My kids are about 10 years older than Jeremy (though at one time they were about 10 years younger), and as far as I know they have never worn an ironed shirt.
Dress shirts cleaned and pressed at the dry cleaner’s, yes, but we don’t even own an ironing board.
Is ironing casual shirts even a thing in 2019?
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I have never worn an ironed casual shirt, and it’s been years since I’ve worn an ironed dress shirt.
It is if you’re my mother-in-law, who irons jeans and her toddler grandkids’ shirts.
I have to iron shirts dried on the clothesline. Never from the dryer.
Many modern dryers have a feature where it will tumble the clothes occasionally after the cycle is finished to keep down the wrinkles.
Yes, indeed. All my shirts are hung after drying. I’m not too particular about a few wrinkles but the beautiful Mrs. Scrooge will sometimes tell me that I can’t wear a shirt until it’s ironed. Takes her about two minutes for a shirt.
Jeremy irons?
At my house, we always iron everything. A habit, I guess.
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I’ve been wearing Hawaiian shirts for close to 20 years, and I’ve always ironed them. They’re all cotton, not the polyester blends, so they wrinkle a lot. I would say that’s about as casual as you can get, but now that I live here, it turns out I am waaaay over dressed for most occasions. Hawaiian shirts are considered business attire.
The groan was for Billybob, but Sheep slipped in there while I was typing.
I iron clothes at least a couple times a week (but more often for my wife than myself). Our kids (college age) are certainly familiar with ironing, but the idea of paying a cleaner to clean and press a dress shirt would be absolutely foreign to them (a suit or something else that is dry-clean-only, sure, but not something that can go in the washing machine).
Most permanent press comes out of the dryer just fine, but sometimes you want to re-wear something before it gets laundered.
I have not ironed anything since my military service 20 years ago.
To me, J’s t-shirt looks shrunk, not wrinkled: he knows so little about ironing that he thinks ironing a shrunk t-shirt could un-shrink it?
I have a few casual shirts that need to be ironed after washing; the placket gets really scrunched up (always in the same spot on a particular shirt, as if they were now permanent), so I give them a quick run-over. Ironically, these shirts were advertised as “no-iron”.
I haven’t ironed anything in about a year, even rather wrinkled linen shirts I wish I had ironed.
Ages ago, when I had a corporate job and wore a jacket, I used to iron the front of the shirt only. For this swift procedure I often couldn’t be bothered to get out the ironing board, so I did it on the floor. One day I unthinkingly put the iron down flat, burning an iron-shaped mark in the living room carpet.
The last year we had a real Holiday Tree, I poured water and bleach into the water container, FORGETTING that we had shimmed it to make the tree stand straight. When we took it down several days later, we had a nice bleach spot on our BRAND NEW carpeting. We went artificial after that little incident.
When I moved to FL in Feb 2015, I wasn’t planning to stay – just look at the house we’d bought, warm up a bit for a few weeks or months, and then return to WI for the summer. So we didn’t bring any household goods or appliances with us. I never went back to WI, so I bought everything new, including an iron and an ironing board. Which I’ve never ever used. One would look at what we wear here now and say we’d been ‘Floridized’.
Andréa, aren’t those bleach spots what decorative planters are for?
Ironing (for a family of 6) was my Saturday chore as a child, and once I left home, I onlly ever used an iron to remove wallpaper paste.
“Andréa, aren’t those bleach spots what decorative planters are for?”
Yes, over the next several years, I camouflaged/covered the area with various items.
Back when I needed to wear dress shirts, I discovered that it took me way too much time to iron them into presentable form: it was clearly more cost-effective to let the professionals do it.
P.S. Over here, there used to be a laundry service not far from us that would iron linens for a flat-rate fee. The odd thing was that they charged the same price (€0,95/piece), no matter whether it was a napkin, placemat, or ten-foot tablecloth (the latter was of course the only item we ever took there). No wonder they went out of business.
The only ironing done in our house is for fabric for sewing – or some reenacting clothing as it is all either cotton or cotton/linen – technically the cotton is incorrect for the period as we are pre the invention of the working cotton gin and it is an expensive fabric in the American colonies, but it serves the purpose of a natural fabric, most people can’t tell, and today linen is the more expensive fabric. (Cotton in the 1700s comes from India. Taxed going from India to England and then taxed again coming from England to the colonies. By the way – the abbreviation on the manifests for cotton was calico – Calcutta cotton.)
I’ve been tempted for days here to make a joke about how “at my age, I *prefer *my shirts wrinkled so they will match my skin.” (Not true, but tempting enough that I’m finally giving in and making the joke; now I can get back to other pressing issues in my life.)