People used to care about appearances and wear their clothes for longer and so a level of maintenance and care was inherent that extended into clothes and their care. Fast fashion, a lack of social stigma on casual clothing, and ever increasing lack of time and increase in multitasking has lead to people ngaf.
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Most clothes are made out of plastic or plastic blends. So they usually don't need to be ironed. And ironing plastic is a bad idea. If you purchase natural textiles, you will need to iron most of them.
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.
My dad wore a dress 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’m not old you’re old.
Funny thing is: I switched from cheap T shirts to dress shirts after I bought one good quality one for a job interview.
They’re don’t get hot in the heat, wick away moisture, keep you warm when it’s cold, don’t shrink or wrinkle, last a good 10 years of heavy use and look professional no matter who you’re with.
I don’t know why my parents’ generation ever abandoned them.
That’s great except I have been told by my boss and my boss’s boss that me looking like a shlub gives me more technical credibility.
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
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.
Same reason no one shines their shoes anymore, a lot of shirts just don't need the same level of maintenance anymore
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.
plastic clothes doesn't seem to get wrinkled as easily, and i guess they shouldn't be ironed.
Maybe I just care less but none of the wrinkles in my clothes seem noticeable enough to need ironing.
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. Lululemon plastic also doesn’t really take to ironing.