Spending a day at Meurice Garment Care, one of the best dry cleaners in New York City, is like watching detectives at work. Owner Wayne Edelman receives about one thousand garments a day...Full story >

 

 

Considering you've sweat through all of your clothes this week, it's no wonder why that stroller needs a scrubbing. Spilled juice, some tears and plenty of other unmentionables have graced its surface.

 

Give your pram a pick-me-up: Meurice Garment Care will pick up and clean your Bugaboo, Maclaren or other model, and deliver it looking pretty darn good. Not only is this dry cleaner dad-tested (the president put his own baby carriage to the test), but it uses an environment-friendly process.

 

So your stroller will be clean and green.

Some brides are concerned that they have to get their dress cleaned right away, and ask the cleaner to pick it up at the wedding, according to Wayne Edelman, the owner of Meurice Garment Care in New York City, which works on about five hundred wedding dresses each year...Full story >

 

 

Sometimes the smartest move (like when you've got a super-tough stain, delicate fabric or pricy outfit) is to get help from the pros, such as Wayne Edelman, owner of Meurice Garment Care in Manhasset.

Best Stain Remover Meurice Garment Care [meuricegarmentcare.com]. Stars trust their red-carpet-wear to this 57-year-old family-run cleaner, which wet-cleans whenever possible to avoid sensitivity to chemicals. They can remove grass stains from a baby's cashmere sweater for $13.90, or clean a boy's ring-bearer suit for $21.63.

My Fabvorite Things
Celebrity manicurist Deborah Lippman:

"Meurice, at Unviersity Place, is a fabulous dry cleaner. If you have handbags or clothing that you care about, send them there. Things come out like new."

Tailor, Meurice Garment Care
Mercedes, the tailor at Meurice, hates to say no. A bride recently brought in her great-grandmother's wedding dress, and Mercedes was able to restore the bodice, duplicate the beading, and re-create the rest of the garment. As for the rip in your suede jacket—when you get it back, you won't be able to find the repaired spot. Hemming pants: $15.

Wayne Edelman, the owener of Meurice Garment Care, a New York cleaners with a cult following, offered to demystify the complexities of the shirt-laundering business for me...Full story >

The rich are more paranoid than the rest of us, which...may also explain why clients of Meurice Dry Cleaners (also in New York) can FedEx their clothes from anywhere in the world so Meurice can clean and FedEx them right back. Cost to send and clean a suede jacket? About $150. (The service has clients as far away as Rome.)