x-marks tshirt warning - do not iron

[Hamish]

I have always understood that one should never iron over the printed area on T-shirts - usually they carry a warning to that effect.

How anyone can wear any garment that has not been ironed beats me!! The only items I do not iron are my kilt hose/socks and footwear! All my bed-linen, towels, tea-towels, handkerchiefs, etc. are carefully ironed before being put away following laundry. That's the way I was brought up!!!

[Kilted KT]

I have always understood that one should never iron over the printed area on T-shirts - usually they carry a warning to that effect.

How anyone can wear any garment that has not been ironed beats me!! The only items I do not iron are my kilt hose/socks and footwear! All my bed-linen, towels, tea-towels, handkerchiefs, etc. are carefully ironed before being put away following laundry. That's the way I was brought up!!!

finally...I thought I was insane.

[bubba]

The only things I iron are the pleats on my kilts.

[Bob C]

Ironing t-shirts is insane. Ironing all that stuff Ham describes, well, there isn't even a word for that. ;)

I won't buy clothes that need ironing. I steam the pleats in my kilts when necessary and I have the cleaner press and starch my tux shirts. Everything else goes from the dryer to a hanger or drawer.

[UmAnOnion]

finally...I thought I was insane.

[Manu]

I dont even own an iron...go figure....

[MacSimoin]

How anyone can wear any garment that has not been ironed beats me!! The only items I do not iron are my kilt hose/socks and footwear! All my bed-linen, towels, tea-towels, handkerchiefs, etc. are carefully ironed before being put away following laundry. That's the way I was brought up!!

I certainly recall my mother and grandmother doing the same things and my being taught that certain articles of clothing should be pressed before folding/hanging them and putting them away. The women in my family (mom, grandmom, aunts, etc) were/are 'old school' Irish Catholics and they simply passed on what they'd been taught...nothing wrong with that, right?

Although Hamish makes a very good point (as usual) times change and the world moves at a faster pace every day (though I'm not a proponent of efficiency/progress just for the sake of it). I think the forgotten generation I'm a part of simply doesn't have the time for such domestic drudgery. But, thanks to my 'in-house training' I do own an iron (two, actually) and I will set time aside to press things that need it, excepting my t-shirts; they never really need an iron.