When taking shirts to the dry cleaners - should you get them starched or not?

[Deaf Smith]

"I am a man BTW.................................................I'm a woman BTW"

Please pick one that you were born with.

[TheNext]

Keep up these posts John Adams and I may learn something.

[Exit148]

Yes!! I’m a monthly, also, and you are so right— just a little from everyone would make such a difference!

[SamAdams76]

There is a big thunderstorm approaching Newtown, CT

I’m going outside to watch it. In my bare feet.

[Yaelle]

No. Everything on your clothes goes into your skin and bloodstream. That stuff isn’t just “starch.” It’s neurotoxic (but I forget what it is). It’s not good for you at all.

[the OlLine Rebel]

ROFL he wa just poorly quoting me!

[thecodont]

More importantly, most commercial cleaners use ironing machines. Cleaners take a damp shirt and “smash” it between two hot metal plates. The heat will cause the built up fibers to break after 6 to 10 washings.

Not to mention it also pulverizes those delicate mother-of-pearl (not plastic) buttons.

[sergeantdave]

“Do I want then starched or not?”

Simple, Sam: Do you want your shirts to hang from hangers or stand straight up by themselves on the closet floor.

[Caipirabob]

Yes, but take it off first.

I do not get my shirts starched unless there is a compelling reason to do so.

[sgt_lau]

My BDU’s, when I was a drill instructor, were starched so stiff that I needed a broom handle to push down the sleeves to get my arms in. So, I enjoy a crisp, starched look still to this day.

[SuperLuminal]

Definitely, if you live in a humid environment/location...

[kaehurowing]

I iron my own shirts; cannot afford the outrageous prices charged by dry cleaners. $7 per shirt I think is the going rate now.

[dinodino]

No. Starch harms the fibers of the fabric in the long run, and prevents the shirt from hanging on your frame properly, IMHO.

[Albion Wilde]

If your shirts are all-cotton, get them starched.

If your shirts are a cotton/polyester blend, ask for light starch.

If your shirts are 100% polyester, give them to Salvation Army and buy some all-cotton shirts.

[orlop9]

how do you say “extra starch” in Urdu?

[Brandonmark]

I have been dry cleaning my shirts since I was in high school (my Dad ran the cleaners) and for years I was “heavy starch” then changed to “light starch” but for the last decade I have finally decided that “NO starch” is best for me!

[FoundinTexas]

Starched Jeans or shirts will bead water and repel dirt. It also protects my welder husband from burns.

[Sans-Culotte]

I always get light starch.

[sauropod]

Yes. Get them Simonized.

[thinden]

Stupidest thing I’ve ever seen posted on FR.

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I agree. I would never post on a thread this stupid