[Work Clothes] Reduce the wrinkles pre, during and post use

Horus

Hello,

I am trying to reduce the amount of wrinkles my corporate clothes. I know starch helps and is done during ironing but are there other methods especially I can use while wearing the clothes. How to maintain my clothes? Is there such thing as too much starch?

Currently I take my clothes to dry cleaners once a month but on a weekly basis I have DIY dry cleaning regimen where I use Vodka and Dryel products to clean and deodorize it.

Djeet

I don't use starch. I use undershirts and can sometimes get multiple wears out of a dress shirt with some physical smoothing (just with the hand) and letting it hang on a hanger for awhile, but I don't expect to. I have a lot more shirts than slacks, and I launder and iron them (the shirts) myself.

For dress pants you need to have enough so you can rotate them. Take them off when you get home and hang them on a hanger that facilitates gravity pulling out any wrinkles. I don't use the type that hang it from the knee, but the ones that hang them upside down from the cuff, like these. I have pleated slacks; flat-front may be more problematic.

illig

what clothes?

in my experience, slacks work best when they're 100% wool - if yours are all kinds of mixed fibers, cottons, etc. then try a wool pair - hang them up using a decent pant hanger like this one: and you should be fine. i dry clean my slacks after 5-10 uses and never see excessive wrinkles even though i can wear them through a 14hr day at work sometimes

for suits, similar approach applies - a wool suit tends to shed wrinkles in my experience - but the key to keeping your suit jacket nice is to take it off and hang it (on a nice, wide hanger) when you're sitting for a long time... otherwise the tails/flap will often get wrinkled up

for shirts, it's just a wear once and clean approach for me - i don't dry clean my shirts (even the 'dry clean only' ones) b/c it's just not cost effective... i find that a "wash and press" at my cleaners (~$2 each) rather than a dry clean ($5-6 each) does a great job, and after about a year it's time to replace the shirt anyway...

Gaslight

I find a bottle of Downy Wrinkle Releaser spray is always handy to have around.

Nija

I take my shirts out after the washer and hang dry them. After putting them on the hangar I firm pull from the bottom to, literally, pull out the wrinkles. I do this all the way around the bottom of the shirt and then on the sleeves. I haven't ironed in a few years and it has been glorious.

I recycle my trousers for a work week. MW = pant1. TTH = pant2. F = jeans. I have a similar approach to @Djeet for hanging them and let gravity do its work on them.

Horus

I pretty much follow all these steps and even leave my shirts in the shower so the steam helps with wrinkles. As lunch comes around my shirt and pants are wrinkled, I am noticing my coworkers shirts are not as bad as me. Just want to see if I am missing some secret or common knowledge of reducing wrinkles.

Thx for tips, going to Ikea to get dress pants hanger!

BlazeFire

Might be just a matter of the material they are made from. I'd expect higher end stuff to not wrinkle quite so easily.

Nija

Or they aren't working as hard as you are.

Horus

@Nija haha actually I am always running around compared to them but we all have different roles. They can sit all day. I am on the go