Question from Cheryl
Hi Debra and all,
Can you recommend any wrinkle free or highly wrinkle resistant clothing brands/merchants or lines in general, but especially for men’s button down shirts? Timewise, ironing just isn’t an option and since we know how toxic dry cleaning is, for several years we’ve been buying wrinkle free shirts only to discover how toxic they are. If you can’t recommend specific merchants, are there certain things to look for concerning the fabric content to insure least toxicity and greatest resistant to wrinkles? Does it matter where it is made because many of them are made in Thailand, China, India, Indonesia etc. Thank you so very much.
Debra’s Answer
Sorry, I don’t think there are any button-down shirts that are nontoxic and wrinkle-free.
I don’t have a lot of time to iron either, so I choose clothing that doesn’t wrinkle much. Mostly I wear knit tops and cotton sheeting pants, and in the wintertime, corduroy and flannel. But I am not going to an office everyday. Clothing was one of the reasons I decided to work at home.
I’ve learned that if I take my clothes out of the dryer immediately and don’t let them sit in a tumble, they don’t wrinkle much. I just shake them out and hang or fold or roll them up and put them away. Of course, this isn’t a crisp iron, but I don’t need that.
If you don’t want to iron your cotton shirts, wash them yourself and take them to a dry cleaners for “iron only.”
