Here, in South Florida, no matter how much you think you can trust a Dry Cleaner to get your kilts clean and pressed... Dont Trust Him, be a drill sergeant and get serious with the guy, that is the biggest point I can make here in this post.

OK, here's what has happened, two of my favorite kilts,
Black Watch Economy Kilt from Celtic Croft (50poly/50wool)
St. Patrick Philabeag Kilt from Celtic Croft (50poly/50wool)
have both just been put in the trash.

Why

Two reasons
1. Freakin Dry Cleaners down here didn't know what they were doing at all
2. My lack of knowledge on keeping a Kilt clean, pressed, and well maintained

I work in an Irish Pub, I am a barback, and I wear kilts to work. They make my job fun and a bit more exciting when the nights get wild.

I have found that I need kilts that I can wash and press myself (Stillwater kilts and Sport Kilts) being that working in a bar and restaurant atmosphere gets them dirty and 'disheveled' more easily.

The Dry Cleaners I went to, well I was 'too nice' and forgiving with the guy and I could sense signs from the first time that he was 'messing with me'. Now, he can lose my business.

I have tried repairing the kilts myself, but the fabric is too beat up and disheveled that there's no hope, they have been stretched and yanked and darted in too many ways to count.

I would like to point out that 'Joseph' the lead kilt-maker at Celtic Croft, is the guy I will be relying on to get one of my kilts fixxed up, the sizes are all wrong on it and it needs to just be 'shrunk down'.

Lesson here, I learn by doing, Dry Cleaners can't, Friggin get on their case about anything and everything you see wrong with the kilt, It's their job to get it right.