Recommend any genuinely comfortable "non-iron" shirts brands?

shiphen

Gentlemen, can you recommend a brand of shirt that genuinely does not need ironing, but is soft, comfortable and smart enough for office work & formal occasions?

I am UK based. I have tried "non-iron" shirts from ctshirts .co.uk here in the UK, which some friends seem to use, but personally I found them to feel like cardboard and are extremely uncomfortable on the skin almost immediately.

Maybe something “drip-dry” made out of a “poly-cotton” / ”polyester-cotton mix”... ? I need them for office work. I want to dry my shirts on a hanger and save both time & money by not iron having to iron the darned things...

Mantra: "Men against ironing!"

Many thanks

J

PS Ladies I understand that in general you seldom need to iron work clothes, I'm not 100% sure how or why. Possibly it is partly because your clothing is more tight-fitting. It sounds like folding your cloths after they have been dried is generally enough. But if possible, I don't want to even have to waste time doing folding either(!).

Biggles

I'm perfectly happy ironing, but I did pick up a Ralph Lauren Non Iron shirt that is 100% cotton last year. Very soft and comfortable. But I iron it anyway!

HappyMJ

You could employ the services of either an organization or someone who irons clothes for a living.

It is £1.44 per shirt ironed across the road where I live.

5 shirts would therefore cost you £7.20 per week.

46.4 working weeks would cost you £334.08/year or £27.84 per month.

I don't think that's too bad a price to pay for someone to iron your shirts for you.

shiphen

Biggles wrote: »

I'm perfectly happy ironing, but I did pick up a Ralph Lauren Non Iron shirt that is 100% cotton last year. Very soft and comfortable. But I iron it anyway!

I suppose some people somewhere actually iron for pleasure.

I do not. Life is way too short and [no offence but] "a life" is what I intend to get!

J

shiphen

HappyMJ wrote: »

You could employ the services of either an organization or someone who irons clothes for a living.

It is £1.44 per shirt ironed across the road where I live.

5 shirts would therefore cost you £7.20 per week.

46.4 working weeks would cost you £334.08/year or £27.84 per month.

I don't think that's too bad a price to pay for someone to iron your shirts for you.

I hear you, but I am here to SAVE money (and time).

Moreover you still have the hassle of getting the shirts to the ironer, and getting the shirts back.

If using a tumble-dryer:
- You have the financial cost of tumble drying.
- Plus the horrendous carbon foot-print of tumble-drying.
- Plus the abrasion damage done to shirts by tumble-drying.

- Plus some shirts are not supposed to be tumble-dried and are "air-dry" only.

- Plus more fragile shirt finishes may get damaged by the outsourced ironing person.

I am hoping to put my each freshly washed shirt onto a hanger once, and when dry, put straight into the wardrobe.
==> No ironing, no folding for ironing, not extra hassle of pickup/delivery, no extra money, no shirt damage by ironer, no gradual shirt damage by tumble-dryer, no looking scruffy in the office and no irritating abrasion of "cardboard" on skin.

What I don't know is whether such a even shirt exists!

Grenage

I don't think they exist, you'll just look like a tramp!

I just do them in large batches. You could wear the same shirt for more days; not necessarily consecutively...

AnnieO1234

Sorry but there is no such thing as a non-iron shirt that doesn't benefit from an iron. Depending on your work role and ambition I would seriously consider sending your ironing out. Even just the shirts usually work out at around £1 each. Xxx

HappyMJ

shiphen wrote: »

I hear you, but I am here to SAVE money (and time).

Moreover you still have the hassle of getting the shirts to the ironer, and getting the shirts back.

If using a tumble-dryer:
- You have the financial cost of tumble drying.
- Plus the horrendous carbon foot-print of tumble-drying.
- Plus the abrasion damage done to shirts by tumble-drying.

- Plus some shirts are not supposed to be tumble-dried and are "air-dry" only.

- Plus more fragile shirt finishes may get damaged by the outsourced ironing person.

I am hoping to put my each freshly washed shirt onto a hanger once, and when dry, put straight into the wardrobe.
==> No ironing, no folding for ironing, not extra hassle of pickup/delivery, no extra money, no shirt damage by ironer, no gradual shirt damage by tumble-dryer, no looking scruffy in the office and no irritating abrasion of "cardboard" on skin.

