I’m gonna be the Debbie downer and mention that no-iron clothes have synthetics in them, the washing of which is a major contributor to the microplastics problem.
Ironing
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Condour75@slrpnk.net 3 days ago
fl42v@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
All clothes are no-iron clothes if you DGAF enough :)
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 3 days ago
My people.
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Lol who said anything about specific garments. We just wear our clothes wrinkled and no one cares.
MutilationWave@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Yeah that’s linen for you. People don’t wear it much anymore sadly so they don’t get that they just look wrinkled. I love linen shirts though.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 3 days ago
no-iron clothes have synthetics in them
most my clothing is 100% cotton, and I have never ironed once I left my parent’s home.
ssj2marx@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
I have never even heard of “no iron clothes” until now, and I haven’t ironed any of my clothes except when I absolutely had to do it because I was in the Marines.
Condour75@slrpnk.net 2 days ago
Fair!
BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.world 3 days ago
If I have to choose between keeping nature around and not having to buy an iron again, is gonna be a tough choice.
Nachorella@lemmy.sdf.org 3 days ago
you can do both if you just choose not to care about wrinkled clothes.
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 3 days ago
True, but tires are way, way worse.
Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 3 days ago
You must look fucking stupid wearing tyres
Hildegarde@lemmy.world 3 days ago
No iron clothes is a lie. They say no iron on the label in the store, but they tell you to iron in on the care label.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Hanging them up rather than putting them in the dryer will get most wrinkles out, especially if you smooth/stretch the collar, placket and cuffs
candyman337@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Yeah nah by now ironing I mean I do not iron unless it’s a fancy event, regardless of the fabric lol
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Could be formaldehyde as well right?
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 2 days ago
Wool, cotton, etc, all don’t need ironing. Just don’t over dry and hang them up right away.
MossyFeathers@pawb.social 3 days ago
Ironing seems like it’d be a really chill and relaxing activity, if we had time to engage in it.
A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 3 days ago
It is, if you don’t have to do it all the damn time. If you just iron your clothes when you want/need to, it’s an enjoyable chore.
nieceandtows@programming.dev 3 days ago
It’s like gardening/lawn care for me. I like doing it, but I hate having to do it or else.
theatomictruth@lemmy.world 3 days ago
It is But only for men
VelvetStorm@lemmy.world 3 days ago
How have I never seen this video before?
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Would’ve thought we have more leisure time today than back in yee olden ironing thymes
crusa187@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
This was my first thought. “Ironing?! Ain’t nobody got time for that!” It would probably be nice though.
DigDoug@lemmy.world 3 days ago
…but then your clothes might look like you’ve worn them before.
What are you? Poor?
SternburgExport@feddit.de 3 days ago
Yes?
jaybone@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Now everyone’s poor, so it’s okay.
Kekzkrieger@feddit.de 2 days ago
I just buy new clothes every time.
johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Definitely did not.
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
IKR, my SO owns two.
IDK what OP is on about, though, I’ve never used one.
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 2 days ago
You’re going with someone who owns two irons?
Blink twice if you’re in danger.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Speak for yourself. Casual clothes killed most ironing but ain’t nobody showing up in a wrinkled suit.
coaxil@lemm.ee 3 days ago
I don’t even own a suit haha
Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
I wish they were more affordable in the US. I love wearing a suit, makes me feel like a mobster. lol Cosplay for the unstable.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 3 days ago
Hopefully no weddings or funerals coming up. Then again, if you’re American, I’ve seen people show up to a wedding in shorts and a baseball cap. No ironing required.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I didn’t for a long time either. Then I needed one.
saigot@lemmy.ca 14 hours ago
On the rare occasion I have to wear a dress shirt for work, I’m making sure it’s as wrinkled as possible. I wouldn’t want to be mistaken for one of the execs, it gives the impression that you don’t work hard. I think it’ll continue bubbling up in the same way not wearing a tie and not having curtails did.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Casual clothes killed most ironing but ain’t nobody showing up in a
wrinkledsuit.Unless you’re upper management or going to a wedding/funeral/formal event, why would you even wear a suit? In the last decade I’ve worn my suit 3 or 4 times in the last decade, and they were all weddings or funerals.
