{"id":1607,"date":"2015-06-19T20:04:26","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T20:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propercloth.com\/reference\/?p=1607"},"modified":"2025-01-24T14:52:05","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T19:52:05","slug":"wrinkle-resistant-vs-non-iron-dress-shirts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propercloth.com\/reference\/wrinkle-resistant-vs-non-iron-dress-shirts\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrinkle-Resistant vs Non-Iron Dress Shirts"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Morris<\/p>\n

What’s the difference in wrinkle resistance\u00a0between non-iron and wrinkle-resistant dress shirts?<\/h2>\n
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Non-Iron dress shirts<\/a> will generally have superior wrinkle-resisting performance compared to wrinkle-resistant shirts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Wrinkle-resistant dress shirts definitely need to be ironed or pressed after they are washed for a clean, professional appearance. The treatment is such that your shirts stay looking sharper throughout the day than they otherwise would, were they not treated.<\/p>\n

Non-Iron shirts, on the other hand, require little-to-no ironing following a wash at home<\/a> to achieve a flawless appearance. If you have your non-iron shirts washed and pressed at the cleaners, even better. With normal wear over the course of the workday you\u2019ll find the shirt to be relatively unchanged, aside from points of articulation like the inside of the elbows.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s the difference in feel between non-iron and wrinkle-resistant shirts?<\/h2>\n

Wrinkle-resistant treated fabrics tend to look and feel similar to untreated fabrics. The <\/span>treatment is applied to the fabric during the finishing process<\/span>, rather than the fully finished shirt, allowing for enhanced breathability and softness. Another factor in the breathability and softness is the fact that all Proper Cloth wrinkle-resistant fabrics are 100% cotton.<\/span><\/p>\n

With non-iron shirts, the bonded cotton fibers are a double-edged sword. They allow for an unmatchable wrinkle-free finish, but also cause the fabric to be less breathable and a little less smooth to the touch. <\/span>It’s important to us that we use high-quality fabrics for our non-iron shirts, such as our <\/span>100% cotton <\/span>Non-Iron 100s White Supima Twill<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>so that <\/span>Proper Cloth non-iron shirts will wear much more <\/span>comfortably<\/span> than non-iron shirts from mass market retailers.<\/span><\/p>\n

How is the\u00a0manufacturing process different for wrinkle-resistant fabrics vs. non-iron shirts?<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n

At Proper Cloth, we choose to treat our \u201cWrinkle-Resistant\u201d fabrics with a water-based chemical process that occurs at the mill level, rather than once the shirt is made. The fabric is treated during the production process and later arrives at our manufacturing facility, ready to be cut to your custom size and design specifications in the wrinkle-resistant material.<\/p>\n

Non-Iron shirts are different in that your shirt is cut and sewn to your size and design specifications and then placed in a non-iron treatment vat. We use special fabrics that are prepared by our fabric mills to accept this non-iron treatment. The non-iron treatment saturates the entire shirt, bonding the cotton fibers to each other at a molecular level and making the fabric much more difficult to crease.<\/p>\n

Other factors that determine wrinkle-resistance<\/h2>\n

One shouldn\u2019t forget that the underlying <\/span>fabric weave, weight, and cotton quality<\/a><\/span> of a fabric play a very important role in its overall wrinkle resistance.<\/span><\/p>\n

Generally, thinner fabrics made with single ply construction will wrinkle more easily than 2-ply fabrics with a bit more body. Broadcloth<\/span> (<\/span>also known as poplin) wrinkles most easily of the fabric weaves, so if you really care about having a shirt that\u2019s easy to maintain we suggest going for a twill, pinpoint, or royal oxford.<\/span><\/p>\n

High thread count fabrics<\/span> (<\/span>120s-170s) tend to be slightly more fragile and prone to wrinkling than many fabrics, so we find the best natural wrinkle resistance will come with fabrics made in 80\u2019s or 100\u2019s 2-ply construction.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Proper Cloth\u2019s Top Non-Iron Styles<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n

The Non-Iron Supima Shirt<\/a><\/p>\n

The Non-Iron Button Down<\/a><\/p>\n

The Non-Iron Stretch Shirt<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Thomas Mason Non-Iron Shirt<\/a><\/p>\n

Proper Cloth\u2019s Top Wrinkle-Resistant Styles<\/span><\/h2>\n

The Mayfair Wrinkle-Resistant Shirt<\/a><\/p>\n

The Thomas Mason Wrinkle-Resistant Shirt<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

History of non-iron and wrinkle-resistant shirts<\/h2>\n

Non-Iron shirts were first introduced in the early 1990s and were slowly adopted by shirtmakers at first. It wasn\u2019t until the late ’90s that these shirts started being widely offered, though. Non-Iron shirts really took off in the 2000s, accounting for almost 25% of dress shirts sold in the US in 2008.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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