mainer

With school I'm required to wear a uniform daily with military creases in the shirt and pants. I'm getting a bit tired of re ironing my creases every week. As it is I have 3 shirts and 3 pairs of pants, but only wear one set a week because of having to re iron them weekly.

I know I can take them to a cleaner and have them press the creases in for me, but I'm on a college budget and don't want to spend the extra money each week.

I've looked into sew in creases, but after talking to a squad leader I was told we are not aloud to have them. But there is a Cadet across the passageway who's pants came with what looks like glue on the inside to keep the crease. He has never had to iron the crease and they look great.

So my question is where can I get this sort of glue in crease done? I did some googling and could only find place that sold pants and shirts with this already done, they call it perma creasing.

Does anyone know a place I can send my pants and shirts out to get perma creased?

Thanks For the Help Cooper

Krob

Hmm, im sure some wise old NCO will chime in here but i'd think about startching them. And maybe having them all dry cleaned and pressed real hard which might cause more permenet creases.

Which school are you at?

ROb

Lary Ellis (Top)

I found that a good wife took care of the ironing issues God Bless Military Wives and all they do!

Wish I could be more help but I have no experience with the perma crease stuff...

mcoleman

I use to have all of my uniforms martinized. Not sure if that was much different than starching but they stayed stiff and creased.

irocpractice

Long ago and far away when I was in retail drycleaning...there was a product called permacrease.Applied by hand and then set by the heat of a drycleaning press head.OR,there was a "starch" designed to be used for 65/35 poly cotton shirts added to the last rinse of a laundry cycle prior to extract(spin dry),also set by heat.Talk to your local cleaners(a good one) and see who uses the starch product.If they give you any static tell them you will pay the additional charges but you want the creases pressed in.

PistolWhipt

Have them professionally pressed one time with heavy starch so you have something to guide you with.... then get your butt outta that rack 30 minutes earlier each day and iron the "summer creases" out !! ( "sum" creases go this way and "sum" go that way ).

If you hand smooth your uniforms and immediately put them on hangers it will make your chore a lot easier ... but as a cadet, you still need to be the one doing it and not looking for a shortcut. It's a leadership thing ....

Just my .02 worth ... your mileage may vary.

Cheers,
PISTOL

carpenterje

Man, I'm starting to get old!!! But back in the day with the old style cammies, (before the digital cammies), I would press my cammies and then on the inside where the crease is, I would apply a thin bead down the crease of ELMERS GLUE, remember on the inside, then I'd run the iron over them again. Kept a pretty good crease for a good couple of days. When you washed them, the elmers glue would wash right out. This was done on darker colored fabric of course, I don't know what it would look like on a lighter color fabric. Just an old trick, I learned from my Gunny about 10 years ago.

mainer

I'm at Mass Maritime Academy.

I'll have to look into the permacrease, I did some reading about it on the internet, but I couldn't find any good info. I will have to talk to a cleaner. My creases will hold for a week, but when i try and put them back in I miss and end up with a nice rail road track down the front of my pants, which doesn't really fly at inspections.

I've seen some info on buying a starch product and starching the crease myself, but IDK if I want to do that. Maybe my best bet is to pay a cleaner to do it one time and go from there.

thanks for the help Cooper

Totallyrad

The first link is the search on Google. The others are taken from the search. It looks like a form of silicone is what they're using now or a resin of sorts. Make sure you look at the ask Andy link and click the link in the first post. It may be what you're really looking for.

http://www.google.com/search?q=perma...e7&rlz=1I7RNWK

http://www.marlowwhite.com/army/unif...t-feature.html

http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf441710.tip.html

http://trj.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/27/3/252

http://www.askandyaboutclothes.com/f...ad.php?t=87278
^click the link in the first post

http://ask.metafilter.com/6182/How-d...stay-permanent

http://www.styleforum.net/showthread.php?t=8967

madhat

Ironing uniforms daily is not a time thing, it's a pride thing. I do it so no one can say they look better than me.

Where are your motives? If you want to look the best, it takes time. The more you do it, the better you get.

diesel_burner

Get them pressed with heavy starch and you'll be good. I could put my dress pants on now and look good, haven't worn them in 6 months and they went through a move. Like MadHat said it's about pride.

MoNStrRIg

Couldnt have said it better.....

STate

Im not sure about slacks and dress shirts, but back in the day I heard of some fellow devildogs laying a thick piece of fishing line on the INSIDE of the crease and running a hot iron over it. Like I said this was on the "old" Marine Corps camflage utilities so be careful if youre doing it on dress shirts and slacks.

glocklove

What I do is wash the uniform and right out of the washer hang the shirt and paint up, INSIDE out and spray stright stay-flo on the crease areas only. Let them dry and then iron them. When you iron use a hard surfuce like a counter top with a towel underneth, then being careful you use some muscle and iron your creases in. I could keep creases in my polester HONOR GUARD paints for months useing this method. But I did it my self and tought the other guys how to do it. IT IS the pride you have when the rest of the guys come to you wanting to know how you do it.

PistolWhipt

Also .... you should keep a seperate uniform put aside for inspections ONLY !!

You can groom the heck out of this set ... tailored fit, no Irish Pennants, solid buttons, ribbons, name tag and collar devices perfectly aligned according to regulation, shoes polished to a super high gloss, brand new t-shirt ... etc.

cheers,
PISTOL