What I don't know is whether such a even shirt exists!

If the intention of this site is to save money then save your money paying over the odds for allegedly non-iron shirts which really do need a light touch with an iron and buy a good quality cotton shirt and iron them properly yourself or get someone to do it for you for a small fee whilst you are out there earning some decent money.

Drop the washed shirts off on your way to work and pick them up on the way back. What's that going to take 5 minutes. You can if you had 12 shirts get them to collect 10 of them every 2 weeks and wash, dry and iron them for you. It's only £30 for 10 shirts to fully collect, wash, dry, iron and drop off. That would take you possibly 2 hours to wash, dry and iron them so if you can earn more than £20 per hour then it's well worth considering. If you can get shirts from your employer with your company logo on them then it could even be a tax deduction.

If you really hate ironing then see if you can wear polo shirts which don't require as much ironing.

shiphen

HappyMJ wrote: »

If the intention of this site is to save money then save your money paying over the odds for allegedly non-iron shirts which really do need a light touch with an iron and buy a good quality cotton shirt and iron them properly yourself or get someone to do it for you for a small fee whilst you are out there earning some decent money.

Drop the washed shirts off on your way to work and pick them up on the way back. What's that going to take 5 minutes. You can if you had 12 shirts get them to collect 10 of them every 2 weeks and wash, dry and iron them for you. It's only £30 for 10 shirts to fully collect, wash, dry, iron and drop off. That would take you possibly 2 hours to wash, dry and iron them so if you can earn more than £20 per hour then it's well worth considering. If you can get shirts from your employer with your company logo on them then it could even be a tax deduction.

If you really hate ironing then see if you can wear polo shirts which don't require as much ironing.

Good quality cotton shirts (e.g. at Brooks Bros or Eton shirts) cost over £100 each. Twelve shirts would be £1200 invested in shirt.

It's tricky. I work from home a fair bit. On those days it's true that I don't need a smart shirt, (but even then I do still need at least a folded shirt for wearing socially) but when I do commute, it's fairly irregular with unpredictable journeys to clients and I don't pass any cleaning companies (that I know of), certainly not regularly!

Working from home means the actual washing and drying bit is trivial - takes up close to zero personal time, and paying for someone else to wash & dry seems wasteful borderline decadent. However it's the folding and ironing bit that is painfully time consuming.

PS Poloshirt are definitely not an option - also I hate them!

HappyMJ

shiphen wrote: »

Good quality cotton shirts (e.g. at Brooks Bros or Eton shirts) cost over £100 each. Twelve shirts would be £1200 invested in shirt.

It's tricky. I work from home a fair bit. On those days it's true that I don't need a smart shirt, (but even that I do still need at least a folded shirt for wearing socially) but when I do commute, it's fairly irregular and I don't pass any cleaning companies (that I know of), certainly not regularly.

Working from home means the actual washing and drying bit is trivial - takes up close to zero personal time, and paying for someone else to wash & dry seems wasteful borderline decadent. However it's the folding and ironing bit that is painfully time consuming.

There's dozens around me and I live in a town. (Burton on Trent).

Yes good shirts are very expensive. If you work as an executive or aim to be at the top you need to wear good quality shirts. As you know £10 shirts from Primark won't cut it when you're trying to impress.

If you only wear each shirt once every two weeks they should last you quite a number of years before needing to be replaced.

You could just simply take the shirt off at night and hang it in the airing cupboard without washing and you can wear it again in two weeks time without needing to wash, dry and iron again.

You could use a steamer which will refresh the shirt without washing or ironing.

shiphen

HappyMJ wrote: »

You could just simply take the shirt off at night and hang it in the airing cupboard without washing and you can wear it again in two weeks time without needing to wash, dry and iron again.

You could use a steamer which will refresh the shirt without washing or ironing.

I know this theory. My kilt stocking which are hand-knitted and woolen and a right pain to wash will after a number of months miraculously clean themselves. Sort of!

However this doesn't really work for me. I slight skin condition and even slightly unclean clothing (e.g. recent sweat) will cause itching and eventually a fungal rash to break out.

I shall have another think about exploiting cheap foreign labour, but I would still much prefer to find some shirts that need little or no ironing. Does such a thing even exist? I am beginning to think not. Although someone else recommended Brooks Bros shirts (at £100+ each) that conceivably may do the job.

J