What makes shirts non iron

That is similar to the pesticides on your food, that does not mean that they are not there or creating negative effects to your health. Wearing non-iron shirts gives you daily contact to these chemicals through your skin. They are known to irritate the skin causing rashes and pose long term health risks. We will never endanger your health by adding a formaldehyde finish to our shirts.

Transparency The health and well being of our customers is paramount. The marketplace success of non-iron shirts has prompted other brands — even higher quality brands such as Eton, Nordstrom and Thomas Pink — to take the plunge. Even Zegna is experimenting with a new wrinkle resistant cotton. On the positive side, their wrinkle resistant cotton involves a new variety of cotton, not the application of a potentially health-impacting chemical treatment.

Why do clients who have some non-iron shirts in there wardrobe still require those shirts to be professionally cleaned and pressed? When questioned further, most admit that their own home laundry results are no match for our professional results. And avoid having to spend 5 minutes ironing your shirt the night before.

Formaldehyde has numerous industrial applications. Most European and Asian countries have regulations restricting the presence of formaldehyde in textile products. In , the U. Government Accountability Office studied chemically-treated textiles. The problem with formaldehyde is that it has been demonstrated to cause watery eyes, burning eyes and throats, coughing, headaches, fatigue, skin irritation, dermatitis, nausea, asthma and other respiratory problems.

In May , Congress passed a bill that set new safety standards for dangerous chemicals, including formaldehyde, that have gone unregulated for decades. So you go ahead and sweat into a stiff, chemically enhanced shirt for the rest of the summer if you want to.

We'll be over here wearing literally anything else. This ensures that when the shirt is hung up to dry after washing, it can stay crease-free. Below is a Quick Iron , rather than non-iron shirt — but can you tell the difference? Nickson does not offer what our competitors would call non-iron but what we do offer is more descriptive and honest — Quick Iron Shirts.

The key qualities and differences of the Quick Iron Shirts are below:. We believe you should always iron your shirt and it is good practice to do so.