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    I've been looking at youtube videos from different male-oriented American magazines about ironing dress shirts and noticed one strange thing: they all recommend ironing the sleeve flat thereby creating two creases along its length.
    Is it truly the way men wear their dress shirts in the US? Or is it a simplified way of ironing for the magazines' target audience? Here in Russia creases on the sleeves are a subject of "has your wife gotten lazy?" jokes. Shirt sleeves are supposed to be smooth and tubular in shape.
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  • #2
    The crease is supposed to be there.

    ACK!
    Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust!

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    • #3
      Sounds like it's the Russians who are lazy.
      Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
      "Hating America is something best left to Mobius. He is an expert Yank hater.
      He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ Braindead

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      • #4
        The cuffs that I get back from the cleaners are tubular. No crease.
        I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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        • #5
          CUFFS! Not sleeves.
          Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
          "Hating America is something best left to Mobius. He is an expert Yank hater.
          He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ Braindead

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          • #6
            The sleeves not including the cuffs come back from the cleaners with two creases.
            I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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            • #7
              Originally posted by SlowwHand View Post
              Sounds like it's the Russians who are lazy.
              Think harder. To make creases, you iron the sleeve once. To make the sleeve smooth, you pull it on the narrow arm of your ironing board and iron it several times while slowly rotating it.
              Graffiti in a public toilet
              Do not require skill or wit
              Among the **** we all are poets
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              • #8
                I see. That sounds more like obsessive compulsive to me.
                Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
                "Hating America is something best left to Mobius. He is an expert Yank hater.
                He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ Braindead

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                • #9
                  Dunno. As I've said, that's the way dress shirts are worn here. Creased sleeves are like white socks.
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                  Do not require skill or wit
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                  Among the poets we are ****.

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                  • #10
                    What's that supposed to mean?? I wear white socks, with jeans. Is that supposed to be a shot at me?!?

                    That does it. I'm going to eat and cool down some. You really have me irritated right now, onodera.



                    Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
                    "Hating America is something best left to Mobius. He is an expert Yank hater.
                    He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ Braindead

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                    • #11
                      White socks
                      I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by SlowwHand View Post
                        What's that supposed to mean?? I wear white socks, with jeans. Is that supposed to be a shot at me?!?

                        That does it. I'm going to eat and cool down some. You really have me irritated right now, onodera.



                        Barbaric. White socks are for playing tennis. You are supposed to wear cream, buff or tan socks with jeans and/or chinos.
                        Graffiti in a public toilet
                        Do not require skill or wit
                        Among the **** we all are poets
                        Among the poets we are ****.

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                        • #13
                          You are nuts .

                          Anything other than white socks with jeans and, say, Chuck Taylor All Stars looks like an abomination. And if you are wearing jeans with boots, the color doesn't matter because no one is going to see them.
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                          - John 13:34-35 (NRSV)

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                          • #14
                            Taking fashion advice from a Russian
                            12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by onodera View Post
                              I've been looking at youtube videos from different male-oriented American magazines about ironing dress shirts and noticed one strange thing: they all recommend ironing the sleeve flat thereby creating two creases along its length.
                              Is it truly the way men wear their dress shirts in the US? Or is it a simplified way of ironing for the magazines' target audience? Here in Russia creases on the sleeves are a subject of "has your wife gotten lazy?" jokes. Shirt sleeves are supposed to be smooth and tubular in shape.
                              Erm, yes! And besides, who cares if the sleeves have been ironed flat? Ironing is just a chore that should be made as straightforward as possible. But then again, why let something so sensible get in the way of a bit of good old-fashioned Russian misogyny
                              Speaking of Erith:

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