Abnorc@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Where I work the staff still wear full suits for the most part. I think it’s a more traditional workplace though.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Yeah I should have put an edit in. I didn’t know this was going to blow up like this. I don’t wear a suit or formal clothes more than about once a year, for the events of friends and families. I’m not trying to say it’s an every day thing.
nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 2 days ago
Give it a try. Hit up a thrift store and get some great tacky suits from the 70s and 80s, if you can find em. It’s a bit of fun to wear them when it’s not necessary or expected. I probably wouldn’t wear a really nice wedding/funeral suit in such cases because I spill fucking everything and would become destitute from the dry cleaning bills.
Now, if it were a social expectation/requirement, it would suck and not be fun. But, as a choice that one can make, it’s great sometimes.
OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 3 days ago
How often do you wear a suit? Dry clean as necessary, hang it up between uses. I’ve never ironed a suit.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 2 days ago
That doesn’t proof it from wrinkles, especially if you need to travel to the event.
MonkderDritte@feddit.de 3 days ago
Clothing steamers are less damaging though.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I’ve never had one actually work though. Irons, used properly, are safe and they work.
riskable@programming.dev 3 days ago
This achievement belongs to the tail end of GENX… The folks that brought us grunge.
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 3 days ago
Im a geriatric millennial
simplejack@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Close enough. You can come in the club. There’s dunkaroos in the back if you’re hungry.
Blackout@kbin.run 3 days ago
I remember always wearing wrinkled shirts back then because I didn't care about ironing or society.
BubbleMonkey@slrpnk.net 3 days ago
I did that in the military. They were less keen and some shit hit some fans or whatever. So I got me some safety pins for my neckline and they shut the fuck up and my millennial self rejoiced.
nepenthes@lemmy.world 3 days ago
We are considered a microgeneration they have dubbed Xennials (1977-1983) Xennials 1977-1983
Xennials are described as having had an analog childhood and a digital young adulthood.
ChapulinColorado@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I feel like a lot of people from different countries would fit that description after the fact since technology was more expensive and it took us longer to be able to afford the new and trendy items.
creditCrazy@lemmy.world 2 days ago
You might even say we ironed that problem out
Allero@lemmy.today 2 days ago
oh, the irony!
juliebean@lemm.ee 3 days ago
all ya’ll admitting to ironing your clothes in the comments are a bunch of dweebs, just saying.
NooBoY@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Said ye who has not experienced Extreme Ironing.
MrShankles@reddthat.com 3 days ago
Extreme Ironing: Pressing for Victory
Speechless
SufniDroid@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
I bought an ironing board and an iron when I moved into my current home thinking “yeah, I have some shirts, I’ll iron them when I need them”.
That was 3 years ago. The ironing board was put into a corner out of sight and the iron is still in its original packaging, unopened to this day. I’m trying to justify my purchase with “better to have it and not need it than the other way around”.
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I iron like a mother fucker. Fuck you wrinkles
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Me who still irons clothes
looks sideways
RevolverSly@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Ironic
herrcaptain@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Soon on Forbes or something:
“You’ll be flattened to find out what industry millenials are killing next.”
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 2 days ago
But I do like ironing. I do it so infrequently, I associate it with getting all fancied up to go out to a special event.
And everything about it is so relaxing… The sound of the water in the iron, the hiss of steam. That clean smell, rising with the hot steam. You’re forced to slow down and pay attention, if you want to get it right.
Whether you’re alone or sharing the moment with company, it’s a recipe for encoding a core memory, deep in there, pinned in place by multiple senses.
