Do Any of You Starch Your Shirts?

[contactme_11]

Do any of you starch your shirts? If so, how often? Spray starch or dipped?

 

[macuser3of5]

No, not because I necessarily feels it destroys shirts, but because I a) am lazy and b)don't see much of a return on time spent. Also, it seems to make the fabric a bit itchier.

 

[edmorel]

I Magic Size my shirts.

 

[Manton]

Never. Every once in a while -- maybe 1 out of 200 times or less -- I will get one back from the laundry with residual starch, and I dislike wearing it.

 

[a tailor]

my wife uses spray starch on my shirts. even though they are cotton/poly she says they iron up easyer and better.

 

[JayJay]

I iron while damp. I stopped using starch years ago.

 

[yachtie]

I used to

, but I've seen the light and don't do it anymore

. To tell the truth, even unstarched, they hold up pretty well over the course of the day.

 

[life_interrupts]

I've always starched my shirt (light at the cleaners), especially the thinner fabrics even though I know it ruins the tensile strength of the yarn. I do press them with only steam and a light spritz of spray starch and find myself doing that more and more.

 

[Artisan Fan]

Never.

 

[Connemara]

Originally Posted by edmorel

I Magic Size my shirts.

My mother bought me a can of that the other day. I laughed.

 

[imageWIS]

Never. I don't even send my shirts to the cleaners. I wash them all at home and personally iron them each, one by one. Also, I don't wear shirts that often, so its that much of a pain for me.

Jon.

 

[MunnyGuy]

I will use spray starch on older shirts I just won't throw away. On a newer, higher quality shirt....NEVER!

 

[Henry Boogers]

Originally Posted by imageWIS

Never. I don't even send my shirts to the cleaners. I wash them all at home and personally iron them each, one by one. Also, I don't wear shirts that often, so its that much of a pain for me.

Jon.

Same here, except I do them two by two.

In all seriousness I rarely use starch.

 

[Cantabrigian]

Originally Posted by yachtie

I used to

, but I've seen the light and don't do it anymore

. To tell the truth, even unstarched, they hold up pretty well over the course of the day.

+1

 

[JR88]

Originally Posted by imageWIS

Never. I don't even send my shirts to the cleaners. I wash them all at home and personally iron them each, one by one. Also, I don't wear shirts that often, so its that much of a pain for me.

Jon.

+1, except for the part about not wearing shirts.