<p>My H is the only one who irons in our family, but only because he has to look professional at work. I much prefer his weekend wrinkled look. I don’t care if my clothes are wrinkled, or my sheets, or anything else — I reserve my OCD for other things, like carefully folding and categorizing all my underwear. Inside my dresser. Go figure… I really don’t care how others choose to dress, but I would never be able to date a man with ironed creases in his jeans. But then again, he probably would find me way to messy looking! I guess, even at my age, I still associate rumpled with easy-going, creative, artistic, etc, which are the qualities I’m drawn to.</p>
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<p>Here in NYC, white crease lines in the jeans used to be the mark of the provincial, or the older gentleman (the rich type with the perennial tan). Nowadays, jeans are too tight to iron.</p>
<p>“Nowadays, jeans are too tight to iron.”</p>
<p>I might be wrong, but I don’t think you’re supposed to iron them WHILE you are wearing them…</p>
<p>“but I would never be able to date a man with ironed creases in his jeans.”</p>
<p>This could be a whole 'nother thread…little superficial things that would be deal breakers. I’ve heard people say things like they could never kiss someone who bites his/her nails, or they get grossed out by people who blow their nose on cloth handkerchiefs, etc.</p>
<p>Oy, Schmaltz, don’t get me started!</p>
<p>Here you go, Mouse: [Urban</a> Dictionary: Creased Jeans Moment](<a href=“http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Creased%20Jeans%20Moment]Urban”>Urban Dictionary: Creased Jeans Moment)</p>
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<p>Okay… lots of things look better ironed and ironed well. BUT… a lot of those things will look ALMOST as good if you hang them in the bathroom while you take a shower. </p>
<p>I like the ten minute test: “after I’ve worn this for ten minutes, will it make any difference if I iron it?” There are items where the answer to that is “no” (underwear comes to mind)–and those things where the answer is “yes” (collars, cuffs, front plackets, hems).</p>
<p>I use linen napkins (serviettes). I wash them, put them in the dryer–they come out wrinkled. I moisten them and then stretch them flat on my laundry room counter. They dry beautifully crisp and wrinkle free. Much easier than ironing and actually works better. Works for cotton, but not quite as well.</p>
<p>I use that Downy?? dewrinkle spray. hang it up, spray, stretch a little bit, done. HATE, Hate to iron.</p>
<p>Texans never want to be anything like NYC. It was the one place they pretty much all detested.</p>
<p>I iron clothes and still iron my daughter’s button-down shirts that she wears to work – after years of ironing all of their private school uniforms. I don’t iron sheets and don’t need to because I change them every three days and make the bed so tight that a wrinkle wouldn’t dare!</p>
<p>Unfortunately, I commute 1 1/2 hours into work, so the commute (particularly on an un-air conditioned bus) often makes my clothes wrinkly. So one can’t always tell just by looking. </p>
<p>I admire the matching bag and shoes people. I don’t have enough bags to do that, though. I always only have one and then use it till it falls apart and repeat the process.</p>
<p>^^ According to What Not to Wear, bags and shoes SHOULDN’T match!</p>
<p>In colors?</p>
<p>I like my slacks/dress shirts ironed. Cotten tees seem to come out of the dryer just fine–they get folded and put in a drawer anyway. I don’t like to see people whose clothes look like they just crawled out of bed, but I’m not so anal that I iron everything. No to sheets, but yes to pillowcases, no to underwear, jeans, towels, etc. My mother used to iron my fathers undershorts and hankerchiefs. I thought that was so wrong!</p>
<p>I saw an episode of Tyra in which a 16-year old girl who was obsessed with looking perfect was forced to walk down a NYC street in an ugly and mismatched outfit. She didn’t even make it a block before she was crying and almost catatonic. If you obsessive ironers here had to go out looking rumpled, how would you react?</p>
<p>My bride, from South America, does this. I’ve gotten her out of the habit some, but back in her home it’s commonplace.</p>
<p>Although I have a few tops I iron, I don’t do it often. Arthritis makes it painful to iron now, but I never liked it. Mom used to make me iron clothes and pillow cases, but never sheets. We sprinkled with water, threw in a basket, and ironed while still damp.</p>
<p>For undershirts and t-shirts that will be folded, take out of the dryer one at a time, and keep tumbling the rest. Lay flat and use hand to wipe out any wrinkles. Stack shirts flat, one at a time, until all are out of the dryer. Let cool while lying flat (very important step). Fold.</p>
<p>My jeans, slacks and tops (including t-shirts that are hung), come out of the dryer one at a time and are hung immediately, usually while still a tiny bit damp. Use hand to smooth out any wrinkles. If you want creases in pants/jeans, fold with a crease and lay flat, letting them cool before hanging. </p>
<p>H sends his work shirts and slacks to the laundry for light starch, ironing and hanging.</p>
<p>He likes his underwear folded; mine just gets thrown in the drawer.</p>
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<p>Wow, what a blast from the past. My mom had a Pepsi bottle with a sprinkler plug on it. She would sprinkle the clothes and toss them in the basket. I had forgotten about that.</p>
<p>Son Downy sprayed his own shirts this morning.</p>
<p>Does anyone still starch their shirts and bed linens?</p>
<p>I normally do not wear jeans, but if i must i have two pair. I have both “cowboy pressed medium starch” </p>
<p>I agree that having your t shirts pressed is a little over the top.</p>
<p>DH has his shirts done with light starch. They are starched enough that I can’t get them to look the way he wants them. And so to the laundry they go.</p>