Submitted 2 hours ago by TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world to [deleted]
Might have just been my parents but I remember ironing clothes being so integral to life during childhood but I think I’ve ironed maybe a dozen things as an adult. What happened?
My dad wore a shirt and tie to work.
I wear pajama pants and a t shirt. And sometimes just the shirt.
So I iron a lot less.
I wear a dress shirt to work every day. They’re all no-iron; they don’t wrinkle and are wearable out of the dryer.
Textiles have come a long way in the past 50 years.
I definitely think it’s less common, and my first thought is that it’s probably down to a general switch to less formal wear? My dad wore a heck of a lot more white shirts than I do.
we invented wrinkle-free fabric blends
Ew, stop wearing plastic clothes
Your attempt at shaming people is cringe
But how else am I supposed to get my daily recommended allowance of microplastics?
Dryers and fabric conditioners mainly. Clothes were handwashed and dried in the sun when I was growing up, so they had to be ironed to remove wrinkles.
i’m well over 45 and have never once ironed anything. fuck that shit
When I worked in a real IRL office, I ironed stuff all the time. Now, rarely.
Same reason no one shines their shoes anymore, a lot of shirts just don’t need the same level of maintenance anymore
Maybe I just care less but none of the wrinkles in my clothes seem noticeable enough to need ironing.
plastic clothes doesn’t seem to get wrinkled as easily, and i guess they shouldn’t be ironed.
My wife and I hate ironing so we use the dry cleaners.
Overall though people do wear a lot less formal clothing,
Me mam irons daily but she’s mental
I used to iron shirts when I worked in an office/hotel
Now I find myself hand washing items in Travelodges and drying them either on the shower rail or the tiny radiator
No suit, shirts, and tie for the office grunts anymore.
black_flag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 minutes ago
I think it has to do with the materials clothes are made out of typically being more wrinkle resistant these days. No one ever liked ironing so as people were developing new textiles they had an eye towards that.