It’s happened to everyone, you get a new pair of pants or shirt and no sooner have you sat down for your daily coffee when, oops, there it goes all over your lap. “But these pants were advertised as ’stain-resistant’”. Well if you’ve ever wondered if those stain resistant slacks are as advertised Susan Koeppen of ‘The Early Show’ decided to find out.

For clothes that are advertised as stain-resistant they are supposed to be able to resist staining on contact. Many new clothing lines are showing up from different clothing makers such as Dockers and Van Heusen. Although your best dry cleaners will be able to lift most stains, sometimes there are stains that just won’t lift so assisting them in the pre-spotting process with stain resistant clothes can help fight against those dreaded stains.

In order to put the stain-resistant clothes to the test Hannah Storm, Koeppens co-anchor, smeared a number of different substances onto a trench coat that she was wearing that was being advertised as ’stain-resistant’. Among the substances were coffee and O.J. Unbelievably the substances didn’t stain the coat and just wiped right off.

Wanting to put the stain resistant garments through an even further test, next they smeared a number of different substances ranging from ice cream to pizza liberally on the front of the clothes they were wearing. However they found a different reaction this time in that most of the substances not only stained the garments but didn’t even come out in the wash. Basically their findings were that although the stain resistant garments did really well with liquids such as coffee and O.J. they didn’t do so well with oil based stains and other substances with heavy dies. But luckily for you Sir Austin has your back! (or front depending on the stain). We pride ourselves at Austin Cleaners on a great pre-spot. In short when you bring your clothes to Austin Cleaners if the stain can be lifted it will! Oil-based stains such as grease are easily separated from fabric during the dry cleaning process so if you ever find yourself in a bind just call on Sir Austin and he will be there to the rescue!

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