Can pocket be removed on cotton/poly blend shirts?

[Flartchy]

Hi, I'm enjoying the forum. I did have a question:

I hate hate hate pockets on my dress shirts, but it seems that 90% of the ones I see in the average store have them. So most of my shirts have them.

I was excited to read here that on all-cotton shirts a seam-ripper can take care of removal of the pocket and after a wash the thread holes become invisible.

However, all my 100% cotton shirts are in the closet in various states of wrinkledness, while I end up actually wearing the cotton/poly blends because I'm a bachelor and can't be arsed to actually iron the damn things myself. (Nor can I afford to have them dry-cleaned each time.)

SO, my question is: on my cotton/poly blend shirts, will the thread holes disappear after pocket removal as with the 100% cotton shirts that others have reported on?

thx very much

 

[bjornb17]

I've done it with good results.

 

[Flartchy]

Good as in 'absolutely undetectable' or good as in 'almost undetectable?'

thx

EDIT:

Never mind, I just tried it and even without washing it's essentially invisible unless your eye is about 3 inches away and you're specifically looking for it. After a wash I'm betting it will never show.

thx again.

EDIT: And I did it with a Spyderco Delica rather than a seam ripper which has preserved my masculinity.