Wrinkled clothes and priorities

            Now best I can figure we humans don't like wrinkled clothes. Why I still am not sure on.

            My opinion, really a guess,  is twofold.

            First is that wrinkled clothes may reflect unhealthy habits on the part of the person wearing the clothes, or the parents who have a lot to do with dressing the person.

            Second is that wrinkled clothes may affect even ones promotions in life and jobs. I once knew such a person. He was both handsome, with a wonderful memory for faces and names, and being well dressed even during hard times.

            As for me, I am more functional by my personality.  Even when we went to one version of camouflage uniforms, we were supposed to just fluff dry them, but many still preferred to have a hard starch appearance that also eradicated the wrinkles.

            Locally where I now live, even the local Mennonite gals taught me one solution to wrinkled clothing. Basically they would dry their cotton clothes to about 90% (by whatever means), and then air-dry the remaining 10%, usually by hanging them in the sun when they had it.

            Whatever, wrinkled clothes were and are a big deal.

            Last, and again locally, I spent years trying to find an old fashioned iron I could heat on a wood stove. The intent was to iron clothes, like get rid of the wrinkles.  Well, I had to settle for a cast iron bacon-press, which works OK for ironing, too.

            That's how important wrinkled clothes are to me, especially if hard times should come about.

            And if I am wrong, then I still can wear all the wrinkle-free clothes we can get these days, and use the bacon-press for other purposes, including as a door stop.