DandNHill

You've never struck me as a collar stays kind of man. Whatever next? Cuff links?

Shard

Who's idea is this ??!

I've certainly ironed my fair share of shirts, but never really had a set order!

mikelincs

It's the way professional ironers and housekeepers are/were taught in the days when you had servants to do such mundane tasks

Jingsamichty

How can you iron a shirt randomly?!

Just noticed that I said "arms" when I obviously meant sleeves...

BristolUK

I asked my mother in law and she says she does right front, then left front, then back.

"So you do one side, then pull it all the way over to the other <demonstrating> and then back the way you came to do the back?" Yes, she said.

So this is a bit similar to Back, Front left, Front right in that you have a part of the shirt over the ironing board twice but only iron that bit once.

Why not just start either front left or right, slide it over a bit for the back and then further to do the rest; all in one direction.

Next week, how to iron socks; right or left foot first.

DandNHill

I do that Bristol. Collar, left front, back , right front then sleeves... I think if I was right handed I'd do the right front first

Shard

Just go with the flow...mix it up. Sometimes start with sleeves, sometimes with collar, sometimes with front or back. As long as the whole shirt is done, no problem! I think this may already have been communicated to you be someone!

BristolUK

Oink

caretaker

I suppose I learned in the reserves and probably had a little coaching from my mother, in more or less the original order, sometimes using the sprinkler head on a beer bottle of water to lightly dampen the cloth in lieu of steam. I also knew how to press the woolen battledress uniform using a damp tea-towel so the sharp creases in the trousers would hang straight with the aid of a ring of linked 9mm bullets in each cuff. Without doing the work it looked like a green bag.

Atlantic Xpat

Yoke, Collar, 1 side back, 1 side front, other side back other side front, sleeves.

A consequence of working at home a lot more these days is less need to wear shirts and do ironing. (I'm the only ironer in this house). Thats a good thing :-)

Jerseygirl

OK I will bite..

Collar
Yoke
Cuffs
Sleeves
Right front
Back
Left front

Oink

You need to take them out or they leave a mark in the collar when they get pressed. I have a little pot of them. You just have to trim them with nail clippers.

Never wear cuff links, I think they look tacky, the exception being when wearing black or white tie.

bats

Anarchist.

Teaandtoday5

I love cuff-links, esp with a double cuff. Took OH nearly two years to give up on ties. A sad day. Engineering is apparently more casual in Canada. These are the sacrifices we make to Mammon.

DandNHill

I think generally the workplace is more casual in Canada.