quiddities and agonies of the ruling class - a rolling new york times thread

I wear my shirts one or two times before dry cleaning. Summer time I'll do it after every one because of sweat. part of it is just so they are nice and pressed/startched and I don't have to worry about steaming them to get rid of the wrinkles.

Honestly don't know how much it costs, I just pay it.

we basically let our dry-cleaning pile up and go every other month, paying about $80 for several shirts, dresses, a suit or two and possibly a jacket

The real agony of modern life is that we don't have a proper storage system for "not quite dirty" clothing items that you might throw in a load of laundry

i only wear t-shirts once, collared shirts multiple times as long at the collar is clean & there are no stains or smells. with a reasonable limit, of course. i usually put them back on the hanger.

also, febreeze

some ppl use chalk or a washable pen to mark their shirt tails after each wearing so they know when it needs to be sent out to the cleaner

which is useful i guess if you own a closetful of identical dress shirts, like some ppl do

I have had something dry cleaned exactly once in my life.

aside from sexist chatter on the street, I broke into a stiff trot recently and got "run Forrest run" from a passerby.

well, wrong thread. unless that's quiddity.

it's something

I think a lot of people do that! The real agony of modern life is that we don't have a proper storage system for "not quite dirty" clothing items that you might throw in a load of laundry, but if it's on top of the dirty laundry you would still wear it another time. Since I live alone I leave these draped over the back of a chair.

I bought a quilt rack for this purpose.

When you guys (Jeff) say you "dry clean" your dress shirts, do you actually have them *dry cleaned*? I just do shirt laundry.

If stuff's not actually "dirty" I hang it back in the closet. It's not going to spread cooties to the other clothes ffs.

I got that rack to give the clothes a place to air out and to let the wrinkles loosen. If I put worn-but-not-dirty clothes back in the general population, they're in close quarters w/ other clothes and don't get to do either.

And they might get shivved.

OZ: keeps your whites whiter

Je55e, no, they just wash/starch/press. I say dry cleaning because that is the name of the place I take it.

Wow, compared to you guys I'm pretty dirty. I usually wear pants 3 or 4 days before wash, sometimes the same with t-shirts. Button-up shirts I was after one wear.

I am not proper denim care snob dude but I got a new pair of jeans and wore them for about a month straight before a wash

I like it when snob strategies overlap w/ laziness

sometimes the same with t-shirts. Button-up shirts I was after one wear.

i wash tees & knit shirts more often because knits are more absorbent and retain more odor. also, woven fabric shirts are generally less durable and washing / drying causes more damage than actual wear

Jeans should be washed like three times a year

Ideally never

Huh. I don't think I know the difference between knits and woven fabrics.

I wear my clothes a lot before washing b/c I barely sweat at all and washing/drying wears them out.

Generally, knits are stretchy and wovens are not. Knits - t-shirts, boxer briefs, socks, sweaters. Wovens - button shirts, jeans, jackets, dress pants

There are exceptions to all of those things but that's generally way to look at it. You can also look closely at a t-shirt and see the knit pattern, which looks like this but not as exaggerated, obv, unless you are wearing chunky wool t-shirts:

http://www.spin-knit-dye.com/images/Knit-Stitch-plain.gif

Then woven fabrics look like this up close:

http://fabricgraphicsmag.com/repository/5/3092/large_0307_f3_2.jpg

I'll quiz you the next time I see you.

I remember once you told me I was too nipply in knit shirts :(

carl is correct! alternately, knits = one self-interlocking yarn, woven = two separate intersecting yarns.

I remember once you told me I was too nipply in knit shirts :(

― People aren't for comparing, they are for loving. (Je55e), Friday, April 20, 2012 4:54 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

*sigh*

I spill too much beer on my jeans to only wash them 3 times a year.

http://thoughtcatalog.com/2012/witnessing-a-change-in-williamsburg-brooklyn/

lol thoughtcatalog

comments are more fun than the article

You grew up here????!?! What a f**ken joke. This neighborhood was here before you came and brought your 100 coffee shops and bed bugs. You ruined what a neighborhood this used to be. You know nothing about being a new yorker. You name drop a few hipster shit holes and you think you own this place. This is my neighborhood, get it right.

That comment would be much better if it were from a hassidic jew

that's how i saw it in my head!

I kind of pictured it as an aging punk artist who moved here all the way back in 1995.

AARON 23 hours ago
lol, privileged white girls move to new york and meditate on how things have changed... since 2006. Lady, just because you slept with some nasty hipster types before Whole Foods moved in doesn't mean you "grew up there"

give me a break

you're as trendy and foreign as all the rest

(Aaron sounds like he could be a Jew)

this is less quid and more literal ag, but wtf with this story of rich people beating the piss out of each other at the new york athletic club

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/28/nyregion/for-new-york-athletic-club-brawl-jackets-seemed-to-be-required.html

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/24/brawl-sheds-an-unwelcome-light-on-a-tony-athletic-club/

the times can't get enough!!!

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/25/kids-draw-the-news-the-epic-brawl/

neither can the rest of the media:

"new york athletic club" brawl
About 56,500 results (0.23 seconds)

Word trickled out online, days later, via a single, anonymous, breathless telling of “the best fight I’ve ever seen,” a “nondiscriminatory ragematch” in a “lion’s pit” that the club prefers to call the Tap Room. That storied pub opened in 1933 with “an English tallyho, drawn by four horses and manned by liveried coachmen and footmen,” according to an article in The New York Times.

lol upper-class American Anglophilia.

http://wallstreetjackass.typepad.com/raptureready/2012/04/ny-athletic-club-fight-.html

how are guys my age members of an exclusive club
i wanna be a member of an exclusive club.

this blog post is the ur-text for all the rest i think

"this board opened in 2000 w/ an English tallyho"

they're rehearsing for the upcoming street brawls when OWS storms their "exclusive club," silly geese.

also, i bet that this club has at least one pic like this one on the walls:

http://www.barbizonart.com/boxing04lg.jpg

will bring my Xacto knife to tomorrow's march just in case

The proto-quiddities of Thought Catalog