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My favorite part of the modern society is our collective decision to stop ironing clothes.
Ramen Witch 🧹🦋@mayaisloading digamos que es una postura ecológica.
BeeCycling has moved@mayaisloading Yes. Not ironed anything in ages. My brother still irons everything - he likes it, he says. That's the influence of being in the army. 😁 My sister-in-law therefore never has to iron.
@beecycling If someone enjoys it, that's a whole different story. But I like how nowadays no one would bat an eye at a wrinkled clothing, even many semi-formal clothes included in this point. Life's too short for this.
SalamiAeros@mayaisloading Some clothes look surprisingly good wrinkled as well. I remember in the early 2000s summer wrinkled button ups were a thing. And some still look great after all this time. @beecycling
Nick@beecycling @mayaisloading Ex-Army here, it's probably the reason i don't iron anything now 😄
@nick @mayaisloading It's probably one of those things where after you leave you either iron everything forever, or never touch an iron again.
Matt@mayaisloading After many many years of never ironing clothes, I did recently buy a steamer which does a similar job but without the ironing board...
And it makes me quite happy to see the results of a steamed t-shirt or pair of pants.
skry@matt @mayaisloading What kind is your steamer? I had a bigger one I didn’t like.
@skry I got one of these Tefal Pop steamers. It's not expensive and works for me. The water tank is fixed to the handle and only does maybe 1-2 garments before its empty. So, perfect for doing your outfit before you put it on, but not great if you have a lot to do. https://youtu.be/tLlHhEpU9hw
Tefal | Handheld Clothes Steamer | Pure Pop DT202
@matt Thanks!
Lucie@matt does it work really ?@mayaisloading
@lau @mayaisloading Well, yes. It’s science. The hot steamy moisture makes the creases fall away. Is it more effective than an iron? Probably not. Does it take up less space than an iron and ironing board? Yes. Are there better steamers out there? Probably.
@lau @mayaisloading But also, as the original post points out, nobody really cares if your clothes are crease free or not anymore.
I feel people used to comment on it and so there was a social pressure to iron your things. But now, everyone accepts you as your creasy non-ironed self.
Shane Celis@mayaisloading For this we give our thanks to Millenials.
Roman Luštrik@shanecelis @mayaisloading all hail millenials
David Cantrell 🏏@shanecelis @mayaisloading I’m 50 and the only time I ever ironed anything was the half hour my mum taught me how to do it. Bloody millennials taking credit for things their elders and betters invented.
Jonathan Kamens 86 47@mayaisloading Wait you're still wearing clothes? I thought we were past that.
@jik only for special occasions
@mayaisloading Ah. Hence the question of (not) ironing. Makes perfect sense.
Paul McO'Smith III@jik @mayaisloading i change shirts depending on whether it is an internal or customer facing meeting. i have not worn "trousers" to work since COVID started. nor shoes, for that matter.
Menno@mayaisloading
Hold on, my wife didn't get that memo.
Hold on, my wife didn't get that memo.
@MennoWolff @mayaisloading my mother is either in heaven or hell, but it doesn't matter. if in hell they'll make her iron forever and all sitting wondering "why is she smiling...?".
if in heaven; she's ironing.
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈@mayaisloading who has time and energy for that?
Martin EA7KRC@mayaisloading
I never understood why people iron clothes. Five minutes wearing them whats the difference ? Or is that just me !
I never understood why people iron clothes. Five minutes wearing them whats the difference ? Or is that just me !
Robert Laing@mayaisloading I was way ahead of the curve here. I boycotted all Apple products, especially iRons.
Sophia 🎶☃️🩵✨@mayaisloading As soon as I can afford to have my own laundry machine, I may think about it.
K@mayaisloading Wait, what that's a thing? I'm wasting 2 hours a week ironing (well, ironing / dancing / singing - all badly), and no one else is with me?
Guess I should stop looking for a new ironing board...
@munki. A while back I made a poll here asking if people still iron their clothes. The poll got fairly good number of people participating and the vast majority of answers were "no"
@mayaisloading @munki I can’t remember the last time I ironed something. I have an ironing pad that goes on top of the clothes dryer that I’ve never used.
