Carrying an ironed shirt - Page 2

"Fran" <fgriffin@iol.ie> wrote in message news:<91M9a.762$pK2.1151@news.indigo.ie>...
> Cover the ironed shirt in the plastic wrapping your suits come back from the dry cleaners in and
> fold over loosely two or three times. I generally leave the shirt on a wire hanger and carry it
> this way in a small backpack. The plastic seems to prevent creasing.
>
> Good luck
>
> Fran

Thanks to everyone who has replied. I will check out all your suggestions.

Cheers again for the suggestions & experiences.

--ChrisB (terrifying the cage-commuters of Norwich starting next week - be afraid, etc).

i bought a proper suit/clothes carrier pannier bag. quite big, but again, would only need to take it
mon am and fri pm.

soph

On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 21:30:13 +0000, Johnny Klunk wrote (in message
<b48el5$kmf$1@sparta.btinternet.com>):

>> Any experiences or suggns appreciated. Cheap'n'cheerful preferred - totally boracic. Thanks.
>
>
> I take my shirts in, folded carefully, then wear then 4 times - hanging them up each night
> afterwards. It sounds afwul, but I usually wear a t-shirt underneath and am careful not to spill
> my food down them. So they're kept pretty clean and only worn 9-5. Good quality shirts make a huge
> difference too. They look fine after a few days wearing.
>
> Whatever you work out, cycling and getting changed at the other end isnt nearly as hard as I
> thought it would be. I spray plenty of deoderant and aftershave around - noone's complained about
> a bad smell yet...
>

Don't fold, roll!

"Chris Bardell" <tessier-ashpool@usa.net> wrote in message
news:9f261edc.0303060150.3f4dc96b@posting.google.com...
> Hi all,
>
> Doesn't sound cycling-related, but for next month or two I'm working at a different site, approx
> 45mins walk from home. So, about to start cycle-commuting.
>
> Corporate environment, so it's shirt&tie etc. Able to store shoes, trousers, tie etc in a suitbag
> at the office. Planning on wearing my cycling gear on the way in & changing when I get there.
>
> Anyone know a good way of carrying an ironed shirt with me? Can you get shirt boxes or something?
> Have tried a trawl of the net without luck, but wasn't sure exactly what to search on.
>
> Any experiences or suggns appreciated. Cheap'n'cheerful preferred - totally boracic. Thanks.
>
> --ChrisB

Chris Bardell wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Doesn't sound cycling-related, but for next month or two I'm working at a different site, approx
> 45mins walk from home. So, about to start cycle-commuting.
>
> Corporate environment, so it's shirt&tie etc. Able to store shoes, trousers, tie etc in a suitbag
> at the office. Planning on wearing my cycling gear on the way in & changing when I get there.
>
> Anyone know a good way of carrying an ironed shirt with me? Can you get shirt boxes or something?
> Have tried a trawl of the net without luck, but wasn't sure exactly what to search on.
>
> Any experiences or suggns appreciated. Cheap'n'cheerful preferred - totally boracic. Thanks.
>
> --ChrisB

as someone else said, good quality shirts help if you are "doubling/trebling up", which isn't as bad
as it sounds as you won't be wearing them as much like "normal" commuters will be doing. I just fold
carefully then hang them up as soon as i get into work, most creases don't show _that_ much. I take
one in on monday, the next on tuesday , to last the week. undies and socks each day. I have two
pairs of trousers and get them dry cleaned when required near to where I work. shoes also stay at
work. I have access to showers which I need after 14 miles

davep

Richard wrote:
> - other people have reported success with rolling the shirts up, but I tend to find this only
> works with suits.

Works for me. First I fold the shirt up neatly (right hand sleeve and a couple of inches of shirt
folded over to the left, then fold the sleeve down, do the same with the other side, then fold the
bottom of the shirt up to the collar). Then I lay a pair of boxer shorts and a pair of socks on top
of the shirt and roll everything around the socks. Been doing it for years with no problems.

--
Danny Colyer (remove safety to reply) ( http://www.juggler.net/danny ) Recumbent cycle page:
http://www.speedy5.freeserve.co.uk/recumbents/ "He who dares not offend cannot be honest." -
Thomas Paine

Chris Bardell wrote:
>
> Anyone know a good way of carrying an ironed shirt with me? Can you get shirt boxes or something?

