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    With the price of dry cleaning it (most cleaners start by using a standard price for the "skirt", and then add a charge per pleat, which can add up fast) you would probably be able to replace the Stillwater Economy in what you would pay for a few cleanings.

    The Acrylic washes quite well, either by hand, or on the delicate cycle, with no harm to the leather.
    Then as others have said, hang it to dry, straightening out the pleats.

    If you need to press it, the best way is to baste the pleats to maintain their initial placement and PRESS, not Iron.
    Mark Dockendorf
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    My sister knows a guy who takes all of his
    clothes to the cleaners. (Yes he's rich.)
    They don't dry clean everything; they
    put the cotton shirts etc in the regular
    just like us poor folks do.

    The point here is if you just don't want
    the bother of washing your kilt, the
    cleaners can do that without resorting
    to "dry cleaning." Just ask them
    to wash it on "gentle" and press
    it with cool steam.

    It probably won't cost any less than
    dry cleaning.

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