
So you think you know how to iron a shirt? Take it from the YouTube experts, there’s actually a lot of technique involved! And with just a few minutes, you can be ironing like the pros.
Michael Chartres is a one-man video advice columnist. Specifically, one drunk man. He describes himself thusly on his YouTube page:
About Me: Nearly 68 years old, retired, living in Staffordshire. Love spending time on my boat, NORSELA. Enjoy building model boats, railways and planes.
Chartres: “It is strictly men only, and ladies should cancel this video immediately and move on to another one.”
If you like that, you might enjoy his video on how to use a saw (for ladies).
In just two and a half minutes, Esquire teaches men how to iron a shirt — in a manly manner. The announcer commands: “Be careful to sharpen any pleats! Repeat with the other sleeve.”
“Man has always struggled against the odds to understand the complexities involved in ironing a shirt. He has also relied on the hands of his mother, but cursed age has removed him from the family home, and forced him to face the battle on his own.”
John Francomb: “Now, I’m passionate about shirts, and passionate about how they look, so ironing is really important to me.” Why are so many of these ironing videos English? I’ll tell you: because the rest of us are slobs who don’t how to iron our shirts. That’s why we have YouTube.
Francomb also has a useful video on how to pack for a short business trip — he has a “foolproof way of packing” that has been refined over a lifetime. Part of it involves keeping the plastic shirt bags that your shirts originally came in — oops.
Good God, another English person telling us how to iron! At least this time the instructor is a lady.
I must have been one of the lucky ones who just picked up the iron and got it right… :P
posted by Bakedpotatoes on 10-7-2010 at 1:33 am
Duh! I have been forgetting the gin & tonics!!!
posted by Tom Weidermeijer on 10-7-2010 at 11:45 am
@Tom – proper technique is everything. My, this Gordon’s is good stuff, yes?
posted by Chris Higgins on 10-7-2010 at 12:08 pm