Probably a briefcase pannier would be best (designed to hold papers without creasing, after all).
But put yourself ahead of the game by buying the sort of shirt that will more or less iron itself,
like the travel suit ones Rohan do.

Pete.
--
Peter Clinch University of Dundee Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Medical Physics, Ninewells Hospital
Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK net p.j.clinch@dundee.ac.uk
http://www.dundee.ac.uk/~pjclinch/

Colin Blackburn wrote: Lie a buttoned-up, ironed shirt button-
> side down on a table. Take a chunky women's mag

I'm reminded of a conversation with a soldier, who was telling me that they used to put a piece of
stiffish paper into their shirts and t-shirts prior to folding top to bottom; it kept the middle
crease of a decent radius and helped prevent creasing, but they were "severely chastised" :-) if
they were caught doing it.

R.

news:b48a8t$6dp$1@news6.svr.pol.co.uk...

> > Travel iron
>
> What's one of them then?

Its one of those things which helps to explain why, when you go away for a
w/e your stuff fits in a tescos bag while her stuff (iron, hair dryer, curling tongs, selection of
ball gowns, etc. requires the intervention of Pickfords.

slob mode on/

I assume its an iron designed for travel.

But that does not explain what and "iron" is

/off slob mode

tessier-ashpool@usa.net (Chris Bardell) wrote in message
news:<9f261edc.0303060150.3f4dc96b@posting.google.com>...
> Hi all,
>
> Doesn't sound cycling-related, but for next month or two I'm working at a different site, approx
> 45mins walk from home. So, about to start cycle-commuting.
>
> Corporate environment, so it's shirt&tie etc. Able to store shoes, trousers, tie etc in a suitbag
> at the office. Planning on wearing my cycling gear on the way in & changing when I get there.
>
> Anyone know a good way of carrying an ironed shirt with me? Can you get shirt boxes or something?
> Have tried a trawl of the net without luck, but wasn't sure exactly what to search on.
>
> Any experiences or suggns appreciated. Cheap'n'cheerful preferred - totally boracic. Thanks.
>
> --ChrisB

Chris, if you wear a jacket at the office then you can pratically fold your shirt any old way and
the jck will hide the creases. The folding properly system works, but even the "Shoulders together,
fold along the button line" method works. The only important thing is for me is to try to keep them
flat. I've never tried the "rolling" method. Before I had panniers I used to use a soft briefcase
strapped onto my rack - this works, as does a rucksac.

Personally I keep four suits, 12 ties, shoes and spare underwear at work, and, after forgetting my
shirt once, I often keep a spare one in a drawer as well. But I like dressing well at work.
Eventually you'll find a system which works well for you, it just may take a while. PACK YOUR BAG
BEFORE YOU GO TO BED. I've forgotten shirts, socks, shoes and underwear in my bleary eyed state in
the morning. Although if I iron my shirt in the evening I'll try and leave it on a hanger overnight
by my panniers, only folding it at the last minute - this just to give the shirt a chance to "air"
after ironing.

Enjoy SteveP

Following on from Chris Bardell's message. . .
>Corporate environment, so it's shirt&tie etc. Able to store shoes, trousers, tie etc in a suitbag
>at the office. Planning on wearing my cycling gear on the way in & changing when I get there.
Think laterally.

Bow tie and waistcoat[1]. Be dapper, be flamboyant, get up the noses of the M&S droids. Then you
have reduced the problem to not getting the sleeves too wrinkled. Roll the sleeves up in today's
well heated offices and the problem has practically vanished.

If God had meant us to iron he wouldn't have given us mums to knit us jumpers. That _really_ winds
up the droids.

[1] As just happen to be at <www.eminent.demon.co.uk/ritaw.htm>

--
PETER FOX Not the same since the deckchair business folded

Witham Cycling Campaign www.eminent.demon.co.uk/wcc.htm

"Chris Bardell" <tessier-ashpool@usa.net> wrote in message
news:9f261edc.0303060150.3f4dc96b@posting.google.com...
>
> Anyone know a good way of carrying an ironed shirt with me? Can you get shirt boxes or something?
> Have tried a trawl of the net without luck, but wasn't sure exactly what to search on.

Chris

I travelled round Europe on business for several years. I could pack a weeks stuff in a small sports
bag. There are four parts to the trick.

1. Fold nicely ironed shirts neatly following the general pattern used by M&S at new though
without all the packing stuff & pins.

