unfuck your cargo pocket flaps
Do your cargo pocket flaps do the thing? The thing where the edges get all curly and messed up after you wash them? And it somehow gets worse every time? Do you walk around looking like someone's dad chaperoning a Trunk or Treat in the First Baptist Church parking lot? Is ironing the pockets out impossible for some reason? Is it just a really difficult place to iron? Is the cargo pocket itself billowed or pleated or (God forbid) bedazzled, making it even more difficult to fix? Does ironing just suck? Do you not have an ironing board because you're under the age of 40 and have never worked a white-collar job in your life? Do you not even have an iron someone gave you as a hint? Have you been doing the thing (which I have not been doing) where you boil water in a saucepan and then use that on your job interview blouse instead because the iron is still in its box and you can't handle changes to your routines?
The solution is a flat-iron. If you don't have a flat-iron, then I don't know how to help you. If you are a woman who doesn't have a flat-iron, I want you to know that you're probably really cool and I want to hang out with you?
WHAT YOU NEED
- a flat iron
- some water
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HOW-TO
- Make sure the thing you want to iron out is safe to iron. Fleece or cheap polyester will probably melt.
- Don't wear your clothes while you do this. (I've done it, but, like??????)
- Set the flat-iron to whatever you use for your hair. It's probably fine? (You might need to fine-tune this as you go, because I don't know what hair or flat-iron you have).
- I would spritz or flick some water on the spot you want to iron. That's what I usually do. I've done it dry, but the results were less good and I doubt it's good for the fabric.
- Think about how you iron your clothes and how you iron your hair, and then kind of combine the two?
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TIPS AND TRICKS
- Antecedent-based intervention: Buy a poly-cotton blend next time. A lot of the performance polyesters you see from fancy outdoor brands curl up pretty bad, and the 100% cotton cargos your dad gets from the big box stores are notorious for it. 50/50 NyCo and 65/35 PolyCo are both pretty good, especially if the fabric is a ripstop one instead of some twill bullshit. The only downside is that all the non-surplus pants in this fabric are marketed to cops and militia nerds. They're, like, the comfiest ones, though. Also, mall cargos suck ass by comparison and the women's ones have pockets that don't even work half the time. They're too small, or they have a stupid zipper, or the flap doesn't even have a closure. (And then they fall apart after like four wears.) (And they're still $60, for some reason?)