Remedy for collar-stay imprint left over from ironing??

Anyone whoo has the answer to this deserves teh nobel prize.

Svenn, are you in London by any chance? I have had horrible experiences with dry cleaners here. They are uniformly bad, and will just nod their head "yeah mate, yeah mate sure" when you give instructions, only to just throw whatever it was you were talking about into the pile with the rest. And I can't count the times my clothes have come back with new stains, after which I was blamed for them. It's shocking. US dry cleaners are no treat, but this.... Rant off.

That said, I've recently been shelling out vast amounts of money for Jeeves. Even if they don't listen to the customer (which they don't), someone back there actually knows clothes and will usually do the right thing without being asked.

Can't help on the original question. I'd slit the collar stay "pockets" with a razor and remove the stays in the future.

Thats two purposes/tasks... so, yes, it might be asking too much.

Having the shirt dry cleaned rather than laundered sometimes helps. The problem tends to be at its worst on fabrics that have some texture to them, the kind of texture that can be knocked down by heavy ironing. I did the dry cleaning thing recently to a charcoal grey twill shirt and it made the imprint about half as noticeable as it had previously been. Haven't tried the lemon trick.

Also, this isn't just limited to situations where the stays are in the shirt. Some cleaners iron so hard that even the sleeve for the stay leaves an imprint.

It may be an extreme measure, but can you have someone unstitch the entire collar, iron it flat, and then resew it?

the best way to get rid of that imprint is for you to actually throw that molatov cocktail and burn the place and everything inside.

That way, you don't ever have to worry about imprints, stains or loose buttons

You are asking if something that Alex Kabbaz wrote regarding shirt care is accurate?

That guy known his beans. You are safe. (and it cant hurt anyway, right?)

I hate dealing with dry cleaners.

My solution is simple, it involves a washing machine and a steam iron, I never have issues with dry cleaners and dont have to pay for their service (or lack there of). The best cleaners in my area charges something like $4/shirt, so that's $120/mo in cleaning shirts....no thanks.

Not something I've tried, but what if you took a clean suede brush and gently roughed up the shiny area? Like you said, it's f-cked, anyway. Please let us know how what you do works.