But Are They Wrinkles?
I decided to wear a new shirt today, of the "sport shirt" variety with a button-down collar, so it came packaged with plastic and pins and tissue paper in a pristine plastic bag. Needless to say, it is a modern, no-iron shirt. However, "no iron" is apparently passe, therefore it is a "wrinkle-free" shirt. Of course, this shift in nomenclature brings problems of its own. Witness this note packed with the shirt:
The temporary creases in this wrinkle-free shirt are a result of folding and packing.
There follows instructions for laundering the shirt which, upon removing it from the dryer, will return it to "wrinkle-free" condition. Thank goodness they're only "temporary creases"–I feared that my brand-new wrinkle-frree shirt had wrinkles!
It does leave me wondering, though, how to distinguish between those folding effects that produce "temporary creases" and those folding effects that produce the much feared and universaly dreaded "wrinkles".