Personally I enjoy ironing my dress shirts as I find it therapeutic plus I like the crease that forms on the sleeves, but I tried out a steamer recently and I have to say I'm impressed.
Curious to hear your preferences.
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Iron for my most formal occasions. Steamer for daily use dress shirts. Dry cleaning for suits of course. All things aside, iron is always on top.
How often are you getting your suits dry cleaned? I definitely have some that are long overdue
Good question I mean it honestly all depends. Me personally I'm not expected to wear a suit in office day-to-day so I don't get it dry cleaned that often. But some occasions there will be clients coming in, important calls, meetings etc etc where we are expected to wear a suit. So I'd say I dry clean mine every 3-5 wears, all depending on how it looks. If it's super important, get it dry cleaned, the price is equivalent to like 10 minutes of work, and also throw a shirt or 2 in there, it costs nothing and will be perfect to go with your suit
I'm offering an alternative point of view. I think people tend to dry clean their suits too often. As long as you don't have any stains or odours (or similar) and ensure to air and let your suit rest between uses, you should not have to dry clean it very often. Washing it after every 3-5 uses seems excessive to me because dry cleaning is extremely harsh on the fabrics.
3-4 times a year, maybe twice in the summer. You shouldn't do any more unless you want to prematurely ruin your suits.
If your shirts are wrinkled just throw them away and get some new ones.
Seems more prestigious
You joke but I walked into a friends apt in the city and he actually had a trash bag with Uniqlo shirts in it to take to goodwill because he refused to get them cleaned…
Would have been more prestigious if those were Zegna shirts.
Neither, it’s way easier to have them laundered and pressed.
Yea fair but as an intern I really can’t afford that yet. One day I’ll be like you Mr. Bateman
It’s usually pretty cheap, I think it’s $3.
This is a crucial question. i personally go with the steamer. No damage to fabrics caused by hot plate; less labor intensive process; steamers are usually just as or less expensive than an iron; takes up much less space than an iron and board.
Yeah I unfortunately ruined a dress shirt because of my iron. Granted it was a cheapo $50 one from Saks Fifth, but still down a white dress shirt which is absolutely critical.
Thinking of buying a steamer so it doesn’t happen again
Steamer. Then again, it's generally all that is required for my shirts that are predominantly non-iron shirts.
I like a steamer much more than an iron. An iron is more effective but I have a habit of destroying clothes when I try to use an iron. Also, steaming requires less equipment (ie - no board)
Light creases: hang the shirt(s) on a separate hanger each in the bathroom while you are taking a shower. Close the door and disable any exhaust vents. See what happens.
More severe creases: team iron! With water sprayed on.
I mostly wear vests or sweaters so wrinkly shirts are less of an issue for me ...
However, in order to avoid the worst wrinkles, I would recommend spinning the shirts in the washing machine at a low RPM, i.e. 600 or something comparable.
Then hang the (relatively wet) shirts for drying. This avoids most wrinkles from the get go ...
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