Don’t wait to take your clothes to the dry cleaner, either. If something sits in your clothes or hamper for two weeks, whatever substance you dropped on it (pesto sauce, red wine, butter, mustard, whatever) will have all that time to embed itself into the fibers, making it more difficult for your dry cleaner to extract.
“It’s best to act fast when you have a stain,” Connelly said. “When in doubt, always take it to a professional to fix it.”
Despite all the horrific things Jackson has seen people do to their clothes and all the mistakes he and his colleagues have fixed as a result of these things, he loves working in the industry.
He explained that the most rewarding part of the industry is that they take something dirty, stained and/or spotted and that often looks as if it would be beyond salvaging, process it, clean it, press it and then present it back to the customer.
“And it looks good, right? And that makes everybody feel good. Makes us feel good, and it makes the consumer feel good,” he said.
Our advice? Find a dry cleaner like Jackson, and the next time you spill an entire glass of red wine on your lavender silk dress, get it to that cleaner as quickly as possible.
This article originally appeared on HuffPost.
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