I want to have my cake and eat it too

[MBreinin]

Embrace the domestic. You are missing out on some of the best sartorial pleasures!

I love shining shoes. I don't love ironing, but I do it so often that I can get a shirt done in 5 minutes.

Either that, or find a laundry and a shoe-shine guy.

Mike

 

[Jay]

It is very easy to have these services performed by a dry cleaner and shoe repair shop/shoe shiner. Some dry cleaners can even perform shoe shining services; two birds with one stone. It may not be the best job, but it is better than looking shabby.

 

[Ich_Dien]

Originally Posted by Man Of Lint

When Marie Antoinette said, 'Let them eat cake,' did she mean McCain Deep 'n Delicious cake with the see-through dome

Pedants corner No. 45647 in an ongoing series:

She didn't say that.

 

[F. Corbera]

Originally Posted by Ich_Dien

Pedants corner No. 45647 in an ongoing series:

She didn't say that.

Let's wait until TC (Houston) weighs in.

He was there.

 

[patrickBOOTH]

Originally Posted by kermitkebab

I pay $1.30 a shirt locally here on Long Island. Maybe 40 shirts a month. Sometimes they offer a discount. And yes, they are making money. Just put in all new machinery. Man, they can do a shirt in nothing flat. Family business. Nice people.

Other than that just learn to do the work.

I pay $27 per shirt. Each one takes approximately 2 days.

 

[m.gway]

Originally Posted by SamSpade

Haha, always a pleasure to get some dose of tough (but witty) SF love

in stitches is pretty realistic - that's kind of what I'm doing now, having a lot of suits, to spread the damage around,although a better solution would be to have fewer suits, more carefully picked and cared for. Maybe one day, after I teach myself calculus.
Thankfully, the super polished look is not for me anyway, and also thankfully, I work in academia where just wearing real shoes, pants and shirts seems to be sprezz, so the bar is pretty low. There is a sweet disheveled spot between polished and standard academic disaster, which I hope will be possible to hit by just stocking up on enough stuff to keep the hobo look at bay

.


What are you doing in academia that is destroying your clothing?

 

[Usul]

Originally Posted by MBreinin

Embrace the domestic. You are missing out on some of the best sartorial pleasures!

I love shining shoes. I don't love ironing, but I do it so often that I can get a shirt done in 5 minutes.

Either that, or find a laundry and a shoe-shine guy.

Mike

Well, there it is; marry MBreinin.

 

[MBreinin]

Originally Posted by Usul

Well, there it is; marry MBreinin.

He better have some nice clothes I can borrow.

 

[SamSpade]

Originally Posted by m.gway

What are you doing in academia that is destroying your clothing?

Good question! Maybe I'm too anal to begin with, and a measures of sloppiness will bring me to the level of just right. In any case, all I do all day is sit, shift on a chair, rub my elbows on the desk, wave to other people in the hallways - hard labor

, then go , home and lay on the couch (suit still on), and hand around the house, prepare a drink or a snack (picking up a few dog hairs in the process), and then plopping the suit on a chair (rather than brush it and hang it), which also often results in wearing the same suit a few days in a row - just because it's right there, next to the bed

.

So, overall, nothing too destructive, but the cumulative effect of the above lazy bum practices makes all my of my suits decidedly non-crisp

. Oh, and I've already given up on ironing most shirts (OCBDS).

Overall, I like the idea of just hiring a housekeeper

. Esp, a hot one

 

[Klobber]

Originally Posted by SamSpade

This is surely childish, but that's exactly the kind of problem I have: I enjoy nice clothes as much as the next guy here, no question (basic, classic, conservative style). The problem is, I hate taking good care of my clothes - shoe polishing, brushing, ironing, etc. - UGH! Unfortunately, I can't afford a butler, and it ain't 1950 no more to outsource these operations to the missus, so I wonder what to do:

1) Continue treating nice clothes like crap thereby causing their premature death
or
2) Think of alternative style options -->if so, what are the options for a lazy bum who doesn't want to look like one?

Well you are just like me with one exception I cant stand a non-crisp shirt or pair of trousers (so I do ironing). Its only stuff, I wear my clothes to trash em. Most of my clothes get ruined because I smoke and little holes appear. Im so mistreating I accidently put a suit in a washing machine with the obvious results

 

[RSS]

Originally Posted by Ich_Dien

She didn't say that.
She reportedly said ... "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche."

Now I was at least 30' away at the time but I swear I heard (post translation), "Up theirs with a lawn mower." What can I say ... she was advanced for her time.

 

[lasbar]

Originally Posted by Ich_Dien

Pedants corner No. 45647 in an ongoing series:

She didn't say that.

True...

She never said that but something in the same vein..

 

[JamesX]

Originally Posted by kermitkebab

Is that what you pay yourself? I figure my time is worth $200 an hour. Takes me maybe 15-20 min to iron and starch a clean laundered shirt. Let's see - that works out to about $56.66 a shirt. I think I'll stick with the dry cleaner.

That is a very flawed logic. You are not getting paid on your time at home. Unless you are paid 24-7. So the time you spent ironing in no way takes away from your income. You are not getting a deal and earning more money by not ironing. You are simply spending extra money.

 

[ktrp]

Surely some SF member in NY would be willing to handwash and iron mr. booth's shirts for $25/per.