Before dry cleaning, clothing was washed by dressing up a phalanx of backyard laundry scarecrows just before thunderstorms. Today's deal lets you do away with sopping strawmen and clean your clothes the new-fashioned way—with science: for $12, you get $25 worth of cleaning services at Peerless Cleaners. This Groupon is good for 11 locations throughout the greater Fort Wayne area. Several locations offer a drive-up, drop-off option so that customers can avoid harsh winter weather or bounty hunters in hot pursuit.

Peerless Cleaners has been cleaning the clothes and textiles of Northeastern Indiana with expert experience and attention since 1915, and many of its knowledgeable employees draw on more than 20 years of professional experience as they shampoo, condition, and blow-dry your wilted wearables. When dry cleaning your pants ($5.98), two-piece suits ($12.62), shirts ($2.37), or skirts and sweaters ($6.47), Peerless never uses recycled solvent in its dry cleaning process, ensuring that your garments do not get possessed by the vengeful spirits of clothes past. Every garment is inspected before cleaning for missing buttons and tears, as well as valuables left in pockets, such as misplaced murals and middle children. The cleaners will triple-inspect garments again after cleaning to avoid seven years of bad luck. Once fully fluffed, each garment either chills on a type of hanger that best holds the shape of the fabric without making any impression marks or is folded attentively to prevent wrinkles. A tracking system and emails will keep you updated on the status of your clothes. This Groupon can also be used for laundry, bedding, drapery/upholstery, wedding dresses, and area rugs.

Peerless Cleaners also supports the community with initiatives such as Coats for Kids, through which Peerless has collected more than 25,000 coats in the past nine years. Also on its activism agenda is Cinderella Dress Day, during which Peerless Cleaners collects prom dresses, distributes them to girls in the area who can't afford one, and cleans them for a nominal fee. Make the world a better place and look impeccably dressed doing it with today's Groupon to Peerless Cleaners.

This Groupon will be available for redemption starting October 11, 2010.