Amelia Casablanca Dress

This is an Amelia Casablanca wedding gown that we cleaned. These pictures of the dress were taken just before it went home to its owner (in fact you can see the garment bag ready to be zipped around the dress). She was thrilled when she picked it up. Unfortunatly I don't have any clear before shots available.



This dress required a lot of individual attention. All of the visible details had to be covered or removed, and then replaced and uncovered after cleaning. Also, the hoops inside had to be carefully removed and replaced.

Best Dry Cleaners in Metro Detroit, Again!

Yesterday I found something pretty cool while I checking on a couple of things. Janet Davis Cleaners was voted 2008 Best Dry Cleaners in Detroit in the Metro Times' The Glory of Capitalism - People's Poll. The funny part is that nobody from the magazine called to let us know, we had to find out on our own. The same thing happened last year when we were voted Best Dry Cleaners in Detroit by citysearch.com.

Thank you to everybody who voted for us and more importantly thank you to everybody who visits our stores in Berkley and Bloomfield or is on our home pickup & delivery service.

For more information on Janet Davis Cleaners and the services we offer, please visit our website!

Two Old Dresses

Today i have two older dresses that we cleaned. Unfortunately I wasn't able to snap any before pics because we got to work just as soon as they came in. The dress to the left is a vintage garment from the 1940's. The challenges with this dress were the inside seams not all being finished off and a couple of yellow 'age' spots. Typically these spots were not visible when the garment was stored away and consist of either a sugary substance or an oil/grease spot (such as from your hands). As you can see this dress cleaned up nicely and with proper handling didn't pose any major difficulties to our experienced staff.

This dress is a 1960's Wedding Dress. If you look closely at the dress you can see that it isn't solid pink, but rather white and pink striped. The difficult part about this dress is that it is actually a white dress with hand painted pink stripes. Upon testing with traditional cleaning methods we quickly determined that dry cleaning or wet cleaning under normal circumstances would quickly revert this to a white dress with no stripes. We were able to come up with a method to both clean the dress and preserve the garments original look. This vintage garment restoration was made possible by our diverse experience with wedding gowns. 

For more information about vintage garment restoration or anything we can do for you, please visit our website.