Is it difficult to get shirts cleaned?" (Dry cleaning in Baghdad was, in fact, crippled by international sanctions that banned imports of chemicals. A colleague once told me his suit was cleaned with gasoline).
Mr Cox, an advertising photographer whose wife Lynn runs her own dressmaking agency, shares cleaning duties, irons shirts and also cooks a mean pasta.
On the assembly line, 37-year-old Tatyana Naidyonova, an apron covering her Harley-Davidson T-shirt, paused from cleaning a machine with kerosene and agreed.
At the Roadium Open Air Market in Gardena, fledgling entrepreneurs try to survive by selling a mixture of socks, belts and T-shirts, or by cleaning out their garages and hawking their goods like a rummage sale.
Struggling to support families both here and in the Dominican Republic, the athletes' parents put in long hours driving gypsy cabs, stitching shirts in factories and cleaning hotel rooms.
Even though dry cleaning is expensive, I do recommend dry cleaning white shirts.
He made a point of never cleaning the shirt he wore that day.
After squinting at my plain cotton long-sleeved shirts, to confirm that they are women's clothing, I ended up getting charged $7 for cleaning my "female" shirt and not the $3.25 a man would have been charged.
On a recent afternoon, Mr. Miyakawa was dressed in his customary uniform, a white T-shirt and green cargo pants, cleaning up his studio in the Greenpoint Manufacturing and Design Center, part of a former mill complex on Newtown Creek.
With a few dozen other teenagers – looking purposeful in 17 February revolutionary T-shirts – they are sweeping and cleaning, and even painting the kerbstones in precise yellow and black segments.
