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David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
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21 May 2003 - 1:37 pm
Why do dress shirts always come with pins holding all of the folds in place? If you buy any other clothes, they never use pins to hold all the folds in place. One of the shirts I bought yesterday used nine pins to hold keep all the folds in place. And its not like these folds are keeping the shirt from becoming wrinkled. Dress shirts are the only clothes that I can think of that look worse right after you buy them than at any time in the future. I always have my dress shirts dry cleaned because I don't like to iron them, but it irritates me a bit to have to take my newly purchased shirts to the dry cleaners before I wear them.
Anyway, I bought two suits yesterday. I took a slightly different approach than I did the last time I bought a suit and told the sales guy my upper limit before we started on the accessorizing. This worked out pretty well, as the total bill (including alteration and taxes) came out to $3 less then the limit I gave him. And I put it on the store's credit card, so I should be getting a $50 certificate in the mail in the future, which I'll probably use on another shirt and tie.
Posted by on 21 May 2003 at 1:37 PM
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I agree, they might as well put the shirt in a tight bag, or deliver it like the microsoft tee shirt in a tightly compressed cube. It's going to be washed before I wear it anyway.
Posted by rkc on 21 May 2003 - 3:12 PM
I agree about needing to wash it before wearing it, but if it weren't so horribly wrinkled, I might be tempted to iron it myself. But the last time I ironed a new dress shirt it took me over an hour to get all the wrinkles out. I'd rather pay a few bucks to have someone else do it if it's going to take that long. Anyway, it's all a big crock and now my room is littered with bits of cardboard, plastic and a bunch of pins all designed to keep this one tiny area on the front of the shirt looking nice; all at the expense of the rest of the shirt.
Posted by david on 22 May 2003 - 12:53 AM