How to Fold a Shirt
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Louis was doing this at the Omaha gathering last summer. I tried it a few times, couldn't master the trick. Thanks for posting a link to the video, I've saved the clip to study closer and will try the technique again.
I haven't been able to master it, either, Glenn. In the end I always do it the way I've always done it. It's not like I have so many to fold at one time that I need a speed method, LOL.
The downside of this method is that one sleeve is at the bottom side so you need to put your hand under it when you put a t-shirt away. It's a very fast way of folding t-shirts though, I still use this method to fold mine.
BTW, I think she explains it very clearly. At least I think she does. LOL
BTW, I think she explains it very clearly. At least I think she does. LOL
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Tried this a few times and just couldn't get the hang of it, so in the end I brought a T-shirt to the computer and followed the clip step by step LOL. Got there in the end, and the more you do it the easier it gets - keep trying, and before long you can do the moves without thinking.
Thanks for sharing, I have an entire basket full of T-shirts waiting for me to practise this technique on!
Thanks for sharing, I have an entire basket full of T-shirts waiting for me to practise this technique on!
Never understood the mystery behind folding shirts. Then again have been folding laundry for more years than I care to remember.
Large professional laundries have special machines to fold laundry, even shirts, so trying to imitate their results will take lots of practice, and even then. Also commercial laundry press shirts flat, usually with lots of starch which makes folding easier as well.
Bottom line is no matter how well shirts are folded, they are going to wrinkle around sleeves, and perhaps lower torso. Cheap laundries know this and will often do a sub-par job ironing on shirts that are ordered to be boxed and folded. This way they can blame the wrinkles on shirts being folded.
Commercial laundry standards for boxed shirts is to have at least the 8x14 or so top/chest parts looking perfect, as this is the area which shows when a man wears a jacket. Wrinkled sleeves are covered by said jacket, and the lower bits are tucked into a man's trousers.
Do have one of those "flip and fold" thingies, purchased cheaply and used once. It was more effort than it was worth so sits unused and stashed away.
L.
Large professional laundries have special machines to fold laundry, even shirts, so trying to imitate their results will take lots of practice, and even then. Also commercial laundry press shirts flat, usually with lots of starch which makes folding easier as well.
Bottom line is no matter how well shirts are folded, they are going to wrinkle around sleeves, and perhaps lower torso. Cheap laundries know this and will often do a sub-par job ironing on shirts that are ordered to be boxed and folded. This way they can blame the wrinkles on shirts being folded.
Commercial laundry standards for boxed shirts is to have at least the 8x14 or so top/chest parts looking perfect, as this is the area which shows when a man wears a jacket. Wrinkled sleeves are covered by said jacket, and the lower bits are tucked into a man's trousers.
Do have one of those "flip and fold" thingies, purchased cheaply and used once. It was more effort than it was worth so sits unused and stashed away.
L.
Louis taught me this in person but, alas, the memory is a sieve.
This must be the method used in 3rd world shirt factories. I'm gonna have to try this except the only shirts I fold are undershirts and they don't have to look fancy.
I remember Louis' demonstration last year the convention - we should have organized a better "workshop" with guided practice! I thought it was a neat way to fold shirts quickly but unless you're dillgent about getting them out of the dryer quickly, smoothing them out would be a bit of a time-drain too.
If you fold the finished product in half at the middle, the loose sleeve would be better contained but adds another crease line.
If you fold the finished product in half at the middle, the loose sleeve would be better contained but adds another crease line.
