4/4/2023 0 Comments The laundry guy storeBut I would still send my suits to the dry cleaner, just because I want to press them. All the plastic bags, wire hangers, I mean, it's Joan Crawford's nightmare. Four days later, you get back in the car, try to dig for that slip, pay an obscene amount of money. The thing about going to the dry cleaner is you have to put the clothes in a bag, carry them to the car, get in the car, drive to the dry cleaner, get out of the car, lug them in, get them all logged in, get the slip, put it in your wallet, go back to the car, go back home. So I started telling customers, ‘Well, you can wash it and here's how.’ It led me down the path of what is dry cleaning doing? I already washed a lot of things just for the practical side, because I didn't want to have to go to the dry cleaner. So I was going to counteract that right off the bat. I was not thinking about toxin free, I will tell you, I was thinking about one of the biggest arguments that people have when they go to buy something is they think they have to dry clean it and they don’t want to have to do that. It was a store full of designer vintage, and I carried a few laundry products. And then, nine years ago, I opened my store and it was called Mona Williams, named after Mona. I’ve worked for Niemann Marcus and Nordstrom. That got me thinking about the conservation of it because you want that stuff to last another 100 years. Mona von Bismarck, Mona Williams, when she was named best dressed woman in the world in 1933, left her entire wardrobe to the University of Kentucky. Through high school I was really into clothes and went to college, and wanted to go into fashion and ended up getting into textiles. When I turned three, Santa brought me a toy washing machine and it was incredible. Patric: One of my earliest memories is handing my granny clothespins to put clothes on the clothesline and I fell in love with laundry. Megan: Welcome to the podcast Patric, I am so excited to have you! So can you tell me a little bit about your history and how you came to write Laundry Love?
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