Ironing clothes

Admittedly, I don't have to dress up too often, so I'm curious. Do people have to iron a lot of their dress clothes anymore? Or are most dress clothes wrinkle free?

 

I don't iron, but dry clean most of my shirts for work. I ironed for years and hate it. Dry cleaning is pretty cheap and I don't have to mess with the iron and don't have to ask my wife to do it (she hates it too). Only costs maybe $1.25 a shirt and they come out crisp and clean like a new shirt.

 

All of my brown khakis need to be ironed. All of my black pants do not need to be ironed.


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No ironing for me. I buy wrinkle free. If it's a little wrinkled I can throw it back in the dryer for a few minutes and it will come out just fine. I also use a Dollar General knock off of Downy Wrinkle Releaser spray that works great.

I wear Khaki's and a collared shirt to work, that's about as dressed up as I like to get.

 

Depends. I travel every week, wear dress shirts, dress slack and often a sports jacket for work daily. Most of my shirts/slacks will get an ironing. My exception is 100% cotton shirts, they go to the cleaners. Most of my clothes are 'wrinkle resistant' But this is somewhat the expectation of my level, employer expectation and level of clients I work with.

 

My dress clothes are relatively new (2-3 years old max) and they are about half/half wrinkle free or not. Problem with wrinkle free shirts from my experience is the build of them (seem to be made for a big pot bellied guy given my arm and neck measurements)... If I could find some slimmer fitting wrinkle free clothes I'd be in heaven.

That said, I have never touched an iron. Wear the shirts a few times then it is off to the dry cleaners. Another perk of having to wear a white coat at work is the fact that your shirt can be horribly wrinkled and no one would even know.

 

I spend the extra money on wrinkle free cloths. Seems like they always come at a premium price but I am not ironing!

 

I've found a lot of wrinkle free slim fit shirts at Macy's and TJ Max (Ok...my wife does :D). Then again, I'm a little small (5'10"/160lbs). Could be a regional thing I suppose.

Anything I own that can't be settle using the steamer in our dryer gets dry cleaned. My wife still irons her clothes, but my dress clothes get steamed or dry cleaned. I won't mess with it.

 

I have 0 clue on how to iron. When I was in college I always had my roomate or girlfriends do it. After college it's either been cleaners or girlfriends.
I tried to use an iron once and that shirt went in the trash.

 

I will say that the shirts I do iron look a lot better than the ones I put in the dryer or are wrinkle free.


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I dress business causual for work (khakis and button up shirt or polo).

I never iron since I buy clothes which are wrinkle free as long as I pull them out of the dryer immiately.

 

I iron all my dress cloths. Tried of wasting the money with dry cleaners and having them constantly breaking buttons or ironing wrinkles into my cloths Once a month or so I'll pull out the ironing board and catch up on bow hunting shows while I iron. Big savings each month on dry cleaning.

 

I iron a lot. I don't mind it that much.

 

So, for the guys who iron, how much time would you say you spend each week ironing?

 

Both, naturally dry cleaned items should come back pressed. The majority of my dress and work cloths are' wrinkle free" and for the most part like it was stated above if they are hung and handled hot from the dryer they look good without pressing. However we do have iron board and iron handy in the laundry room for those that aren't.

 

Less then 30 minutes on avg.

 

I can't remember the last time I ironed something. It either comes from the dry cleaner pressed, or I get it out of the dryer as soon as it is done.

 

There is a time and a place for both ironing and dry cleaning... depends on your schedule and the condition of the clothing chosen for said event. Most of my "nice" clothing is washed, shook out and hung dry. Most cases limited wrinkling will occur.

 

I was spending half to a full hour a week or so before I started taking everything to the dry cleaner. I value my time at more than what I was paying the drycleaner and I don't really want to have conversations with my wife about getting my stuff ironed (that's kinda like buying a vacuum for Christmans IMHO) so I let them deal with it now.

 

I iron my work shirts on occasion. They usually last 2-3 wash cycles before needing to be ironed again in order to gain the pleats necessary to look good on the job.