Dress shirts dry cleaning- Starch No/Low/Med/High?

[Zeze]

Starch kinds of gross me out. I go with no starch and shirts stay crisp anyway for just by the ironing service.

Am I safe to assume starching is 'outdated' due to the 'advancement' of fabrics?

 

[KeithTalent]

I never get mine starched. Totally unnecessary.

KT

 

[AznAnarchy99]

I just tell the Korean lady dry clean and she takes care of it.

 

[blackdogdeek]

I don't even get my shirts laundered.

Brooks Brothers, Charles Tyrwhitt and Jos. A. Bank non-iron dress shirts for the win!

 

[Markbnj]

None, can't stand it.

 

[Uppsala9496]

Light to medium starch for my shirts that I wear to the office (depends on the shirt). Extra heavy for those that I wear with my suits.

 

[JM Aggie08]

Light starch, you uncultured shit.

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

Medium starch, please.

 

[TechBoyJK]

ned starch

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

light starch, always.

 

[blackdogdeek]

ned starch

Wrinkle is coming.

 

[KeithTalent]

ned starch

Wrinkle is coming.

:awe:

KT

 

[Captante]

Light starch, you uncultured shit.

This.

(although its a rare day I have to wear the type of shirt that benefits)

 

[inachu]

Starching shirts is awesome for that nice look but in reality from my own experience made my shirts only last for 2 years when being starched at the local dry cleaners. The threads just age very fast.

I yawned and outstreched my arms and from the top at the neck seam down to the bottom to the wait my shirt tore and everyone heard it and laughed at me.

Boss let me go home and change. This happened at the World Bank......

 

[cherrytwist]

Since the advent of non-iron dress shirts this is typically unnecessary. Unless you warrant a job to dress in extremely professional attire where cotton is king.

 

[KentState]

I don't even bother wearing clothes that require dress cleaning. Glad the value I bring to my job isn't based on the level of starch in my shirt.

 

[xSauronx]

Starching shirts is awesome for that nice look but in reality from my own experience made my shirts only last for 2 years when being starched at the local dry cleaners. The threads just age very fast.

I yawned and outstreched my arms and from the top at the neck seam down to the bottom to the wait my shirt tore and everyone heard it and laughed at me.

Boss let me go home and change. This happened at the World Bank......

less likely the starch than the high-temperature presses used to press dress shirts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cfo6hbj1WE

the body of the shirts is pressed upon by heavy steel piped with steam. The shirts are pressed damp, stretched onto a bodice and the steamed, steel plates are pressed onto the bodice to dry the shirt wrinkle free.

its neat. but i could see it ruining shirts. it is not likely that if you ask for a shirt like that to be dry cleaned that it really gets dry cleaned.

also, i hated starch in my shirts. i find it very uncomfortable.

/family owns a dry cleaners
//glad i dont work there anymore

 

[Drako]

Wrinkle is coming.

A shirt needs starch as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.