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#1 2008-03-11 10:58:40
- AQG
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The Non-Iron Shirt
Non-Iron, wrinkle resistant stuff gets no love at all on these fora. Why, over at AAAT there's a hack and slash going on right now about Brooks Brothers' ties. Yet, non-iron shirts and hangovers go together like a horse and carriage. This, I tell ya brother, you can't have one without the other.
Sometimes I roll (literally) out of bed the morning on a work day with a throbbing head. Maybe the night before I got quietly chateaued at home, or it was dads' night at the pub, or it was dinner at my parents' place. No matter what the reason, AQL gives me just the same look of utter scorn and derision. She looks more likely to serve original process than iron my shirt. I crawl across the floor to the dresser and desperately stab the buttons of my Palm Treo. The screen lights up blindingly and pain stabs from my eyes into my brain when I see "Custody Hearing at 8:15 in a town 30 miles away." Mind you, it's 7:40 and time to mutter, "Fuck."
Even if I had time to hover over the ironing board, I haven't got the physical capacity. Yet, something comes to the rescue. There's a clean, non-iron shirt hanging there. I can marshal the forces to get into the thing and a suit. Hopped up on Ibuprofen and Coca-Cola, I drive like a fiend and get to court on time looking for all the world fresh and even competent. The competent bit is an added bonus when I show up in front of a guy who has paid me a pile to try to keep his evil, carping haridan of an ex from taking his kids from him. I'm professionally turned out head to toe and the wincing expression I wear from pounding in my head will just look like sympathy as the judge rules against my client.
So, there's my salute to the non-iron shirt. Perhaps no internet gentleman needs one in his wardrobe, but every internet bounder should have one in a glass case with a little hammer and a sign that reads, "Break in Case of Emergency."
#2 2008-03-11 11:46:26
- Coolidge
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Re: The Non-Iron Shirt
I think it's also a smart thing to keep in the office closet with that extra suit just in case.
#3 2008-03-12 03:41:13
- Moose Maclennan
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Re: The Non-Iron Shirt
No gripes here with 'non-iron' at all, other than that so few really are.
And although these are mostly 100% cotton now, I still don't have any problems with a poly-cotton blend.
Good story AQG!
#4 2008-03-12 03:57:05
- The_Shooman
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Re: The Non-Iron Shirt
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#5 2008-03-12 06:49:04
- AQG
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Re: The Non-Iron Shirt
Good to hear from you Shooey and Moose. I was beginning to fear that everybody here except Cooley and me was too genteel to get hungover!
#7 2008-03-12 07:02:05
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Re: The Non-Iron Shirt
I don't like non-iron in oxford cloth, but I have no complaints with it in broadcloth. But, it's hard to find broadcloth in a non non-iron anymore.
Archie
#9 2008-03-13 20:32:22
- Coolidge
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Re: The Non-Iron Shirt
To be slightly contrary, I continue to dislike the "coated" feel of non-irons, and they aren't my first choice, but that doesn't mean I don't get the idea of emergency use. Sometimes you just cannot be bothered.
#12 2008-03-14 07:09:30
- Horace
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Re: The Non-Iron Shirt
My wife has about 5 or 6 of those non-iron shirts from Brooks. She likes them. And they seem to have worn well.
As for your particular problem, I suggest a lot of coffee and a certain pill from the pharmacy which I wouldn't make a "'abit" out of.
Also, I was struck by the ol' school trick seen on Mad Men of keeping four or five laundered & pressed (and folded) dress shirts in your desk drawer. That's key.
""This is probably the last Deb season...because of the stock market, the economy, Everything..." - W. Stillman.
#13 2008-03-14 15:39:15
- Grace
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Re: The Non-Iron Shirt
I encourage Cheeky to wear his non iron shirts as everyday wear, it saves so much time just hanging the shirts on the drying rack over the Aga on hangers and then transfering them to his wardrobe. If we are going out somewhere nice or say for a meal to a restaraunt in town,I will always iron him one of his dressier all cotton shirts.
Suffice to say the non iron shirt has its place in everymans wardrobe.
I`m the one who spanks the monkey
#15 2008-03-14 16:05:14
- Grace
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Re: The Non-Iron Shirt
AQG, I do not expect anyone to change their behaviour because I am here, I grew up with elder brothers,My father was a Commander in the Royal Navy, I do the teas at the rugby club on occasions, and I am married to Cheeky. There really isn`t too much that can make me blush. Besides I used to play hockey at school, university and at senior level, get a group of hockey playing femails together and watch the boys mouths gape.
I`m the one who spanks the monkey
#17 2008-03-14 17:53:30
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Re: The Non-Iron Shirt
I once disdained these shirts but am warming to them for a reason not intended.
Most dry cleaners are becoming so increasingly rough with shirts, that I now hate sending them in. There really is no way around it (I've seen few who can iron and press regular shirts with the same results, and who has hours to iron every week.) for the majority of my shirts. So for everyday workhorse wear, I'm trying to stick with the non-irons. They come out cleaner, saving them from a heat-set collar ring, and are free from smashed buttons and fabric abuse.
Non-irons I wear twice a month look better than shirts I wear once or twice a year.
#19 2009-01-21 13:06:54
- Decline & Fall
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Re: The Non-Iron Shirt
"I like bars just after they open in the evening. When the air inside is still cool and clean and everything is shiny. The first quiet drink of the evening in a quiet bar-that's wonderful."
— Raymond Chandler
#21 2009-01-22 13:46:02
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Re: The Non-Iron Shirt
eg, I assume that it was an Ontario institution. Which one?
"I like bars just after they open in the evening. When the air inside is still cool and clean and everything is shiny. The first quiet drink of the evening in a quiet bar-that's wonderful."
— Raymond Chandler