Resol@lemmy.world 2 days ago
All my clothes have creases on them. I do not care unless it actually ruins the look. Only then do I use the iron.
hlqxz@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
I fuckin hate ironing clothes
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
On a tangent… Why are we still wearing ties? Buttons exist and are already included 95% of the time.
jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I still have to put up with it a little bit but I made it my life’s mission to avoid it as much as possible whilst still being part of mainstream society. I’m so glad that this meme indicates that FINALLY other people are not only not doing it but also denouncing it as much as I have. I’ve had to hold back on bitching about how stupid and irritating it is because it was always something everyone else seemed to have viewed as a mundane, at worst neutral and at best good aspect of everyday life that wasn’t that hard and gave you nice looking clothes. You can’t butch at length about something that is considered in those terms because you just come off as a boring crank. But now finally, if only for a moment I can still feel normal whilst embracing my abiding hatred of the pointless and time wasting practice.
FUCK ironing, and especially fuck whatever dipshit came up with it. Before this was invented wrinkled clothes would have to have been but a fact of life. I’m near certain whoever did come up with this was someone who knew they personally would never have had to do it. For centuries it would have been palmed off on the usual people that had to carry out the shitwork and now, in modern times, we didn’t jettison the practice along with the sexism and classism that forced some to have to do it and not others, we just made it so that now we all have to do it. It delivers no benefit, it’s so fucking stupid aaagghh! Because of the conventions and expectations that formed around it, I’m unfortunately forced to participate in it despite my misgivings, even if only on the bare minimum of occasions. If I have a job interview, or I’m going to a fancy event I have play in to this ridiculous farce that is noticeable only from its absence and help perpetuate it. I sincerely hope this generation really has managed to abolish it and it’s only the remnants of my own upbringing and peers that mean I still have to occasionally do it because the world will be objectively better off if no one ever does this again.
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Last time I ironed something was for a job interview
BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I just run anything wrinkled through the dryer for about 10 minutes.
Nachorella@lemmy.sdf.org 3 days ago
I got into sewing so I do use an iron, but even then half the time I’m lazy and don’t even press my seams. I’m not very good at sewing as a result, but I have a good time all the same.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 3 days ago
Hopefully none of you are using suits lol
nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 2 days ago
I, for one, do like to iron. I’d probably not like it if it was mandatory for all clothing though. What really has happened is societal changes leading to much more casual attire expectations (not that we could afford to dress like previous generations) alongside advancements in textile technology that have resulted in garments less likely to show wrinkles.
el_abuelo@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
I iron my tshirts and shorts otherwise they look crinkley
bluewing@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Ironing clothes died long before millennials. Grandma quit ironing before you were born. Wrinkle Free shirts and pants started showing up in the 1970’s and were common within the decade.
Source: I was there.
SpaceByn@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I think what this meme misses is, largely, clothes in the west are now designed to look as if they have been ironed if hung up properly to dry
This is absolutely not a pet peeve of mine that we didn’t just stop ironing due to the lack of social convention (brought on by less time in working people’s lives and less domestic labour done in the home by women) but by new technology in the area of clothing
Etterra@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I’m Gen-X and I hate to break it to you, we had permanent press well before we had Millennials.
Malfeasant@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I think gen x did that… You’re welcome.
Bye@lemmy.world 3 days ago
You guys don’t iron clothes?
I’m a millennial and I iron my clothes, how do you get the wrinkles out??? Teach me your secrets
Cruxifux@feddit.nl 3 days ago
Banning elbows not being allowed on the table and hats not being allowed indoors are also wins for me
evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Elbows have always been allowed on the table. The rule for fancy dining was that you couldn’t have elbows on the table during a course, i.e., when people are actively eating, but before/after, it’s fine. That’s a reasonable rule to be considerate of space.
Cruxifux@feddit.nl 3 days ago
Never been an issue for me. The issue would be invading someone’s personal space. Maybe we just have bigger tables where I live.
PythagreousTitties@lemm.ee 3 days ago
Exactly. Food on the table? Elbows off. It’s simple.
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
If elbows aren’t allowed on a table during a course of a fancy dinner, they have definitely not always been allowed on the table.
protist@mander.xyz 3 days ago
“Why?”
“Because!”
“…”
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I like the way we don’t have to wear petticoats under our dresses anymore.
Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
I mean doesn’t everyone still at least wear the stretchy shorts under their dress? Like I’m not going just panties. That seems so lewd.
Cruxifux@feddit.nl 2 days ago
Yeah. Now I just wear them for fun!