Not a millenial but the only time i get an iron out is to declump the pocket flaps on my flannel shirts
I’m pretty sure ‘Declump pocket flaps’ is in section 1 of the Apollo Launch Configuration checklist, right before Lint Valve Override.
Could be but mine are forever earthbound
You’re welcome
~Millenials
I still use a steamer on some clothes
A steamer, Iron and that wrinkle spray stays close. “We”, nope.
Man, I iron all the time. I’m not like, ironing underwear like a crazy person, but I have a lot of shirts that would be straight up unacceptable to wear to work without it. It takes like 2 minutes.
Ironing is the only time of the week where I have the time to watch TV or movies. Not that I don’t have free time, but I usually spend it in other ways. During ironing, I’m a captive audience. That said, I don’t iron all that much. I remember the last season of The Boys took me four months to finish…
OP casually admitting his clothes look like shit, or he dresses like a toddler.
I’m sure once you graduate high school you’ll find opportunities to use a clothes iron, in the meantime stop pretending you’re a millennial.
I guess my clothes look like shit, or I dress like a toddler.
The great thing about being an adult is I don’t have to give a fuck what others think about me.
Millennial here, graduated highschool nearly 20 years ago. Still not ironing or owning an iron. If you hang your clothes up to dry and do it properly, you don’t need to iron them.
Keep telling yourself that, wrinkles.
Bro has never owned a piece of clothing made of linen in his life.
Or anything other than cotton-poly tshirts from target.
You can really tell who in this thread has never had to dress professionally or formally.
“Leinen knittern edel” - German saying for “Linen crinkles look good”
lulz.
I probably have socks older than you.
So your clothes are wrinkled and old? Yikes.
Just like my scrotum
I think gen x did that… You’re welcome.
Speak for yourself. Casual clothes killed most ironing but ain’t nobody showing up in a wrinkled suit.
Casual clothes killed most ironing but ain’t nobody showing up in a
wrinkledsuit.Unless you’re upper management or going to a wedding/funeral/formal event, why would you even wear a suit? In the last decade I’ve worn my suit 3 or 4 times in the last decade, and they were all weddings or funerals.
Yeah I should have put an edit in. I didn’t know this was going to blow up like this. I don’t wear a suit or formal clothes more than about once a year, for the events of friends and families. I’m not trying to say it’s an every day thing.
Give it a try. Hit up a thrift store and get some great tacky suits from the 70s and 80s, if you can find em. It’s a bit of fun to wear them when it’s not necessary or expected. I probably wouldn’t wear a really nice wedding/funeral suit in such cases because I spill fucking everything and would become destitute from the dry cleaning bills.
Now, if it were a social expectation/requirement, it would suck and not be fun. But, as a choice that one can make, it’s great sometimes.
I have a tailored suit in my closet, but there’s no way in fuck I’m showing up to work in that suit or any other suit.
For one, I work from home and I want to actually be comfortable. For two, if I was going into the office, I would ruin it at some point crawling under desks and behind racks and shit.
Absolutely there with you. Hence my suggestion of thrift store.
And for wearing one to the office? I also work from home so, would only likely do so to confuse my wife.
Where I work the staff still wear full suits for the most part. I think it’s a more traditional workplace though.
I don’t even own a suit haha
I didn’t for a long time either. Then I needed one.
I wish they were more affordable in the US. I love wearing a suit, makes me feel like a mobster. lol Cosplay for the unstable.
Hopefully no weddings or funerals coming up. Then again, if you’re American, I’ve seen people show up to a wedding in shorts and a baseball cap. No ironing required.
The most recent funeral I attended, only the deceased’s brother wore a suit, the rest of the family wore basically everyday clothes, as did 99% of the attendants. I left my suit jacket in the car because I felt overdressed.
Was this in the US?
It was, yes.
The deceased wasn’t the type that would want anyone to put on their Sunday best just for him, so it made sense. But when I mentioned it to my father, he commented that no one really wears suits to funerals anymore, or even weddings.
That’s how we did my grandfather’s memorial. Grandma didn’t want it to feel formal and we weren’t about to force that.
Just across (south) of the bay from you judging by your name: I was at a funeral recently, not many people wore suits. Of course, nobody wore shorts or anything, but not too many formal suits.
Here black suit is usually the way to go
Clothing steamers are less damaging though.
I’ve never had one actually work though. Irons, used properly, are safe and they work.
Mine does.
Bully for you?
?
I’m glad it works for you.
On the rare occasion I have to wear a dress shirt for work, I’m making sure it’s as wrinkled as possible. I wouldn’t want to be mistaken for one of the execs, it gives the impression that you don’t work hard. I think it’ll continue bubbling up in the same way not wearing a tie and not having curtails did.
How often do you wear a suit? Dry clean as necessary, hang it up between uses. I’ve never ironed a suit.
That doesn’t proof it from wrinkles, especially if you need to travel to the event.
Ironing is for crafts and sewing.
On a tangent… Why are we still wearing ties? Buttons exist and are already included 95% of the time.
As a chubby middle aged sales guy who remembers when we used to wear suits, I miss them because a suit and tie is about the best thing you can wear as a chubby guy to look good.
We’ve got a collective fetish for being lightly choked all day while in an air conditioned space and attending meetings about “north star visions”.
I thought they were there to cover the unsightly and promiscuous buttons
Slutty Little Tramps
Tie haters unite!
Dyslexics untie!
… You don’t iron your clothes?
Do you just go places looking like you just got dragged through a bush backwards?
Yes and yes
I’ll take my clothes to the cleaners if I need to look fancy. They do a much better job anyhow.
man if your clothes look dragged through bushes i think you need to reconsider your washing and storage routine, my clothes just have minor creases and the fanciest part of my routine is rolling things up before stuffing them in a drawer.
… You don’t get dragged through a bush backwards? In this economy?
I’m Gen-X and I hate to break it to you, we had permanent press well before we had Millennials.
Who is we
Millennials.
I’m one, and the SO is a Zillennial; neither of us own irons. Just don’t see the point. Dryers are fairly effective wrinkle removers, and any remaining creases will eventually come out simply by wearing the clothing.
I iron for the creases!! I understand why many people wouldn’t have use for them but I like having crisp collars on button downs and polos and a slight crease to certain khakis
By “creases” I meant wrinkles. I have this weird quirk where I don’t like reusing a word too many times in a paragraph, so I’ll try to find a synonym.
I knew what you meant by the context, no worries
Did you even notice how many times you said ‘I’?
Shit.
RIP anything made of linen.
We don’t own anything made out of linen, lol
Regardless, delicates get air dried. I live in a “right to dry” state (i.e. it’s illegal to ban clotheslines here), but even if I didn’t, you can always hang them over the shower rod.
There’s the great trick - you really didn’t.
I definitely have clothes I still need to iron. If I don’t iron some of my button downs, they have a lot of wrinkles and look bad.
