Ironing dress shirts, the American way.

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

I thought the American way was to hire an illegal to do it.

[Wezil]

That's pretty expensive. Most dry cleaners here will do a shirt for just under a dollar.
(There is a lot of competition)

I actually have a middle-man. I take my stuff to the laundromat at the end of the street and they send it out. It's a service I pay extra for since (as you may have gathered) I'm lazy when it comes to these things.

I could get it done cheaper but it would be more of a hassle.

[Ming]

With all the competition here, we got a dry cleaner to stop by our house once a week for pick up and drop off.
Prices were great, and they couldn't have made it easier for us.

[Wezil]

The cheapest I ever paid was about a $1 per shirt but I had to take them to them. I guess we just don't have as many "Suits" as you do in Chicago to foster that kind of competition.

[rah]

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Non iron 100% cotton shirts

Never seen these before. If I was still required to wear a suit every, I'd look into this further. Even though they are considerably more expensive then the shirts I normally would buy.

[Blaupanzer]

Ditto, although I do have them laundered and lightly starched.

Same here. Shirts are $0.79, everything else is $1.20 for laundering/ironing, and $2.00 for dry cleaning. Good service with a few smashed buttons over the years. They have a seamstress on-site, if the need arises.

[onodera]

She will now and then, otherwise I'm stuck doing it. However, in the summer here it is acceptable to roll your sleeves two or three times so the shirt is about at your elbow. It's more casual but still says your in "business mode".

I simply wear short-sleeved shirts in the summer.

[Zkribbler]

I paid $1.25 to have my shirts laundered by the dry cleaners.

Wezil, I'll bet that, even though you take your shirts to the dry cleaner, they're laundering them. That's what mine did, and it makes more sense. The shirts come back in plastic just as if they were dry cleaned.

[Zopperoni]

I wear Andrew-J shirts, they're non-iron (they're actually sort of self-ironing using your body temp) and stain-resistant. I've had them for years now and they're awesome for traveling because I can just roll my shirts to put into my suitcase and not worry about wrinkles and stuff. They're not expensive either. At regular pricing they're between 75 and 85 EUR, but I recently bought one (my fourth shirt) at a sale for half price!

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[Wezil]

I paid $1.25 to have my shirts laundered by the dry cleaners.

Wezil, I'll bet that, even though you take your shirts to the dry cleaner, they're laundering them. That's what mine did, and it makes more sense. The shirts come back in plastic just as if they were dry cleaned.

You're so cynical.

Do you get that way as you get old?

[SlowwHand]

I knew some black guys in the service that had their permanent pressed fatigues heavily starched, to the point that there was this shine to them. They always won Monday morning inspection and got days off. Forget that crap. Even in The World, I do light starch.

[Dinner]

I wear Andrew-J shirts, they're non-iron (they're actually sort of self-ironing using your body temp) and stain-resistant. I've had them for years now and they're awesome for traveling because I can just roll my shirts to put into my suitcase and not worry about wrinkles and stuff. They're not expensive either. At regular pricing they're between 75 and 85 EUR, but I recently bought one (my fourth shirt) at a sale for half price!

I'm not sure if they still are but all the Nowell's stuff (the company which owns/makes the Andrew-J brand) used to be made in North Carolina. Also you Euros are getting ripped off on the price (which I think is the fault of your retailers) because in the US you can find them for $40-$60 when they're not even on sale.

[Zopperoni]

I've never been able to find them in the US, but yea, there's only one retailer I know of here. But dress shirts are generally between 50 and 70 EUR for quality ones so it fits in the general perception.

[Sava]

Americans don't iron, we pay Koreans to do that for us

[Dis]

you can iron clothes?