Commuter Cycling Question

crisco10

So...

I have been a commuter in and out of town for a couple of years now but in recent months i have developed a problem. its gotten to the stage where i need to be wearing a nice crisp shirt at work now.

Logistically, how do you guys manage to get into work with an ironed shirt?? sounds simple but no matter what i do, it gets creased in my bag. and wearing it would just be gross.

colblimp

Could you not drive/bus in on Monday with a weeks worth of shirts, and bring them all home on Friday?

Marks & Spensers non-iron shirts ftw.

Alternatively I'm sure there's some youtube videos on how to fold a shirt properly.

cantswim

Is there anywhere in town (around grafton/georges street) direction that does shirt cleaning/ironing service? saves having to bring them in on one day and doing the ironing in the first place!

AstraMonti

Yeap the key is the correct folding. Well still, it doesn't get off the bag like a freshly ironed shirt, but its in much better position. And sometimes it depends on the shirt itself, some are more resistant to crease. What i generally do is put the pants on the bottom of the bag, shirt above and tshirt and the rest of the stuff above it.. so the shirt is kinda in the middle. Its better than being on the curves of the bag. But still, you can't get a perfect shirt out of a bag.

cantswim wrote: »

Is there anywhere in town (around grafton/georges street) direction that does shirt cleaning/ironing service? saves having to bring them in on one day and doing the ironing in the first place!

There is a cleaning service on the first parralel of Grafton, i think its called Clarendon st.

Ghost Rider

Leave an iron in work?

fletch

Also if you wrap the shirt over a plastic bag/paper, it stops it creasing.

parko202

i find vacuum packing them works a charm, you can just get the shirt specific bags and then stick your vacuum cleaner on them and it should work.

short circuit

Don't pack it as it you are putting it in a suit case ... once you have the arms folded in ... roll the shirt ... this saves the creasing ..

Same for trousers .. after the first fold .. roll them ..

if you fold them like normal ... and the back pack is not packed tight ... lots of creases when you get to work.

Civilian_Target

M&S non-iron shirts.

Much like what short-circuit is suggesting, I fold in the arms, loosely fold it into 3 along the length of the shirt, and then roll it into the bag. It's not perfect, but it works fine.

fenris

leave a stock of shirts and a suit or two in the office, then just get the shirts washed and ironed in town - prices seem to range from abour 2.20 to 3.50 per shirt.

Alternatively just replenish from home, if you are now in suit land then it is usually because you are now more customer facing, which means that you may need the car a couple of times a week for customer visits, if so then use those days as restock days.

Traumadoc

Join a gym in town, leave 1/2 hour earlier shower and shave when you get to gym. You may be able to get a locker to leave shirts/suit there.

Raam

Fasten the top button around your neck and let the rest flap like a cape? Even if it doesn't work, at least you'll get some attention, right?

Seriously though, the rolling thing mentioned earlier works for me.

BostonB

I leave a bag of clothes in work when I drive in.

NeilMcEoigheann

place the folded shirt between two sheets of cardboard and elastic band or croc clip them together like a shirt sandwich. alternately place your weeks worth of ironed folded shirts in a shoe box and then put that in a plastic bag and onto your carrier this will prevent the monday car journey to replenish your work shirt supply.

crisco10

sweet lads thanks.

Don't have a locker so gonna try the aforementioned rolling/folding method....

monument

The first few pars in the Herald article explains how it could have happened.

And what was this car doing here?....

http://www.herald.ie/photo-galleries/bus-crashes-into-tree-in-dublin-1629787.html?ino=4