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Pressing box pleast down entire length of shirt, or stop halfway or???

burgerkong

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Can't seem to find a definite answer, so I'm posting it here. As per title, iron a box pleat down the entire length of the back or no? Do you have a preferred length, or keep it similar to the length it originally came with?
 

DandySF

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I accept whatever it is the laundry does back there. I'm guessing the pleat goes somewhere to the middle of the back.
 

cptjeff

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I iron around box pleats. If you do iron 'em, do it evenly. Personally, I like my shirts to flow smoothly with minimal or no creasing anywhere on the shirt, so I don't like to iron in hard creases like you would by ironing a pleat.
 

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