Creases ironed into a shirt sleeve - non-U?

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DH maintains shirt creases are fine and everyone at work has them. I maintain he's wrong!

Which one of us is right?

This is actually a thing? Why?

Oh God, this is actually quite sinister, all to do with keeping people in their place.

I didn't know only the lower ranks had to iron creases, but it makes sense. If they have to spend all their time off ironing, they won't have time to cause "trouble"

I was taught to iron by the Army & all my shirts have creases you could peel an apple with!!

My T-shirts make me look like a plane, the creases make the sleeves stick out like wings....

I didn't know only the lower ranks had to iron creases, but it makes sense.

That's rubbish - the same uniform has to have the same creases no matter who's wearing it - combats less so, but dress definitely.

In fact, the higher the rank the better the example you are expected to set....

I am on the point of going to the wardrobe to see if my maid irons creases I to my DH's shirts but I can't be bothered to get off my fat lazy ass.

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I don't know about the shirt creases but I think it's non-U to say non-U these days. Makes you look like you're trying too hard.

HTH

Ironing? People still iron these days?

I once ironed an absolutely enormous pile of shirts for husband (he stockpiles them and irons as he needs - drives me round the bend) it took me most of a day. When i proudly presented them to him on his return from work, his face dropped "but they've got creases down the sleeves" - apparently it's nerdy to have creases down the sleeves. I have not so much as wafted an iron in the general direction of any of his clothes ever since btw.

My work uniform for a very naice retail chain has creases in the shirt and the trousers. Apparently a company with a royal warrant isn't U enough!

We're probably just 'staff' though

i iron shirts with a crease and trousers without as its faster
Ditto.
I'm amazed to discover that doing it the hard way - without creases - is a thing. Ironing is pointless enough anyway without making it worse!

The only creases that are completely wrong in a sleeve are tramlines.

Thank you for the incentive to get on with the ironing, OP. I'd hate to think I was inadvertently being U by wearing clothes without the regulation creases! Lol

Christ - chippy here. He works in an environment where, unfortunately, it does matter. But I'm clearly ignorant as I don't know the answer.

DH whinged when I ironed creases in his shirts, so I told him he could have creases, or do his own bloody ironing.

He discovered non-iron shirts

I can't even picture a shirt without creases down the sleeves.

Unless it's a 'going out' shirt, then fair enough but proper shirts should have a crisp crease down the sleeve.

Not that I ever iron anything shirts. DH does all his.

Office/work culture can fixate on some very odd things.

The non-U idea probably comes from the fact that it takes more time to iron a shirt thoroughly and avoid sleeve creases, so by wearing a shirt without such creases you were showing off to the world that you could afford the staff!

Fashions change, though, and apparently the sleeve crease is now more in demand from executives and office workers, who think it looks smarter.

I just hang my stuff up to dry very carefully when I've washed it and never iron anything. Anyone else wanting things ironed does it themselves.

Er silently actually it's in MOD rules that the RAF must have creases in the arms of the blue shirts!

Creases in shirt sleeves are wrong. DH is much better at ironing than me so he does most of it.