Comments on: An Unnatural Act

By: Sarah Irving

Sarah Irving — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 07:22:32 +0000

Yes, the ironing board should be wider – bit it could also do with having as standard those little mini-ironing-boards for doing sleeve and narrow trouser legs on. Having said that, I iron about once a year and generally have a policy of never buying clothes which might need ironing.
My mum, though, made ironing into a great bit of women’s lib during the late 80s. Having missed out on most of said movement by marrying me Dad, as far as I can remember she spent most of the early years of their divorce doing massive piles of ironing in her room with the door closed and her newly-acquired Bruce Springsteen albums on ear-splittingly loud. After a year or two she emerged, did an OU women’s studies course and then a women’s history MA at Royal Holloway, and gave up on men. I don’t think ironing and Springsteen are well known for that effect…

By: admin

admin — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:46:50 +0000

I love the smell of the scented steam too.

By: Sue-Ann

Sue-Ann — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:44:26 +0000

I also don’t iron. Even my husband doesn’t bother with ironing his work shirts anymore. I don’t mind ironing – if I have time, if the ironing board isn’t rickety, if the cord doesn’t get tangled around itself. I love the smell of the clean clothes under the steam. As a teenager, I did a lot of the ironing in our house – lived being away in the laundry with the radio on and the rhythm of the ironing.