Do you take care of a man's dress shirts?

For years my husband ironed his own shirts, no starch. For a couple years his mom did it for him, even while we were married. Once in a very great while I would iron one or two, but too few to count. In the last 8 years we have had them laundered (we have been married 20 years). There have been a few years here and there where my husband could go to work in casual clothes, and so he wore dress shirts only about half the time while employed at those companies.

My husband wears jeans and a t-shirt to work, so no.

I used to and used spray starch- the stiff kind. Then I took them to the dry cleaners to be done. Now I don’t have to do any of that anymore.

I don’t wear dress shirts. Either I wear polo or rugby shirts 98% of the time.

I always make sure I buy shirts for my husband that are dressy but don’t need all that.

If they’re clean I toss them in my clean pile. I put them in the dryer for 10 minutes to unwrinkle them. If they’ve been worn a few times I spray them with something that smells nice and stick ‘em in the dryer.

No I don’t. On the rare occasion, we use the dryer & dryer sheet method. Ironing is a last resort lol

I used to iron (with starch) my ex-husband’s dress shirts when he first started having to wear them for work. He’d iron his own if I didn’t get to it. Soon enough, we realized it was more than worth the cost to just take them to the dry cleaner.

I wear dress shirts to work every day. I have them professionally laundered. But the big no-no is Don’t starch shirts! It ruins the shirt and any benefit tio appearance is gone by mid morning anyway.

Nordstrom has big signs in its Men’s Department that say “We recommend never using starch on a shirt.”

I would never do this. Nor would I expect him to care for my shirts.

The starch does ruin the shirts. It turns the fabric into paper over time and tears easily.

Never. I had a traumatic experience trying to iron my own clothes as a small child. If it needs to be ironed then I send it to the dry cleaners.

Many years ago, I was a software developer for an insurance company. They made us wear those absurd clothes (shirt/tie) even though we would never be in front of a customer. I would spend too much time ironing a shirt the night before. But by the time I made it to work after an hour on the subway and running across Boston, my shirt would look like an autumn leaf – with a lot less color.
I considered getting my shirts laundered, but decided a more reasonable job was a better choice.
Anyway, I’m surprised to hear that women iron shirts for grown men.

I don’t think my husband owns a shirt that requires ironing.

I do send my son to school in button-down shirts that I do iron. No starch though. I had more than enough starch when I had to iron church clothes for a family of five three times a week for eleven years.

<—- uses cleaners with a perk.

I have worked a secret arrangement with my cleaner. They have loads of nice shirts never picked up by customers. They are not responsible after six months. I pay the bill on them and get bunches of nice new looking shirts for the cost of a happy meal.

Suits too!

don’t tell anyone

@RealEyesRealizeRealLies That’s amazing! But it also sounds like the beginning of a spy movie. Watch your back.

No, I don’t do that, for many many reasons and I wouldn’t call myself a ‘housewife’ either – not a label that fits me, in any sense. I’m not downplaying or denigrating the term, just not a label for me.

Glad to say it’s not my problem but when I was married, he ironed his own or took them to the laundry.

Not something I would ever do. My ex knew how to use an iron and I never expected him to iron my clothes.

Nope. My ex got mad because I told him to go to the dry cleaners. Are you freaking kidding me? Ironing is so archaic, I haven’t even owned and iron since about 1983. lol

Thanks for the warning @glacial. I’ll start burning the ones with blood stains.

was kinda puzzled by those

I do all his laundry. I do 99% of all the housework. I love taking care of him, really love it.

I just toss shit in the dryer before I need to wear it.

I would if I needed to. I wouldn’t enjoy it though. I detest ironing!

@Simone_De_Beauvoir It’s all just a matter of comfort and preference. I’ve met plenty of male homemakers who are proud to call themselves “househusbands.”

Feminism was supposed to be about choices. Women were to get options; nobody could demand or expect them to become homemakers, and they could join the workforce if they chose or needed to do so. Sadly, somewhere along the way, “housewife” became a dirty word (in any social setting, I stop conversation in its tracks when I say that I’m a housewife). Actually, a hard-working homemaker – someone who prepares meals, does the housework, and runs the errands – provides a great service and puts in long hours and much effort.