Fashion Board 6-9-04 to 7-13-04

[taxwonk]

The Wonk Princess has recently acquired a couple of shirts that require laundering and pressing. I took her shirts to the laundry with mine and was shocked to find out that they charge about 2.5 times as much to do women's shirts as men's.

Mrs. Wonk has been in a wash and wear or dry clean kind of wardrobe place, so I haven't encountered this before. I am curious, is this a general phenomenon? Is it yet another way in which the business world favors (unfairly) the penile-packing? Or am I being...

(Get ready for it)


...taken to the cleaners?

[dtb]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Atticus would want you to spell soporific correctly.

Oooooh. Burn.

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by taxwonk
The Wonk Princess has recently acquired a couple of shirts that require laundering and pressing. I took her shirts to the laundry with mine and was shocked to find out that they charge about 2.5 times as much to do women's shirts as men's.

Mrs. Wonk has been in a wash and wear or dry clean kind of wardrobe place, so I haven't encountered this before. I am curious, is this a general phenomenon? Is it yet another way in which the business world favors (unfairly) the penile-packing? Or am I being...

(Get ready for it)


...taken to the cleaners?

I was once told that because women's shirts button opposite from men's they require special handling on the pressing machines, hence the extra charge. This could be a big fat lie.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by ironweed
You were expecting quality dialogue from this movie?

Speaking of movies, we went to see A Mi Madre Le Gusta Las Mujeres over the weekend. It was amusing in a Pedro Almodovar kind of way without being directed by Almodovar and has a rock club scene that was worth the price of admission alone.

But there is one sequence, in which the Spanish sisters travel to Prague to convince their mother's Czech girlfriend to come back to Madrid with them, that speaks volumes about modern Europe. The sisters show up at the door of the apartment in Prague and ask for the girlfriend IN ENGLISH, which, of course, her Czech family understands immediately. The French must be so pissed that the lingua franca of Europe is American.

Ohhh, that reminds me... check out City of God. Its a hell of a flick. I couldn't take my eyes off the screen. Really moves along. Not a wasted sequence anywhere.

And look for the actors who play L'il Ze to wind up playing thugs in Hollywood soon. Both the little kid who plays him as a child and the freak who plays him as an adult are scary, crazy motherfuckers on screen. The adult version is like a low rent, coked-senseless version of Sam Jackson's Pulp Fiction hit man character.

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by taxwonk
The Wonk Princess has recently acquired a couple of shirts that require laundering and pressing. I took her shirts to the laundry with mine and was shocked to find out that they charge about 2.5 times as much to do women's shirts as men's.

Mrs. Wonk has been in a wash and wear or dry clean kind of wardrobe place, so I haven't encountered this before. I am curious, is this a general phenomenon? Is it yet another way in which the business world favors (unfairly) the penile-packing? Or am I being...

(Get ready for it)


...taken to the cleaners?

Generally, women's shirts to launder and starch/press are twice as much. That's in the burbs as well as the city. I agree with the other poster about the buttoning thing and the extra money I've been told that also. If you notice when they run those shirt starch launder specials it excludes women's shirts. I went through a Brooks Brothers phase and the cleaning fees were outrageous.

This twice as much fee applies to women's vs. men's clothes in general. Men's clothes are better constructed with better materials and last twice as long and women's clothes are basically disposable and twice as much in cost. Sucks to be us.

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
I was once told that because women's shirts button opposite from men's they require special handling on the pressing machines, hence the extra charge. This could be a big fat lie.

That is a big fat lie. My uncle-in-law owns a dry cleaning business. That used to be cool to get all our cleaning done for free. Sigh, and now he's in another city.

Women's shirts require them to break out the iron and the ironing board. Way more time consuming. Men's shirts they just throw on the form and steam press. Men's shirts $.99, women's dress shirts, $3.50-$4.50.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by patentparanyc


This twice as much fee applies to women's vs. men's clothes in general. Men's clothes are better constructed with better materials and last twice as long and women's clothes are basically disposable and twice as much in cost. Sucks to be us.

Aren't women's suits cheaper (price-wise) generally?

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
That is a big fat lie. My uncle-in-law owns a dry cleaning business. That used to be cool to get all our cleaning done for free. Sigh, and now he's in another city.

Women's shirts require them to break out the iron and the ironing board. Way more time consuming. Men's shirts they just throw on the form and steam press. Men's shirts $.99, women's dress shirts, $3.50-$4.50.

I see a niche market: women's shirts w/the buttons on the right. Why hasn't someone tried this?

[patentparanyc]

My glasses broke. So I need to unexpectedly replace them. Looking to go on the cheap since I went the contact lens route...

For frames on the cheap, I like plastic Oliver Peoples type frames in a tortoise shell color. I priced his at 250 or so. Is it possible to go cheaper than that? And where can you get high index lenses cheaper....any suggestions?

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by taxwonk
The Wonk Princess has recently acquired a couple of shirts that require laundering and pressing. I took her shirts to the laundry with mine and was shocked to find out that they charge about 2.5 times as much to do women's shirts as men's.

I had occasion to ask this question once, and their explanation was that they dry clean or hand wash (or something) women's shirts, whereas they launder/press men's shirts, and the latter is cheaper. Translation: just say they're men's shirts (if they are cotton) to get the men's price.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
I see a niche market: women's shirts w/the buttons on the right. Why hasn't someone tried this?

It would outrage the market segment that has handmaidens to dress them. It would never work.

[Anne Elk]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
I see a niche market: women's shirts w/the buttons on the right. Why hasn't someone tried this?

Better question, why are the buttons/zippers on different sides in the first place?

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
It would outrage the market segment that has handmaidens to dress them. It would never work.

Not to worry. Those among us who are right-handed and dress ourselves will still have other uses for our handmaidens.

[Anne Elk]

Ben Affleck has won a seat at the next World Poker Tour Championship. CNN link here.

[leagleaze]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
What OTC stuff do you people take for allergies? Fuck me.

I won't fuck you, but I will suggest you try good, old fashioned, benadryl. Only take it at night though, it will make you sleep.


The s/o takes flonase and swears by it. It's not cheap though and definitely not OTC.

I think things vary from person to person though, cause nothing, not even the flonase, really helped with the cats.