Does a school shirt really need ironing?

[SummerHouse]

Surely not.

I had this conversation with DS.

Me: look, if you want your shirts ironing, you need to do it ok.
DS: Ok, I don't think they need doing.
Me: no, it's hardly creased at all. (It's non iron but we all know that's a bit of an oxymoron)
The End - mother son like minded bonding session done.

30 mins later.

DP: I'm going to iron his shirts.
Me: why, they don't need it and I told him he needs to do it. That's some shirt ironing you are signing up for. Two DC, years of school, shirt a day = one million shirts.
DP: (disappointed but not surprised look) they do need ironing. I am doing it.

Context: they wear a blazer which he has so far not taken off. Whilst I would agree if he was just wearing a shirt, it would need ironing. However if you lined up two boys in blazers one ironed shirt and one not, there is no flipping way you could pick out which was which.

DP is the princess from princess and the pea.

My son wears pure cotton m&s shirts because he finds poly cotton too hot. I don't iron them...I hang them on a hanger when they're still wet.

He has a blazer on 95% of the time and I have more important things to spend my energy on.

I wouldn't let him screw them up in a ball or anything but ironing, no.

DH and I always ironed all our 4 DCs clothes and uniforms, even school polo shirts which I hated ironing as the creases would still be there after going over and over the bloody things! Thankfully they are finished as last DC is at secondary.

It only takes me 5 mins to iron 5 shirts. it’s not hard. I always used to feel sorry for DC sent to primary school with unironed clothes . There was quite a few in my youngest’s class as opposed to my older one’s.

I always used to feel sorry for DC sent to primary school with unironed clothes Why? I doubt the children noticed.

I've never ironed a school shirt, they are at university now

Yes they need ironing.

Is the school doing to discipline him for having a wrinkled shirt? If not, the shirt doesn't need to be ironed. The child wearing it doesn't care and the school doesn't care, so why invent problems out of nowhere? And if the child wearing it did care, it sounds like he's old enough to do it himself if he really cares that much.

They need ironing, especially the M&S non iron ones.

I do not iron... non-iron school shirts can be dried on hangers and look perfectly fine!

I never iron these days and in a whatsapp chat with a male friend who loves to iron, I said that was why I always looked scruffy.

He said" you dont look scruffy, just......endearingly crumpled"

I've never noticed (or at least in anything other than passing) a kid in an unironed shirt. Dirty, yes, spidey sense goes off on that, but lack of ironing is a non-issue to me if it's clean. But I do hate ironing.

What the hell is this 'iron' you all speak of?

Ds's school shirts are from Asda, wash and tumble, straight onto a hanger, no ironing here unless I absolutely have to. My Mum loved ironing, we tried to get her therapy. My sister irons tea towels FFS.

My sister irons tea towels FFS.
I iron tea towels! Some of them anyway. Not the ones that are actual towelling type material, but definitely the flat cotton ones.

Shake them straight from the wash and put them on a hanger. We don’t iron in this house.

Yes definitely should be ironed.

Its all about standards and self respect at the end of the day.

Global warming. Doing my bit. I hate ironing

They are not allowed to take their blazer off. They will be crashed by bag straps and seatbelts and they have probably sat on the damn things too. DD is responsible for putting washing away in their one shared wardrobe so they would need doing every day.

I have two disabilities. If I iron I don't do something else. Not enough "spoons"

Buy non iron and hang them up

I've put clothes on hangers straight from the washing machine - they do not look the same. Iron an almost identical item, compare side by side. They look different (unless it's a material that doesn't crease).

And 3 seconds after being put on it's impossible to tell the difference.

I never ironed a school shirt.

I don't iron school shirts (but usually buy M and S non-iron ones so they're not too creased) or, in fact, any other clothes. Life's too short.

Why do you care if you’re not doing it?

I've lived in my house for 3 years OP and never felt compelled to find the iron.

Can tell from a mile off people who don't iron their clothes

I can see from a mile of the rare child with an ironed shirt - they are usually the kids terrified of getting dirty and often have gelled hair or unbelievably neat hair sprayed plats.

Its all about standards and self respect at the end of the day

I don’t need an ironed shirt to have self respect!

This exact scenario must be being played out around numerous houses tonight as I dealt with this tonight and it resulted in an argument

I asked him to iron kids polo shirts whilst doing his own (I usually always do them all and his and work full time). He ironed them really badly. I made a comment - have you seen this- and he took it badly very badly. I'm sure he did it badly so he won't be asked again

Ironing is bad for the environment.

As is washing your sheets and towels daily...

But Mumsnet be crazy

I’ve stopped ironing DCs uniform period. It always straightens itself out once it’s on!