That actually looks like it might work. Any idea where you can order just a few plastic ziploc bags big enough to fit a suit into?

brap: I really should learn how to do that but I'll never be anal enough to care. I generally can't be bothered to iron things either. So I try to get by on my rumpled charm.



"Just one more thing, sir?"

Kredal: I have NEVER been able to fold a button down shirt the way they get them in the bag the first time. Of course, I've never seen it done before. Now I have.

I learned something today! Thanks, Fark!

Judging from the easy crease that the clerk made of the shirt's folds, I would guess that the shirt he used was actually freshly removed from the packaging.

There's no way a the sleeves of a well-worn and well-washed shirt is going to fold so easily with as little pressure as he used, as far away from the fold as he did.

/internet pessimist guy

That shiat's too complicated:

-- Buy a garment bag
-- put stuff in there so that when you bend the bag closed, the clothes bend backwards (stomach side out). Lay the sleeves of your blazer/suit jacket over the chest of the jacket as smoothly as you can.
-- When you get where you're going, hang them as soon as possible, never on a skinny metal hanger.

The little bit of wrinkling that remains on the back of your clothes won't matter, since that much wrinkling is going to happen the first time you sit down anyway...and that's not the "first impression" side anyway.

Scrotastic Method: That shiat's too complicated:

-- Buy a garment bag
-- put stuff in there so that when you bend the bag closed, the clothes bend backwards (stomach side out). Lay the sleeves of your blazer/suit jacket over the chest of the jacket as smoothly as you can.
-- When you get where you're going, hang them as soon as possible, never on a skinny metal hanger.

The little bit of wrinkling that remains on the back of your clothes won't matter, since that much wrinkling is going to happen the first time you sit down anyway...and that's not the "first impression" side anyway.

1. Hire an Asian dude.

Wise_Guy: Scrotastic Method: That shiat's too complicated:

-- Buy a garment bag
-- put stuff in there so that when you bend the bag closed, the clothes bend backwards (stomach side out). Lay the sleeves of your blazer/suit jacket over the chest of the jacket as smoothly as you can.
-- When you get where you're going, hang them as soon as possible, never on a skinny metal hanger.

The little bit of wrinkling that remains on the back of your clothes won't matter, since that much wrinkling is going to happen the first time you sit down anyway...and that's not the "first impression" side anyway.

1. Hire an Asian dude.

-Buy a suit when you get to your destination
-Leave the tags on
-Return the suit after you're done wearing it.

TOO MUCH PRESSURE (new window)

If all goes according to my plan, the next time I have to wear wear a suit, someone else will have to slice it up the back....

People still wear suits? Huh.

mr_a: Dayglo Brown:
1. Hire an Asian dude.

-Buy a suit when you get to your destination
-Leave the tags on
-Return the suit after you're done wearing it.


Never did that, but I did store a suit a a dry-cleaner in 4 different cities that I used to visit all the time. Worked pretty well. I'd land, pick up the suit, wear it, then drop it off for cleaning /pressing.

That's a great idea if you are in those cities often enough. Just be careful with the dry cleaning. I've read every where that you really shouldn't dry clean a suit more than once every 3 months or so because the chemicals do a lot of damage to the material.

This would never pass with my dirty hipster roommates in college. I'll betcha they would roll up their grey imitation suit and slacks and fold them into a used pizza box. I miss watching them iron their outfits. It was so disgusting.

Bah! Humbug! He left out the tissue paper. Without tissue paper it is going to wrinkle.

/derp

Diagonal: Bah! Humbug! He left out the tissue paper. Without tissue paper it is going to wrinkle.

Link (new window)

/derp

Thanks Subby! I am flying Hong Kong to Shanghai next week and will give it a try

(I hate ironing drunk)

The correct baginess of your clothes should have the bottom of the shirt near your finger tips when you relax your arm. Jeans can come in variety of sizes; baggy, baggy, and casual-baggy, and shorts. Create some combinations, wear baggy jeans when you have a baggy hoodie, baggy jeans for a shirt, casual-baggy jeans with probably like a sleeveless shirt, and shorts for polos.

brap: I really should learn how to do that but I'll never be anal enough to care. I generally can't be bothered to iron things either. So I try to get by on my rumpled charm.

I don't own an iron, so this is why I usually wear a suitcoat. The suitcoat doesn't get wrinkled at all, and it and the tie largely hide the fact that the shirt is wrinkled mess.

Last time I wore a suit other than the rental tux at my wedding was at my first real job interview 21 years ago. I never plan on wearing another (rental or otherwise). If some place is so fancy that I have to wear a suit, I won't be there. Casual pants and a nice shirt are about as fancy as I get, don't even own a tie anymore.

fillg: Last time I wore a suit other than the rental tux at my wedding was at my first real job interview 21 years ago. I never plan on wearing another (rental or otherwise). If some place is so fancy that I have to wear a suit, I won't be there. Casual pants and a nice shirt are about as fancy as I get, don't even own a tie anymore.

But what we're really dying to know is whether or not you own a TV.

Accolade: But what we're really dying to know is whether or not you own a TV.

I would also be interested in whether Mr. Sanctimony owns a car.

No sobbery like reverse snobbery.

Watch it again. The man can fold a suit but his TIE is INSIDE OUT!

If I owned a suit that would have been informative.

Fold like a boss!

Accolade: But what we're really dying to know is whether or not you own a TV.

I do, several of them. I watch them frequently while reading the comments of a bunch of farktards. How about you?

meyerkev: brap: I really should learn how to do that but I'll never be anal enough to care. I generally can't be bothered to iron things either. So I try to get by on my rumpled charm.

I don't own an iron, so this is why I usually wear a suitcoat. The suitcoat doesn't get wrinkled at all, and it and the tie largely hide the fact that the shirt is wrinkled mess.

That's why I like vests and sweaters.

Wise_Guy

>>>>>> Scrotastic Method: That shiat's too complicated:
>>>>>> -- Buy a garment bag

1. Hire an Asian dude.

They're not as cheep as they once were.