2. Lay them in the bag fairly flat and pack other stuff round them reasonably tight.

3. Wear a jacket over the shirt for at least 30 minutes first thing to 'iron out' the
worst creases.

4. Don't get too self conscious about a little crease here and there.

T

Tony W wrote:

> news:b48a8t$6dp$1@news6.svr.pol.co.uk...
>
>>> Travel iron
>>
>> What's one of them then?
>

>
> Its one of those things which helps to explain why, when you go away for a w/e your stuff fits in
> a tescos bag while her stuff (iron, hair dryer, curling tongs, selection of ball gowns, etc.
> requires the intervention of Pickfords.
>

>
> slob mode on/
>
> I assume its an iron designed for travel.
>
> But that does not explain what and "iron" is
>
> /off slob mode
>
>

Take piece of iron. Make into complicated dimond type shape. Add wheels, handlebars and other
accessories and voila - a travel iron. :-)
--
Mark

In message <9f261edc.0303060150.3f4dc96b@posting.google.com>, Chris Bardell
<tessier-ashpool@usa.net> writes
>Hi all,
>
>Doesn't sound cycling-related, but for next month or two I'm working at a different site, approx
>45mins walk from home. So, about to start cycle-commuting.
>
>Corporate environment, so it's shirt&tie etc. Able to store shoes, trousers, tie etc in a suitbag
>at the office. Planning on wearing my cycling gear on the way in & changing when I get there.

Do you need to do that? I just cycle in dressed for work, suit-type trousies and an ironed shirt.
I go out on house visits in the same kit, nobody's complained of the smell or the wrinkles yet.
Clean sweat dries fairly odourless, I think. I do put the shoes in the pannier and cycle in
wellies when it's wet, and I also cycle a bit slower - to avoid arriving absolutely drenched in
sweat - in the morning.

Anyone else tried it - or is someone going to tell me that they used my professional services and,
god, that doctor was not only rude, paunchy, and incompetent, but also stank?

--
Richard Keatinge

http://www.topica.com/lists/cyclingdoctors/

brings cycling health professionals together

In article <$kXoARWWhma+EwVH@keatinge.demon.co.uk>, one of infinite monkeys at the keyboard of
Richard Keatinge <dr.richard@keatinge.net> wrote:

> Do you need to do that? I just cycle in dressed for work, suit-type trousies and an ironed shirt.

In my Dilbertian days I had no problem cycling in a working shirt - except perhaps in bare-back
high summer.

But suit-type trousers? No thanks; I don't want to sweat in something that's a hassle to wash. They
lived overnight over the back of my chair. Or are you using the term "suit-type" loosely?

--
Wear your paunch with pride!

nick@fenris.webthing.com (Nick Kew) wrote in message news:<uqrd4b.9n1.ln@jarl.webthing.com>...
> In article <$kXoARWWhma+EwVH@keatinge.demon.co.uk>, one of infinite monkeys at the keyboard of
> Richard Keatinge <dr.richard@keatinge.net> wrote:
>
> > Do you need to do that? I just cycle in dressed for work, suit-type trousies and an ironed
> > shirt.
>
> In my Dilbertian days I had no problem cycling in a working shirt - except perhaps in bare-back
> high summer.
>
> But suit-type trousers? No thanks; I don't want to sweat in something that's a hassle to wash.
> They lived overnight over the back of my chair. Or are you using the term "suit-type" loosely?

Quite right. If the OP doesn't want to get sweaty then it's easy to come in in your working clothes,
if you don't mind ruining a pair of trousers every six months or so. I recall a similar thread maybe
about a year ago where someone suggested buying "commuting trousers" from cheap (charity) shops.

And I've got a couple of pairs of cheap polycotton chino type trousers which I can cycle in if I
have to. But since I've got to buy lycra etc for normal cycling it seems daft to ruin a perfectly
good pair of trousers when I've got the shorts in the drawer anyway.

I'm a suit person - I don't get on with a jacket and trous. With a suit at anything from £100 up I
expect to get at least two years wear before I even have to think about buying another, and if I
cycled in the trousers there is no way I'd get anything like that. It's simple economics - it's
cheaper for me to cycle to work in relatively cheap lycra than a relatively expensive suit. It all
depends on what you like to wear at work, and the size of your wallet. I like to wear suits, and
I've got a small wallet. SteveP