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GARMENT PROBLEM PHOTOS:

'Guava' Dress Beading Trim Damage Following Dry Recommended Cleaning
Following recommended dry cleaning, some  of the beading attached to the hem of this 'Guava' dress has partially dissolved and stuck together.

'Guava' Dress Beading Trim Damage Following Dry Recommended Cleaning

'Cruise' Artificial Suede Jacket
Following recommended dry cleaning, this 'Cruise' artificial suede jacket has extensive loss of the synthetic suede coating and the synthetic backing material onto which the imitation suede was attached has now become completely stiff and brittle due to loss of plasticiser due to contact with dry cleaning solvent.  It also shows evidence of cracking and splitting where the material had been folded.

'Carla Zampatti' Black Velvet Trousers
Following recommended dry cleaning, the development of extensive red lint-like effect of the inside of the trousers due to the break out of the polyurethane component of the fabric in what is often described as the 'Fuzzy Spandex' effect.


 
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'Harry Who' Artificial Leather Jacket
Following recommended dry cleaning, this 'Harry Who' artificial leather jacket has now become completely stiff and brittle due to loss of plasticiser from the vinyl artificial leather material due to contact with dry cleaning solvent.

'Medici' top
Loss of colour from the copper coloured metallic sequin-type trim following recommended dry cleaning. 

'Millers' Printed Top
This lady's 'Millers' printed top lost a lot of its white printed pattern following recommended dry cleaning which also contaminated other items in the same dry cleaning load.

Separation of the Fusible Interfacing in a 'Today's Classics' lady's jacket
The fusible interfacing in this lady's jacket has partially separated following recommended dry cleaning producing the characteristic bubbling and blistering on the front panel.

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