August 26, 2004

• I hope this doesn't catch on or my stock in the FlipFold company will become worthless!!!
• I just tried it, and it actually works! Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go re-fold all the t-shirts in the store.
• That is some fucking crazy fold-fu! Its like origami, the first step looks easy, but everyone immediately gets lost come step two.
• I almost can't wait to get home to try this.
• I kid you not -- just about three hours ago I read instructions for this exact thing in a magazine in a doctor's waiting room. I came home and tried it, but couldn't remember exactly how it went. And now there's a helpful tutorial video right here on MonkeyFilter. Yay! Somebody out there must really want me to fold my shirts properly....
• I can't get it to work. Is this one of those photoshopped ghost stories again?
• Wow, that is pretty neato. However, I'm thinking that a few steps were eliminated in that video. I saw a couple of instances where it, well, jumped, like recordings do when stopped and then started again. In other news, my ability to correctly speak the English language is slowly but surely degrading.
• I tell you I tried it and it worked. Stand to one side of the shirt. Imagine a line that runs from the middle of the shoulder furthest away from you to the bottom hem. Then imagine another line exactly halfway inbetween the top of the collar and the bottom hem. Pinch the shirt at the point where those lines intersect. Then follow the first line up to the shoulder seam and grab the shirt there with your other hand. From the shoulder seam, fold the shirt in half so that the shoulder where you grabbed it meets the bottom hem and grab that hem too (so that you're holding the shoulder seam and the bottom hem together.) The first hand should be hidden by the shirt at this point. Still firmly holding the bottom hem and shoulder together, pull the hidden hand out from underneath towards you. Then fold the loose arm underneath. Voila!
• When you pull the hidden hand out you should still be pinching the point where the lines intersect. Forgot that part, sorry.
• Cali you rule. Ignorant Slut, you also rule. It took both video and paragraph, but I'm sitting in front of a folded shirt without recourse to Gap employee or professional launderer.
• Its magic magic I tell you, its magic
• Being that I'l still at work, I don't really have access to a spare tee shirt ... unless ... *takes off dress shirt, whips off undershirt* Holycrap, it works! dng is right, it IS magic. Now to explain why I'm laughing and shirtless to my co-workers. :: On a more serious note, to those having trouble with the technique, the key is that you are not folding the shirt. You are flipping it inside out, which also happens to fold the shirt. Shirt is face up, top to your left, bottom to your right. Note that the shirt is face up at the start. The initial fold over establishes 2 folding creases. The obvious is the horizontal crease along the middle of the shirt. The second is the important one. Don't grab the Lftymost edge of the shirt (Lfty being left as if you were wearing the shirt). With left hand, grab a point on the shoulder an inch inwards from the Lfty edge. When you make that first fold, left hand pinches the shoulder to the bottom of the shirt together, and right hand pinches the inside spot (again, an inch down from the Lfty edge). Remember, this is NOT a fold. No folding here will end up in the final prouct. This is just establishing where the folding will take place. The front is on the INSIDE, which, as you can see from the final result, is not where it will end up. When you lift the shirt, however, it flips the inside (the front) outside, and also happens to make the second fold at the same time. Can't get it to work? No flipping? Don't be gentle. Give it a violent shake. Pretend it's a kite flapping in the wind. It's just a matter of how you lay the shirt down to form the final 3rd folding crease. Establishing which hand went where was the hardest part for me. I had a number of failed twister-ish moments there. Oh, and while it doesn't work as well for long sleeve shirts, it is 60% faster then my current method.
• Oops. I had the shirt laid out backwards from the video. Their top of shirt was on the right. Hmm, so right=left, Lfty=Rghty, top and bottom are still the same tho. Oh well, it works either way.
• And here's how to fold soup. (last item)
• This technique seems to be making the rounds pretty slowly. There's even another try at a flip fold joke.
• This technique seems to be making the rounds pretty slowly. There's even another try at a flip fold joke. No kidding! And you people call yourselves internet users. Your just a bunch of posers!
• "The primary concern is "how can you carry soup on your body without appearing ridiculous?" When you ask yourself this question, you are ready for soup folding." ah, brilliant. Can't wait to try this tomorrow.
• That's awesome!
• *hopelessly tangled in t-shirt, typing with toes* save me
• So confused... everything going dark...
• Does anyone have any tips on how to keep suits and shirts from wrinkling in a suit bag? Because it is a BITCH to iron things with a hangover on three hours sleep before you have to be in a meeting at 9 and look like you do the whole liquid dinner->Brasky? Are you talking about BILL Brasky?->sure, we can go to a strip club! every night of the week.
• and I have the iron scars to prove it. Owtch! Monkey safety tip: Always raise ironing board *higher* than, say, genitals-level.
• Good question. Best I've managed is to get a very nice hanging bag and spend two hours packing it carefully for the trip, making sure everything is smoothed out and folded neatly. Then unpack immediately when I get to the hotel.
• Fes, you might want to give the Urban Uniform a try.