event before returning it to your closet, especially if you wore the suit all day long.

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While you can spot clean small stains and freshen up your suit at home as needed, you’ll need to take your suit to the dry cleaners when it’s ready for a full cleaning.