Son has a few but I don't remember the name brand, machine wash gentle, cool water, gentle detergent, shake out and hang to dry wet. Most important is to use a low spin speed so as not to set any wrinkles as I'm not sure if there's any poly in it. It should wash up well. These jackets arnt designed to wash after every wear.

Your correct, clothing like this is not meant to be cleaned frequently.Once its washed, you will think its ruined. You will find what you think your saving in cleaning, you will end up spending having the jacket professionally pressed. You just cant finish stuff like this using residential irons. Although you can try, but 9 out of 10 times they look like crap, especially once they have seen water and consumer detergent. You could and will experience some percentage of shrinkage, poly or not. Its in expensive enough, so no harm in trying.

Hubby had a microfiber washable travel blazer from either LLBean or TravelSmith. It did fine on the cold setting in our old water-hog TL washer.

BUT ... when I washed it on the COLD setting in our Miele 4842 FL washer, the collar shrank horribly and came out misshapen. The jacket was thus ruined, and we had to toss it. (I was not a happy camper) COLD on our Miele is programmed for 86°F and apparently that is too warm for the interfacing or felt undercollar.

You'll probably be fine if you wash on a very gentle cycle and "No Heat" (a/k/a Tap Cold). Take no chances with the water temperature....that's my advice.

What I love about the few garments we've bought abroad is that most of them give a temperature setting for the wash, especially DH"s wool sweaters. Yay!

Editing to add ----- Years ago, I read that putting a dry cleaners bag over a garment before folding and packing into a suitcase will eliminate wrinkling. I tried it and am a confirmed believer, even with linen dresses. So, if you don't buy the travel blazer, put a dry cleaner bag over your suit jacket, fold the bag and jacket "as one" piece, and you should be fine.

Sounds like you need to go back to the 70s and get a leisure suit! Go to a Goodwill or maybe an estate sale, some guy who lived in a house probably still has a leisure suit in the back of a closet.

Neptune...do you have a problem.

Why do you say that? I lived through 70s even though I was a kid and a tween and as I remember, my father's leisure suit was almost indestructible and mom did wash it in the harvest gold Kenmore, it came out fine. Today, just about any suit that is not a leisure suit requires dry cleaning.

Leisure suits didn't loom large in my life, so I don't see this product through that lens. It's a cheap, perhaps plasticky blazer that will hopefully look good enough to get me through a meal at a special restaurant with my wife and son. Neither of them will judge me, as long as it looks decent. And I doubt that anyone else in the place will care.