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Work shirts: Dry clean or standard washer/dryer/iron

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Reel

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I spent a bit of time last week trying to iron out my work shirts and I suck at it. Some of them were in decent shape already and some of them I couldn't make any headway on to get the wrinkles out of. Do people usually take their shirts to be dry cleaned on a regular basis? I have heard prices less than a dollar for a button-down shirt to be cleaned, starched, and pressed. I figure it isn't a huge expense and it might be easier but I figured I'd post this here and see if anyone had any comments about it.
 
Too lazy to take to cleaners and pick em up later. I just get the express 1mx shirts when they're 20-30 and do a ligth wash, no dryer and hang dry. Then I use one of those steam things.

 
Try a Lands End Hyde Park oxford, it's a dress shirt that's almost like a denim casusal shirt. They're heavy enough that you can probably skip the ironing unless you're extra-fussy.
 
i just remembered that they make wrinkle-free dress shirts. i have one of them and it's awesome. you just take it right out of the dryer and hang it up and it doesn't need ironing.

it only needs ironing if you leave it in the dryer too long after the cycle is done.
 
I send mine out to get washed & ironed at the cleaners.
Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
Try a Lands End Hyde Park oxford, it's a dress shirt that's almost like a denim casusal shirt. They're heavy enough that you can probably skip the ironing unless you're extra-fussy.
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I have some of our company logo shirts that were done on those, great shirts, like wearing a good tablecloth. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Reel
I spent a bit of time last week trying to iron out my work shirts and I suck at it. Some of them were in decent shape already and some of them I couldn't make any headway on to get the wrinkles out of. Do people usually take their shirts to be dry cleaned on a regular basis? I have heard prices less than a dollar for a button-down shirt to be cleaned, starched, and pressed. I figure it isn't a huge expense and it might be easier but I figured I'd post this here and see if anyone had any comments about it.
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I always had my suits dry-cleaned but did the shirts myself. They tended to get worn out much quicker if I ironed them (collars start fraying, seams become wrinkled, etc.), so you probably don't really save much money over the cleaners since you have to replace the shirts faster. Plus, it sucks after awhile to have to do all that work just to wear the damn thing for a day and do it all over again.
 
Cleaners. It's only like $1.50 per shirt, your shirts will last MUCH longer than washing and ironing them yourself, and I don't care how good you are with an iron or how great the latest wrinkle-free technology is, it will never look as good as a professionally pressed shirt.
 
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