Dry cleaning ought to be tax deductible for white collar employees, as it is practically necessary without saying so, esp. for job interviews.
Their rules..... you gotta press your clothes..... at your own expense and trouble... not our problem
It is who you are, not what you wear!
(Now to be fair they would probably say, if you dressed like you do on weekends you would treat each other like you do on weekends and you have to be better than that here. Professoional dress = Professional respect.)
Dress Shirts: What Is In Fashion?
The more buttons it has, the more it is in fashion?
The harder it is to iron (the little pleat in the back), the more it is in fashion?
The more it costs, the more it is in fashion?
The more buttons you have to unbutton and button to put it on, the more it is in fashion?
I'm dyspraxic and I cannot iron - I just can't hold the thing properly and I don't know where to put myself in relation to everything else or how to put the item of clothing on the ironing board the correct way....
I asked my Occupational Therapist if I could have lessons as I'm 27 and I still can't do it because my dyspraxia gets me all jumbled up.
I did ask my mum to teach me when I was younger but she said I didn't have the capacity and it would be too dangerous for someone like me. I think she might be right!
I generally wear clothes that I don't have to iron now but I know that if you work in certain environments this is not an option!
Breeze - you took the words right out of my mouth! All of them.
So, what she said!
And
all the rest of us wear clothes that don't need ironing.
I maintain that ironing should be banned, on the grounds that it adds unnecessarily to global warming.
Think of all the resources we use up in the mining of raw materials; manufacturing of irons and ironing boards; transportation to warehouses, shops and then to our homes; and then the use of all that electricity -
just so that our clothes can start the day flat.
Of all the useless endeavours that human beings have invented, surely that has to be almost the pinnacle of stupidity?
Except for Marcia, of course, as it provides useful therapy for her!
What about one of those steamer machines? You hang up the shirt and run the steamer down the garment to remove wrinkles. Stores use them. I think I could still burn myself on it though.
I've been lucky enough to mostly work in areas where ironing was unnecessary - now I own an iron but can't remember when I last used it. It does go hand in hand with the necktie issue - if people can't treat each other professionally at work, I doubt an archaic 'uniform' code is really going to help.
There is a very large, succesful supermarket frozen food chain in the UK (Iceland) who have outlawed neckties in the office. Meanwhile, I turned down a job working with potentially violent school pupils with special educational needs because they insisted I do the job with a handy noose round my neck. I also got flack at, of all places, an nominally eco-conscious commune for continually wearing loose, unironed, cotton trousers and t-shirts. Not creased and wrinkled - they were dried on a line immediately after washing and were simply not 'crisp'.
I'm staggered that we still, broadly speaking, as a society, place any value at all on outer appearances - but I do notice than on the few occasions I'm required to wear a suit, the attitude of shop assistants (for example) is noticeably more deferential.
I know a teacher of special ed who always wore a clip-on tie because one kid tried to choke him.
Don't get into the habit of dry cleaning your clothes, or your kids will come to expect Mommy always dresses up like that, :-)
Why aren't you buying permanent press? Hang them up before they are all the way dry
I pack wrinkle spray for travel. You just spray it on the garment and run your hand down it to smooth the fabric and it takes the wrinkles out.
I am not sure how permanent press works. Maybe I am running them too long in the dryer.
Are those pants only or do they have permanent press shirts too?
I asked mom why she never taught me to iron (she taught me to use washer, clean, cook) and she said everything is permanent press
Maybe those funny artificial fiber pants - the ones you know are not natural just by feeling them - are permanent press?
I don't know my fabrics very well.
I am not sure how permanent press works. Maybe I am running them too long in the dryer.
Are those pants only or do they have permanent press shirts too?
They definately sell permanent press shirts which you can get in a variety of textures. Read the labels. A dryer's "permanent press" setting minimizes wrinkles in perm press clothing by using a regular temperature to start and then has a "cool down" period at the end, where it gradually reduces the temperature.
I should have said that, for any kind of fabric, (perm press or not) the best way I've found is to BE THERE when the clothes are about dry or right when the dryer stops to hang them up immediately. Which is why dryers often have buzzers.
It also helps to group similar weight clothes in the dryer load so they dry at the same rate. Such as all shirts instead of shirts and towels. If you're stuck drying stuff at a laundromat, then you'll have to keep grabbing the lighter stuff from the dryer as it gets dry.
I hang up my husband's shirts to dry and they still need to be ironed. Those knit shirts don't have to be ironed if I hang them to dry and put them in the clothes dryer for about 10 minutes to soften then and hang them up right away after.
Some people just hate ironing. I just hate shaving my legs and armpits but I do it or people say yuck and I don't like all the hair either.
Is waxing a better deal than shaving or is it a rip off? Double entendre of the day?
ocampo, when you rip it off, does it hurt?
yes it doesn't but not as much as it hurts when you burn yourself with an iron.