In the past, there was a balance between dry cleaning and traditional laundry shops. As years passed by, traditional laundry shops began to close down and made way for increasing number of dry cleaning shops.
Nowadays, people usually send their clothes to the dry cleaning shop. This is probably because it is conveniently found all over Singapore. On the other hand, there is only one traditional laundry shop in Singapore hence not many people may be aware of its existence.
For traditional laundry shop, the regular customers are mostly Indian, who usually send their traditional clothes such as dhotis ( men’s garments) and sarees (women’s garments). This is because such traditional clothes require skill and technique to iron. In contrast, for dry cleaning ones, customers are of all races and they usually send casual clothes like shirts, sweaters, skirts.
The major difference between dry cleaning and traditional laundry shop is the price. Prices are much lower for traditional ones as compared to the dry cleaning ones. For example, it costs $2.50 to wash, dry and iron a saree in the traditional ones while it costs around $10 to wash it at the dry cleaning ones.
So, will traditional laundry shop cease to exist one day?
By: Guan Sin Loi
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