Deliberately Creased Shirts...

Chris W · 12-06-2007, 18:08

I've recently bought one of those shirts that is deliberately creasy. It's a cotton/ flax mix and it's just come out of the washing machine looking lovely. apart from the creases.

It has big creases in it as well as the little ones that it should have. So how do i get these out? I can't iron it because that will result in no little creases...

Anyone got any advice? is there a particular way in which i should be washing it? Do i just need to hang it? Starch? Cold iron? Any advice appreciated

Otherwise i'm just going to iron it, and that kind of defeats the point of it being deliberately creasy

**Hugh** · 12-06-2007, 18:12

Hang it in a bathroom/en suite with the hot shower running for 5 minutes, then leave it in there for an hour with the door/windows shut.

skyblueheroes · 12-06-2007, 18:16

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Originally Posted by Chris W

I've recently bought one of those shirts that is deliberately creasy. It's a cotton/ flax mix and it's just come out of the washing machine looking lovely. apart from the creases.

It has big creases in it as well as the little ones that it should have. So how do i get these out? I can't iron it because that will result in no little creases...

Anyone got any advice? is there a particular way in which i should be washing it? Do i just need to hang it? Starch? Cold iron? Any advice appreciated

Otherwise i'm just going to iron it, and that kind of defeats the point of it being deliberately creasy

Did you go back in time and get it from 1998 ?

Chris W · 12-06-2007, 18:20

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Originally Posted by skyblueheroes

Did you go back in time and get it from 1998 ?

Kind of... I bought it in Reading. Not exactly the fashion hub of the uk.

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Originally Posted by foreverwar

Hang it in a bathroom/en suite with the hot shower running for 5 minutes, then leave it in there for an hour with the door/windows shut.

hmm hadn't thought of that. thanks, i'll give it a bash

Cobbydaler · 12-06-2007, 18:57

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Originally Posted by skyblueheroes

Did you go back in time and get it from 1998 ?

No, he got it from danielf...

It's one of his castoffs that he never irons...

greencreeper · 12-06-2007, 20:38

A man who can iron huh

When you wash it, you need to move it from the washer to the line or airer, immediately. I know most men think that washing can be left in the machine for upto a week. Any creases should drop out as it dries.

I never iron. My mate does my clothes for work - shirts and trousers.

Chris W · 12-06-2007, 20:40

Yes a man that can iron! Shirts, Trousers, T-shirts, Bed Clothes, Underwear the lot! If it is washed it is ironed. (except socks and towels)

I do take stuff out straight away, although i fear i may be cramming too much in- hence everything being so creased.

Am currently awaiting results having "steamed" the shirt in the bathroom.

papa smurf · 12-06-2007, 22:15

if you want your shirts right you have to get married

12-06-2007, 22:33

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if you want your shirts right you have to get married

I've heard one of those steam cleaners on qvc will do - hang the shirt up, fit the appropriate nozzle & robert is your fathers brother

papa smurf · 12-06-2007, 22:37

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Originally Posted by homealone

I've heard one of those steam cleaners on qvc will do - hang the shirt up, fit the appropriate nozzle & robert is your fathers brother

yea but would you want to wake up next to it

danielf · 12-06-2007, 22:42

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Originally Posted by papa smurf

yea but would you want to wake up next to it

Depends if you fitted the appropriate nozzle?

superbiatch · 12-06-2007, 22:43

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Originally Posted by Chris W

Yes a man that can iron! Shirts, Trousers, T-shirts, Bed Clothes, Underwear the lot! If it is washed it is ironed. (except socks and towels)

You iron bedding and underwear?? Have you not got a life?

Chris W · 13-06-2007, 00:31

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Originally Posted by superbiatch

You iron bedding and underwear?? Have you not got a life?

i must have misread your user title... i'm sure it said "not really a bitch"

superbiatch · 13-06-2007, 08:54

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Originally Posted by Chris W

i must have misread your user title... i'm sure it said "not really a bitch"

Yeh, but ironing your grundies????

Angua · 13-06-2007, 09:39

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Originally Posted by superbiatch

Yeh, but ironing your grundies????

Number one item "not" to be ironed, 2nd being jeans. Neatly ironed jeans

big no no!

As for your shirt, straight out of the wash straighten it out from collar to hem with sleeves lengthways down the sides, then pull into a long sausage (do not roll) & twist as if you are trying to wring it out as tight as you can (this should get rid of the fat creases and make loads of thin ones). Release the twist and hang on a hanger to dry.