How Many Shirt Wearings Per Ironing?

[Cantabrigian]

Originally Posted by zjpj83

yuck, you don't wash a shirt after each wearing?
It is beyond me how someone could participate in a clothes forum but not feel the need to wash a shirt after each wearing...

 

[chobochobo]

Pretty much the only reason I hire my cleaning lady is to iron my shirts (cleaning the bathroom is the other 'only' reason). Worth every penny.

 

[odoreater]

Originally Posted by zjpj83

yuck, you don't wash a shirt after each wearing?

Nope - as someone posted on the Body Consciousness forum - "honest sweat does not smell."

I've never had a problem with wearing shirts twice before having them cleaned when I wear an undershirt.

 

[Tarmac]

to tell you the truth some people seem to just sweat less or have very dry skin (read: white people), which I could possibly conceive would not have to wash a shirt after wearing it. So I'm not gonna tell you it's necessarily YUCK like aportnoys collar on pg 1 (resized for maximu effect) as for myself, there is no way in hell I could do that. I am a greaseball. The undershirt area is not the issue, the issue is the collar. I wore a white shirt for 4 hours at a wedding and i had to pretreat the collar with stainstick and soak it in oxyclean after I took it off.

 

[imageWIS]

2 points:

1) Wash the shirt every time. Period. You sweat and the shirt gets dirty. It's really a sanitary issue. If you don't want to iron every time then either buy non-iron shirts (I know, I know) or find an excellent laundry services that will wash (not dry clean) the shirts and iron them by hand.

2) Own enough shirts where:

A) You rotate enough of them, thus they will last quite a few years
B) You have enough of them all pressed and hanging in the closet to last at least 1 ½ weeks worth of wearing before you have to wash or iron the shirts.

Jon.

 

[Luc-Emmanuel]

Originally Posted by gdl203

That's why our cleaners come every Saturday to drop off the clean stuff and pick up the dirty laundry bags. That's also a new job created right there

yeah, you know where I live: no one would want to do that job. Damn lazy bastards are better off welfare.

!luc

 

[imageWIS]

Originally Posted by Luc-Emmanuel

yeah, you know where I live: no one would want to do that job. Damn lazy bastards are better off welfare.

!luc

Ernest?

Jon.

 

[Artisan Fan]

I only wear my shirts once and then I iron the myself. In the summer months, I wear polo shirts 3-4 times a week. My shirts have thin cotton so the ironing is fairly easy.

 

[Joel_Cairo]

Originally Posted by Luc-Emmanuel

no one would want to do that job.
here in the states we have a Comprehensive Immigration Reform bill you might be interested in. NWT, we're not using it. Paypal only please.

 

[gdl203]

Originally Posted by Luc-Emmanuel

no one would want to do that job
Actually, I doubt it. The delivery guy seems pretty happy with the $3 tip he makes for every drop-off. I cannot imagine he makes less than $100 in tips only every Saturday

 

[NoVaguy]

Originally Posted by whacked

(considering that many SFers' wardrobes contains dozens of them)

this doesn't matter, if you think about it. the number of shirts you own would be irrelevant towards the number of times you iron, assuming you wash and iron a shirt after each wearing.

 

[kitonbrioni]

Once and only once.

 

[bachbeet]

arnach: Kind of Blue is great music, period. Whether ironing or anything else.

As for the idea of wearing an unwashed shirt, never have done that. At least with dress shirts and especially not at work. I have woken up in a woman's bed and put on the same dress shirt from the night before but that's an entirely different matter.

In short, I agree with those who would not wear an unwashed shirt to work. I also agree that the comparison to suits is flawed.

BTW, I probably would not have bothered to reply to this thread had it not been for the chance to praise Miles's great music.

 

[Manton]

Originally Posted by gdl203

Not 100% sure but I believe shirts are $1.75 or $2 for normal service and $3.50 for hand press

$3.50 for hand press is outstanding. Doubly so in Manhattan.

 

[zjpj83]

Originally Posted by Manton

$3.50 for hand press is outstanding. Doubly so in Manhattan.

Yeah, my guy is $5, and he's a hole in the wall uptown.