@robb@social.lol I was thinking about this the week before last, ironing everything for a daft dressing-up scenario of dinner jacket bow tie cummerbund wing-collar type of thing, to look like James Bond or something, so I ironed all my other shirts too while I was at it

It occurred to me that ironing has a phenomenal ecological signature, and the idea of having ‘pressed’ clothing goes back to, for example, the fashion ethos of Beau Brummell of Regency times and the Dandy idea – he popularised the fastidious attention to pressing and ironing the linen shirt as if it really mattered, and given what a victim of excess he in his life turned out to be it probably isn’t a good idea that we persist in such idolisation of suits and shirts today as a normalised expectation of simply going about our day