What was the original purpose of ironing ?

Question

Do you iron underwear, towels,tea-towels, sheets, tablecloths, shirts, blouses, etc.?

Answer 1

As well as removing wrinkles, ironing makes the fiber colse so they won't get dirty as easily. But me. I iron as little as possible and luckily my bloke irons his own!

Answer 2

I iron my husbands work shirts.....sometimes. Other than that, if I have a shirt that looks like it needs it, I will iron it or somethings after I wash my jeans, the bottom of the legs with cuff up and I will iron them down. But that's about it on the ironing front. No need to iron the rest. Oh well I will iron a tablecloth for like thanksgiving or Christmas dinner if I have a whole bunch of family over. We have a wrinkle guard on our dryer, which really does work, so there isn't any point in ironing.

Answer 3

The original purpose of ironing was to put the shape back into collars, ruffles (the stiff starchy sort that choir boys wear), pleats into school skirts (I remember it well!) and, like Nic's mum, I, too, ironed my hair in the 60's cos we didn't have hair straighteners in those days! (Step 1. set up ironing board. Step 2. Plug iron in - they weren't steam irons, either! Step 3, bend down and place hair along ironing board. Step 4, cover hair with brown paper, a tea towel, a towel or anything else that you think is suitable to stop the iron from scorching the hair, and, finally, Step 5, iron hair until perfectly straight - ignore comments from parents who grew up in the 1920's and wanted curly hair, effect obtained by going to bed with hair twisted around with pieces of rag!).

Answer 4

I hate ironing and if nobody has invented it, I wouldn't have to do it. I try and buy clothes that don't crease and if they do I won't wear them very often. Sometimes I do it because I have to but only if I am desperate. I think I am like this because my mum used to iron everything she could get her hands on. Flannels, j-cloths, underwear and even her hair in the 60's!

Answer 5

I don't bother with all those shenanigans, my clothes 'self-iron' while I wear them. Ironing was just invented so people could sell irons and ironing boards. Don't play their game!

Answer 6

Originally, ironing was used as a means of getting wrinkles out of clothes.
no, no, no, optional, yes, yes, yes

Answer 7

There was a time when all clothes had to have ironed creases in them.

Answer 8

Nobody irons everything unless they have slaves to it for them.

Answer 9

i have an ingenious device which does all my ironing without me having to do anything. it is called a mother

Answer 10

You ask a very good question. If we all wore wrinkled clothes it wouldn't matter.