My grandmother taught me how to iron every kind of thing. I would never iron my sheets! Maybe tablecloth? I still own some trousers that I would probably need to iron or steam before wearing.
I mostly stopped wearing things that look like they might need ironing. I also embraced the wrinkled look in a few cases.
Stacey@mayaisloading @munki I answered your poll! If I could have I would've said "I only iron the clothes that get unbearably wrinkly and I wish I'd known that about them before I bought them but they're mine now and I won't buy more."
Julian West🦞@mayaisloading The irony of wrinkly.
Nitin Khanna@mayaisloading yeah fuck that shit.
Jeff GriggI thank Clark Gable, personally, for eliminating men's undershirts.
feliz@mayaisloading Many begun to polish their cars instead though.
Luke
JefeBromden@mayaisloading Do you ever hear that thing about humans sleeping 1/3 of their lives? Well, for the second third, it used to be ironing, now we leave that in favor of scrolling
Oblomov@jefebromden @mayaisloading the next step in speciation for the Homo Sapiens will be between those with a bigger thumb (mobile scrollers) and those with a bigger middle finger (desktop scrollers).
Old Man@mayaisloading once they invented wrinkle free fabrics the whole world changed
cowboybanjobiker 🤠🪕🚴Oh yeah, I remember when I used to do that
`Da Elf@mayaisloading Ironing is against my religion.
Eric LawtonMy dad was still ironing two weeks before he died, just a few years ago. He had managed to quit smoking
I never started either ironing or smoking.
Blue Dahlia@mayaisloading spritzer here
Juan Villela@mayaisloading My Hispanic parents drilled into my head the importance of folding and ironing your clothes. So for my whole adult life I've done the exact opposite.
sqrt(-1)@mayaisloading yes! doing it for years already, and I'm so happy now
Gord@mayaisloading I just chuck them in the tumble dryer for 5 minutes and it takes the creases out
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Regina Kammer@mayaisloading I still iron...
Gorgeous na Shock!@mayaisloading I always buy iron-free shirts. I work with strong magnets, so it's a safety issue for me.
SaltPhoenix@mayaisloading I ironed today, but I was sewing. I'm glad it's not a *have to* daily situation.
@saltphoenix In the sawing process, I call it pressing and I'm convinced it's entirely different thing. (It's not but since it's different purpose I don't count it as ironing)
Deus Ex MacGuffin 
Also - fuck a buncha neckties!
Ged|NetAll hail Lycra!*
* Until it starts to show those tiny white bobbles and no amount of redying will make them disappear. 😣
Ysegrim@mayaisloading Why did nobody tell me?
ChuS
@mayaisloading it was high time.
For things like this, if you want a change... be the change.
Die Tooteuse@mayaisloading the only thing I use my iron for are these plastic beads my kids use to create collages.
Mre. Dartigen [maker mode]@mayaisloading I press when I'm sewing something, but afterwards? Only if there's creases that are really annoying me. Most wovens that have been nicely worn in (or are good-quality and got a vintage or enzyme wash finish) don't look that terrible with a bit of creasing in them. (I was told that the main difference between pressing and ironing is that with pressing, you're trying to avoid moving or warping the fabric at all, while with ironing you're trying to shape the fabric as you work.)
With that being said, half of why I like linen is that in a pinch, you can dry it with the iron (hottest setting, no steam, keep it moving so nothing scorches) and unless it's got really thick seams or buttons and stuff you can't iron over, it'll usually dry a lot quicker than the dryer will. (You can do the same thing with woven cotton but set the iron a bit cooler just in case - stretchy stuff like T-shirts and underwear are not recommended though, if there's any elastane/Lycra in there it'll degrade the elasticity). I've had to iron-dry my sheets before and while it takes a while, it was definitely faster than the dryer.
essjax@mayaisloading *quietly switches off the iron*
*noisely closes the ironing board*
*noisely closes the ironing board*
Jono@essjax @mayaisloading monster