I seem to have seen a clip on TV from Consumer Reports about all of these "dry cleaning substitutes" and none of them worked worth the money, if they worked at all. Also the idea of tumbling a hand-made kilt in a dryer makes me cringe too. A gentle washing (after basting the pleats) always seems like the best thing. Sometimes there ain't no "quick-n-easy" way, (just like getting a quality kilt, we wait, and wait, and wait, not always patiently