How do I keep my shirts from wrinkling like crazy?

Whenever I wear dress shirts, they get crazy wrinkled. I've ironed the shirts, gotten them starched (which I think just makes the wrinkles look even worse), and steamed them. I'm not doing anything out of the ordinary, just walking and sitting around. What do you guys do to prevent excessive wrinkling of your shirt throughout the course of the day?

I realize I could just get those wrinkle-resistant shirts, but I just find the fabric to be uncomfortable and the shirt too stiff. Not to mention, they make me sweat more. I'm a sweaty person who doesn't wear an undershirt...go figure. By the way, I wear Borrelli, Charvet, Behar, Truzzi, Varvatos, Hugo Boss shirts. Is it just the fabric they use? The better the less wrinkle-resistant?

Anyway, if there's nothing I can do, I'd rather wear a sweet wrinkled shirt than a crappy unwrinkled one. Any help is much appreciated.

Pull down slightly on the tail when you sit, so you are sitting on it flat as opposed to pressing wrinkles into it with your body. In the car, if I'm wearing a shirt untucked, i unbutton the bottom button and lay it over the lap belt, that way the seatbelt doesn't give a gut line.

Maybe you should try to use fabric softener on shirts so that they won't get wrinkled easily. Just an idea though

I get dressed and then stand completely still all day. Seriously though, I've often thought my shirt was more wrinkled than it actually appeared to other people. Now I don't worry about it, if it gets wrinkled it gets wrinkled. As long as you iron it before wearing it, the wrinkles from normal wear don't look too bad. Un-ironed shirts on the other hand...

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Craig

I suggest considering bespoke/MTO shirts and always choose cloths that are woven a bit heavier and 2x100-120s. Finer yarns wrinkle like crazy, and I avoid them for that very reason. I find Acorn the best performing shirting in this regard.

Do NOT starch shirts. Definitely do NOT use fabric softener. Both are big NO NOs.

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Do NOT starch shirts. Definitely do NOT use fabric softener. Both are big NO NOs.

Why are starch and fabric softener bad for shirts?

Originally Posted by bbaquiran

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Why are starch and fabric softener bad for shirts?

They are harmful to shirting cotton.

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Whenever I wear dress shirts, they get crazy wrinkled. I've ironed the shirts, gotten them starched (which I think just makes the wrinkles look even worse), and steamed them.

BTW, the starch will take several washings to come out completely.

I don't mind the wrinkles.

As I have started to acquire some nicer shirts in my recent move to a business casual office, I have noticed a few things.

The nicer shirts tend to have a bit heavier fabrics and they take and hold a press much easier. They look less wrinkled at the end of the day (especially in areas like the inner elbow) when they are a heavier 100% cotton. Also, it is much easier to iron them...you can have the iron at a good temp and the wrinkles will just dissapear...

A twill will wrinkle less than a broadcloth. It's also easier to iron.

I just wanted to revive this thread because I'm still having this problem which is driving me mad.

I don't starch my shirts. So far, I've had them dry cleaned and pressed, I've washed (no fabric softener) and ironed, and I've also washed and hang dried and then steamed my shirts.

I'm not looking to prevent ALL wrinkling, I just want my shirts to not look like I had picked them out of a pile of crumpled up clothes. One reason is that I am a student, so I am either carrying a backpack or a messenger bag. However, I feel that I am the only one whose shirts are super wrinkly. Another part of the reason, I believe is that I do generate a lot of body heat and tend to sweat, not a lot, but enough so the heat and sweat wrinkle my shirt more. And the fact that I don't wear an undershirt because it would make me sweat even more.

It is not that I am wearing cheap shirts either. In fact, I feel as though some of my cheaper shirts handle wrinkles better, like Varvatos USA, Jos A Bank, and CK. It is my more expensive shirts that get demolished by my body: Borrelli (not so bad though), Truzzi, Charvet, and RLPL (the worst of the bunch).

Are there any washing and or wearing techniques?

fabric softener should fix your problem.if not try a different material.

Choose cotton blends. Blends tend to be more resistant to wrinkles. Also possibly sitting posture. If you slouch or fold your hands across the chest a lot, try not to. Hope that helps.

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I just wanted to revive this thread because I'm still having this problem which is driving me mad.

I don't starch my shirts. So far, I've had them dry cleaned and pressed, I've washed (no fabric softener) and ironed, and I've also washed and hang dried and then steamed my shirts.

I'm not looking to prevent ALL wrinkling, I just want my shirts to not look like I had picked them out of a pile of crumpled up clothes. One reason is that I am a student, so I am either carrying a backpack or a messenger bag. However, I feel that I am the only one whose shirts are super wrinkly. Another part of the reason, I believe is that I do generate a lot of body heat and tend to sweat, not a lot, but enough so the heat and sweat wrinkle my shirt more. And the fact that I don't wear an undershirt because it would make me sweat even more.

It is not that I am wearing cheap shirts either. In fact, I feel as though some of my cheaper shirts handle wrinkles better, like Varvatos USA, Jos A Bank, and CK. It is my more expensive shirts that get demolished by my body: Borrelli (not so bad though), Truzzi, Charvet, and RLPL (the worst of the bunch).

Are there any washing and or wearing techniques?

I'm in the same boat, except not a student with a backpack. I like my sport coats cut fairly slim... so while sitting during the commuting each morning, the body heat and the tighter jacket tends to do a number on the shirt. It's not a "taken from the laundry basket" look, but it's definitely not pressed and polished like it was in the closet. I arrive to work looking like, well, like I've been wearing this shirt for more than 20 minutes.

I stopped letting it get to me. I'm wearing the items as they're meant to be worn and they're going to wrinkle a bit, especially in the elbow and creases. I believe we notice it much more than others do because we're detail oriented. I also believe television and magazines portray an extremely false sense of normality in terms of clothing fit. They're never wrinkled and their pinned/tucked/primped to all hell. That's not real.

If you wear a jacket or bag, you get wrinkles. If you can go a whole day without wrinkling or creasing your shirt, WTF did you do all day? Stand around worried about your shirt?