Dress For Success Indianapolis boutique at 820 North Meridian Street

The annual Send One Suit Week 2012 drive has begun!  Classic Cleaners is going on it’s 10th year partnering with Dress for Success Indianapolis as a year round drop off location and this week we are asking for suit donations from our valued customers. 

During the week of April 16 through April 20, 2012, Classic Cleaners is a donation site for the drive and we are asking our customers to donate suits to benefit Dress for Success Indianapolis.  In return, they will receive a coupon via email for $10 off a $20 or more order of dry cleaning.

The donation should be an interview appropriate full suit which includes pants/skirt and a jacket.  If you choose, you may also include a blouse/shirt to complete the ensemble.  Classic Cleaners will professionally dry clean the suits and donate them to Dress for Success Indianapolis on our customer’s behalf.

Dress for Success’s mission is “To promote the economic independence of disadvantaged women by providing professional attire, a network of support and the career development tools to help women thrive in work and in life”.  

Interviewing for a position can be stressful even without worrying about what to wear.  Dress for Success solves the catch-22 that confronts disadvantaged women trying to enter the workforce: without a job, how can you afford a suit? But without a suit, how can you get a job?

Job-ready women come to Dress for Success by referral only from a range of non-profit organizations. Each client works one-on-one with a highly-trained volunteer Personal Shopper, who helps her select professional attire and also provides support and encouragement as she prepares for her upcoming interviews.

Dress for Success has helped thousands of women get the professional look and self-esteem they need to start fresh and improve their lives. If you have contributed to Dress for Success, we offer our sincere thanks. If you have not yet, please consider donating during this drive. “On average, about 40% of Dress for Success Indianapolis’ annual suit needs are met through S.O.S. – Week donations”.

Year round, Classic Cleaners accepts suits and blouses at any of our 17 Classic Cleaners locations.  Or, you may donate via your route driver if you are part Classic Cleaner’s free pick up and delivery service. 

Please visit the Dress for Success Indianapolis website for more information and to learn about individual and company volunteer opportunities.

While Classic Cleaners dry cleaning professionals weren’t actually in attendance at the November 9th Job Fair at the Hamilton County 4-H Exhibition Center in Noblesville, they had a strong presence at the event. 

That’s because many of the perfectly pressed and starched shirts and freshly pressed business suits worn by the hundreds of job applicants – and the interviewers representing their employers – sported that Classic Cleaners professional “look”.

“In an interview,” according to Virginia Tech’s Division of Student Affairs, “your attire plays a supporting role.  Appropriate attire supports your image as a person who takes the interview process seriously and understands the nature of the industry in which you are trying to become employed.”

Classic Cleaners knows.  That’s why, throughout the year, Classic Cleaners in Noblesville and other locations act as a collection site, accepting interview-appropriate suits and blouses on hangars.  Where needed, the clothes are dry cleaned, then delivered to the Indianapolis Dress For Success boutique.

Career.vt.edu offers important tips about interview clothing:

• Conservative colors (navy, dark green, brown, black)
• Solids, rather than plaids or patterns
• Clean and well-pressed
• No dangling threads or sales tags

At Classic Cleaners, we’re in the business of creating that critical first impression that helps applicants actually land jobs!

 By Reb of the Classic Cleaners blog team

The spotlight certainly shone on the Classic Cleaners table at the September 22 Stepping Out in Style gala, the annual fundraiser for Dress For Success Indianapolis.  This year’s function boasted one of the largest groups of supporters ever, with close to 900 attendees stepping out in “dressed for success” style.

At the gala, Classic Cleaners honored Dress For Success Indianapolis with a generous check.  In August of each year, Classic Cleaners runs a special promotion.  For every dry cleaning order of $20, the company donates $2 to DFSI.  This year’s check of $13,780 represented the sum of those $2 donations!

Dress For Success Indianapolis, in turn, honored Classic Cleaners as its longest business supporter in Indianapolis.  “Your support does not go unnoticed,” commented one of the guests to Classic Cleaners partner Steve Arnold.

While Stepping Out in Style is a very special occasion, the partnership between Dress For Success Indianapolis and

Dress For Success Indianapolis boutique

Classic Cleaners is year-round. Classic Cleaners acts as a collection site, accepting interview-appropriate suits and blouses on hangers. As needed, garments are dry cleaned, then delivered to DFS Indianapolis Boutique at 820 North Meridian.

Classic Cleaners also sponsors Super Sort, the culmination of Send One Suit Week (a clothing collection drive by local businesses, places of worship, and organizations), by providing donors with a coupon for $10 or $20 off a dry cleaning order.

Dress For Success Indianapolis’ Executive Director Barb Ellsworth expressed her gratitude with enthusiasm: “I don’t know what we’d do without Classic Cleaners! Funny, that’s exactly what so many of our indianapolis dry cleaning customers say!

by Reb of the Classic Cleaners blog team

It’s only fitting for the “Best Dry Cleaners in Indy” to have stores and pickup/delivery routes in three of the nation’s “Best Places to Live.” With stores in Carmel, Fishers, and Noblesville, Indiana, you might say Classic Cleaners is in all the right places. 

It’s the right time, too, because:

• Money Magazine’s August issue ranks the town of Fishers #8 on its “Top Ten Best Places to Live” list, citing Fishers’ low unemployment and its affordable housing. Classic Cleaners Store has a store at 11501 Geist Pavilion Road) and one at 9538 E. 126th St. in Fishers, with the  Westfield store (14635 N. Gray Rd.) just at Fisher’s western edge.
  
• Meanwhile, the city of Carmel won the Number 14 spot on the Money Magazine list. The article highlighted Carmel’s arts and leisure opportunities and its outstanding math and reading school test scores. Classic Cleaners has no fewer than five stores in Carmel: 5790 E. 131st St., 14550 Clay Terrace Blvd, 9893 N. Michigan Rd), 12730 Meetinghouse Rd.), and 12560 No. Meridian St..
  
• When it comes to retirement, Noblesville is golden”, writes Tom Spalding in the Indianapolis Star, noting that Noblesville was named to MSN’s Sperling’s Best Places. Another accolade for Noblesville was being finalist for the National Civic League’s All-American City Award.

Wherever you live in and around Indianapolis and its northern suburbs, you can take advantage of Classic Cleaners’ free home pick up and delivery services.  From Fortville on the east to Pittsboro on the west, all the way to Cicero on the north, and down to 42nd Street on the south, Classic Cleaners casts a wide net of customer service.

Since 1985, Classic Cleaners has taken pride in its reputation for high quality dry cleaning and laundry along with its superlative customer service.  With all the awards and praise for Carmel, Fishers, and Noblesville, Classic Cleaners can be proud of the company locations it keeps!

 by Reb of the Classic Cleaners blog team