Let's talk about ironing for a change. Do you do any ironing? My mother-in-law was very proud that she ironed everything, including socks and underwear. My Granny used to iron bed sheets (non-fitted). I usually iron t-shirts, pillow cases, napkins, tablecloths and tea towels. The younger generation women don't seem to do any ironing at all (not surprising). What about you?
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
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Guy not girl, but I typically don't iron except for special occasions, weddings, funerals, etc. I work for my father in a financial field. When he first started as a young man under a local firm, he was required to wear a suit, ironed shirts/kakies also ironed, as well as a tie. The firm had a dress code basically.
ReplyDeleteBy the time he purchased ownership of his own firm, most people in this field were no longer wearing ties, and the jackets had gone. Today after after working for him for well quite some time. About half of everyone in this business wears jeans and a polo at least 1 day a week for the women its the jeans, and a kinda t-shirt/skirt? looking thing. Almost no one wears ties anymore, and the ironed buttoned all the way down shirts are still seen, but mostly on the more elderly men (boomers.) Most guys in town who are not boomers wear either jean and a t-shirt, or jeans/kakies and a polo shirt. (Still talking specifically about those in financial fields.) The suits are also more or less gone except for a few of the very old school lawyers, and in their case its probably force of habit more than anything else.
As for regular cloths, quite frankly I couldn't care less. I have no one to impress, nor any particular desire to wear ironed cloths, so like I said I don't with exceptions for the events listed above. Its just not worth putting the effort in as it does nothing for me, nor does it benefit me in any way.
- W
I iron all my and my husband's clothing. I'm not a fan of whatever is in the fabrics that don't require ironing, so I have to. I check the label of every piece of clothing I buy to see if it's real fabric (cotton, linen, etc.) And yes, it limits what and how much I can buy.
ReplyDeleteFunny, I was in a shopping center yesterday. I usually avoid them. Anyway I noticed that only person who apparently possessed ironing board was a black delivery guy, who had most obviously ironed his striking white jeans. Everyone else seemed to be wearing lycra or jersey or other sorts of sports fabrics.
ReplyDeleteAnother thing: I hard really hard time going to ladies room, because there was none. Only scifi-looking very reduced signs with a) toilet seat and b) toilet seat and urinal, and then tiny text plate in another place saying "Hello special, "something lame about toilets"".
It took me about to decade to realize that those symbols ment toilet seats and urinal in the first place. Figuring out that I am to go to toilet without urinal was easier.
I suggest that ironing is nowadays concidered rebellous act.
W, I hardly would expect a man to iron. That's one thing around the house which my husband has always adamantly refused to do. Though he now says he sometimes did before he married. Personally I think he brought it to his mother:)
ReplyDeleteElspeth, I agree, I prefer natural fabrics, too. Clothes still need to be ironed sometimes, but I meant more household items such as towels, bed linen etc.
ReplyDeleteLOL. Oh, heavens no! I'll iron a tablecloth because it looks horrid on the table otherwise. But that's it. No sheets or other linens. Seems counterintuitive to iron those.
DeleteMe too, but only if it is a special occasion. Plus over here they make a wrinkle spray that you could just spray on your fabrics to make them unwrinkled.
DeleteBlanka, I remember going to a Catholic church once, long ago. We used to have one in our town, then it closed. The only person who was decently dressed was a black guy;)
ReplyDeleteI should say that the church we used to attend for several years had people dress more formally though. As for the toilets, several years ago they started talking about "gender neutral toilets" but they never became really popular over here. One thing which I find very irritating is men going to ladies' bathroom with their daughters/ to change babies. Even 10 years ago it didn't happen. This younger generation fathers would rather stay home and breastfeed than work. They send their wives to work. There is a lot of talk of building a strong army nowadays. I can't imagine them fighting, we would lose in a day. May be Germany would save us, they and the British seem to be the only Euro men who can actually fight. Oh yes, and Finns, too.
Well, now my coffee is on the screen of the computer! That comment about men who would rather stay home and breastfeed than work.....Now that was a spectacular observation! lol!
DeleteI would have been okay with being a stay at home husband. As a GenX male, what have I really received from work? Not much. Besides, don't women enjoy stupid meetings, a commute, and dumb work politics? I certainly don't.
DeleteYou see, there is a difference. Stay-at-home-husbands in the USA are supported by their wives. Personally I think these women are total idiots, but if they like it, it's really their business, not mine. Those so-called men I was talking about are making use of their "dad days", paid by the taxpayer. This is a recent development, no doubt promoted by the EU to further implement feminist agenda.
DeleteI just don't get it why we should subsidize young healthy men staying home playing around with their kids.
I have been ironing less lately because I pretend and play I live in Medieval times. Only if I need to do a quick visit in 2025 I wear something ironed.
ReplyDeleteAs to soldiers, GB doesn't seem to be able to even recruit enough to begin with. The Finns think they have some kind of warrior dna because of what happened 80 years ago. Generally speaking Western soldiers may have very idealistic view of war, but gaming does not make you strong enough to face the brutality of frontline (and hand grenades do not function in real life as they do in games; happened to see a sad video)
Well, now I need a blog or a youtube channel to watch your pretending. This time in history has fascinated me for a while now.
DeleteBefore going Medieval I did iron tea towels, aprons, pillow cases, handkerchiefs (yes I blow my nose in a real one) and any clothing that needed it.
ReplyDeleteIt was just recently when I was thinking about this very thing, how women in the past took pride for example in ironing.
I used to iron a lot but that was over 30 years ago. I got tired of ironing because I had the large family....many clothes...LOL! We do iron church clothes still. My dh was military and he irons his own. He irons better than me. He also taught/teaches the kids.
ReplyDelete( I told you I would probably read and comment if you made a homekeeping post. LOL!!!)
Anon, glad you liked it;)
ReplyDeleteMiriam, when I was younger, I basically ironed everything. Then I had a period when I did no ironing at all. Now I'm starting to iron again and I kinda like it. Probably because it gives me flashbacks and makes me feel like a newlywed, lol!
ReplyDeleteAs for my other comment, I based it on a report doing rounds on the internet where European men were asked whether they would defend their country during the war. 70+% of Finns that yes, they would, vs, I regret to tell you, 14% of the Dutch. Luckily, our men aren't the most cowardly, as in Italy it was only 13%. Not that it is a great consolation though.
And yes, I know they have problems with recruiting, that's what draft is for.
UK and Sweden are planning to draft both s8xes. A brilliant plan, which would make European TFR of 1.4 even lower. While Germany is only planning to draft men. I appreciate their common sense, but not sure we can trust them with nuclear weapons:)
Didn't people iron in medieval times'? I, too, like medieval clothing in everyday use. Their cleanliness standard, not so much.
ReplyDeleteBTW ironing pillowcases does pay off. They (and anything ironed) stay clean much longer, because the fibers are squeezed, so they do not suck so much dirt from you.
I like the smell of ironing. Also I like to use fabric handkerchiefs for blowing my nose (sensitive skin), so ironing them sanitizes them.
I thought in early Middle Ages they were quite clean. Well, at least in some places. I once read that the Vikings bathed once a week, changed their clothes often and combed their hair every day and English women couldn't withstand such sophistication which led to their husbands' complaining;)
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