Gregory's ServerRight? We had to iron in the 90's & early 00's because the fabric was heavy enough to last for a decade or two. Now many clothes are so much easier, you just buy them, wear them a few times and they're worn out so you buy new ones. Progress!
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 Irons are definitely needed for most sewing! My grandmother had an amazing laundry/sewing room with multiple irons.  @Frances_Larina @failedLyndonLaRouchite @robb Progress! Marching ever onward to extinction of life on Earth!  @Frances_Larina @failedLyndonLaRouchite @robb Genuine question: Is it really just lower fabric quality that makes e.g. business shirts “non-iron”? Or is it some other properties of the fabric, such as the weave, that makes it less prone to wrinkling? (I’m thinking of business shirts here, bit fast fashion) @Frances_Larina @failedLyndonLaRouchite @robb (scrolls down a little further in the thread) Ok everyone, it looks like our patron saint on Team Fuck Ironing is Ruth R. Benerito, who in the 1950s invented a process to make cotton wrinkle-free: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_R._Benerito Plus of course the hippies and other assorted subcultures, who freed us from the tyranny of having to dress properly. @slothrop @Frances_Larina @failedLyndonLaRouchite @robb here's an overview of some wrinkle resistant finishes: basically, coat the fabric in a resin. Which kind does your shirt have? No, we're not going to put that on the label for you. @slothrop @Frances_Larina @failedLyndonLaRouchite @robb an investigation into wrinkle resistant coatings and other chemicals in clothing @Frances_Larina @failedLyndonLaRouchite @robb The treatments to reduce wrinkling aren't what is reducing the life of garments. I've got a couple of items left from the 1990s and I don't iron them. Fast fashion is a problem, but I don't believe it's the cause of not ironing. Rising popularity of tumble driers is likely a bigger impact. @justNickoli @failedLyndonLaRouchite @robb Garments now are made with much inferior fabrics. Some are no-iron, some are not. But all are thinner and have weaker threads. They literally wear out quicker. |
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and our parents did a lot of sewing - my mom had a machine, and a whole bunch of those paper patterns