Mens shirts... crease or not in the sleeve?

[clio57]

Which is the proper way to iron shirt sleeves, with or without a crease from shoulder to cuff. I don't like the crease but have been told that formal shirts should have a crease.

[Old_Geezer]

Iron ? Mine have lots of creases. Drives my woman mad ;-)

[lcg]

always a crease - casual or formal. they are the only things i iron; as it really is against my religion...i purchase clothes that do not require pressing and laundry techniques that minimise the risk of having to get the iron...x

[anneasquith]

how can you iron a shirt without a crease in the sleeve ?

[B00]

Mr Boo's workshirts are the only thing i iron too, detest it with a passion. And like Anna, how do you iron shirts without getting that crease in it?

[lcg]

you can avoid a crease if you only iron the middle section of sleeve and rotate to achieve no crease. hard work and pointless, IMHO...x

[LoftyLottie]

I am like icg and BOO. Only shirts get ironed, oh and my linen trousers. Anyway, creases in shirt sleeves for definite.

I have a friend who hates creases in men's shirt sleeves and manages to iron them without creases. Mr LL shirts have more than one crease when I iron them. They appear all over the place!!

[mike11111]

Gort me thinking too. As a single bloke the only item of laundry I ever iron is a shirt, purely for the creases.

[clio57]

Hard to explain but here goes... Imagine the sleeve is a cylindar and the seam is the join. Flatten the cylindar so that the join is underneath in the middle. Iron the lengthh of the sleeve i.e. over the seam/join.
Then move the sleeve so the seam is nearest you and iron again. If you don't iron over the edges in two movements you have a crease free sleeve.
I know this might sound sad but I hate sleeves that have multiple creases from where they have been ironed differently each time.

[mike11111]

A word of warning, especially to BOO; do as I do and remove the tab (ciggie) from the mouth whilst ironing because it's bloody difficult to wash out after it's been ironed in. I wouldn't normally have posted this, but the anti-smoking PC brigade are kicking off something rotten on another thread. It is at times like this that I long for a bit of sanity and ask, "Where's Molly?"

[B00]

Crikey, that sounds like hard work clio! Life's far too short to be buggering about on shirt creases (or no creases in your case). Send hubby out with tram lines up his arm and be proud woman!

[B00]

hehe mike, getting their knickers in a twist a bit aren't they?

Scuse me, im off to drop my cig but into their coffee cups- watch them keel over with heart attacks from the shock and outrage of it (cept Lottie, i like Lottie)

[mike11111]

<<getting their knickers in a twist a bit aren't they? >>

Understatement of the year You'd have to be a bloody good contortionist to fit it them!

[LoftyLottie]

:o) .

I like you to BOO, even though you have that terrible habit!! You can come and live next door to me any time you like!!

[scotman]

What's an iron?

[BillyBB]

No creases, ever. If you are going to do it, then do it properly.
My Gran would have had words with/for some of you.

[4candles]

Clio - you need one of these

http://www.amazon.co....m-Metal/dp/B0002EXYUM

[boxtops]

Just what I was going to suggest, 4candles - a sleeve board means you can iron it "in the round". Howver, ironing being one of my least favourite pastimes, we iron very little, and to make life easier for ourselves we bought one of these (not this model, but similar) http://www.argos.co.u...ses+and+steam+presses - fantastic speed once you get the knack, and yes, the shirts and trousers have fabbo creases.

[wheaten]

OH irons his own everything as I do it wrong accidently on purpose! also as it is a uniform it has to be just so. I do my own things on careful wash and hang in airing cupboard so they have no creases! OH will iron some of my things as he is well trained. Often asks if I want my face ironed whilst he's at it, cheeky sod!

Wheaten

[MrMe]

An old tailor once told me that shirts has to be tailor made for a crease to hang nicely. Even then, the crease shold not go all the way to the seam at the shoulder, and it should run on the back side of the arm. That means you can't flat iron the sleeve. A proper crease is thus harder to attain than a creaseless shirt. For manufacturing convenience, confection shirts are made with a cut not suitable for creased sleeves. To my eyes, (and the old tailors) flat ironed creased sleeves looks cheap. Especially if the collar is creased as well. And if done right,you don't need a sleeve Board to get creaseless shirts.