Boys' clothes: Ironed? Or fresh from dryer?

[Anonymous]

Iron pants, but without pleat. Never could get those right. Shake out shirts from dryer and hang up, unless really wrinkled, then iron. The blazer usually stays at school, so very likely it is a wrinkly mess with a variety of lunches on it. Lol.

[Anonymous]

Khakis are washed, dried, and folded. Same with polo shirts. Button shirts are sent to cleaners with hubby's shirts. I refuse to iron those shirts, and they look horrible if you don't.

[Anonymous]

I never iron. I hate doing it. My child that attends private school is very particular about his clothing. I taught him how to iron. If he wants it done, he can do it himself. He quickly learned that wearing sweaters over his button downs is a lifesaver I wouldn't let him go to school very wrinkled, but a lot of his khakis wrinkle after he wears them for 15 minutes anyway, so as long as they aren't too bad (and we take them out of the dryer immediately), we don't iron them

[Anonymous]

I have my housekeeper iron all of my child's clothes -- I wash and dry all of my child's clothes. When the housekeeper was on vacation, I just took the clothes out of the dryer and hung them up. I like the ironed look but hate ironing.

[Anonymous]

I have to say that most of you are better organized than I am. If I forget to run a couple of loads the night before there is trouble the next day! There have been days when I've had 4 or 5 children lined up in their underwear waiting for the dryer to get their uniforms (pants/shirts for the boys and jumpers/blouses for the girls) dry enough that they can dress and we can boogie on out the door!

[Anonymous]

Wow you all impressive. I have three kids and work no help with the laundry so lots and lots of wrinkles! But at least their clothes are clean.

[Anonymous]

The question should be if the ironing fairy automagically ironed all your clothes - would you love it?

[Anonymous]

I haven't ironed in five years, ever since I discovered Downy wrinkle releaser spray! Works on any fabric - from silk sweaters to cotton t-shirts. Lifesaver!

[Anonymous]

One day, I looked at my high school boy and told him his shirt would probably look less wrinkled if he HAD slept in it.

He goes to school super wrinkly most days. He does not care. If he did, he would learn to iron.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ironed. Always. And shirts starched. Wrinkle free is not wrinkle free.

+ 1

DS goes to public school and there is no uniform, but I feel that un-ironed clothes make people look unkempt, even if they do not have wrinkles. There is a crispness and freshness to clothes that are ironed and they hang well on the body.

I agree with this completely. Our kids' clothes are always ironed. Most of the time DH does it. DD, 9 years old, irons her own clothes on the weekend, and DS, 5 and a half, irons his own clothes on the weekend. He stands on a chair.

[Anonymous]

Ironing kids clothes? Is this the 1950s? Seriously who has time to iron kids clothes?

[Anonymous]

Wash and dry polos or button down (wrinkle free) shirts and khakis and pull them straight out of the dryer and then hang them up right away. They look fine. No time for ironing.

[pbraverman]

Truisms:

Boys' school clothing is not the same thing as a grown man's dinner suit.

A man should learn how to iron the occasional item of clothing, especially dress shirts.

Corollary: An Oxford cloth shirt is not a dress shirt.

Heat and starch kill cotton. Use both sparingly.

Non-iron shirts get that way because they are treated with formaldehyde. It's the fluoride of the 2010s; how else to explain the election?

A man's socks should never be funnier than he is.

(No charge for all of this important advice.)