Saturday Style Note: Collars, Cuffs, and Other Stuff

Another week down and another edition of the Saturday Style Note is coming your way. I don't know where you will be reading this from but down here in Atlanta there is about three inches of snow on the ground. Very strange, I though I left the snow in Chicago. Anyways, one of my pet-peeves is when I put on a dress shirt, or any button down shirt for that matter, and the collar is sloppy. What I mean is that the collar is flattened down, and the edges curl up. Depending on the quality of the shirt you can even start to see some slight wrinkles around the collar. Below is a great way to avoid this problem, take care of your shirts and iron and starch them properly. Here's how:



1. As you might expect, get your iron and a flat space to work. (No brain-er there)
2. Start with the inside of the shirt facing up and flatten out the collar completely. Spray some starch all over it and iron out the collar completely.You can iron from the outside in or the other way around. Whatever you feel gives you the smoothest collar
3. Flip the shirt over, spray the other side of the collar with starch and repeat your ironing motion.
4. Once you have done that, fold the collar over, like how you would actually wear the shirt. Iron along the fold for a crisp collar.

If you like, you can repeat these same steps with your cuffs. Unbutton them, starch iron, flip over and repeat.

If ironing and cleaning your dress shirts and other items isn't your thing than you need to become very good friends with a very good cleaner. Actually, every man needs to have his go to cleaner that he can depend on and trust his nicest clothes with. If your in the Atlanta area than I would like to recommend one. Sig Samuels. This place has great customer service, the kind that has pretty much been lost in business's like this one. Ladies, if your picking up clothes for you or your boyfriend/husband/ect... you can count on them carrying your load out to your car for you. They also know all of their customers by name and do a great job handling your items. They have won "best of Atlanta" a few times and they are definitely worthy of chance to impress you. They are located of off Monroe by the Midtown Arts Cinema in Midtown. However you decide to do it, take care of your shirts. You dont want to be the guy with the collar laying flat, looking like your auditioning for a a remake of Saturday Night Fever.