questions about wrinkles & creases

true or false: a "perfectly" fitted/tailored uniform will seldom
wrinkle during a 8-hour workday

Sharon Hays...

False. The only way to stay totally wrinkle free during an 8 hour day is to
stand totally immobile. If you move or sit, you will wrinkle.

Kate Dicey...

False - or at least, too general. It depends partly on the fabrics and
partly on use. Even my father's Geives & Hawkes hand tailored uniforms
would crease after an 8 hour working day, unless he was standing on
parade all the time - NOT likely as an RAF officer!

true or false: heavy starch will help resist wrinkles.

Sharon Hays...

No way to answer this. Starch will help with wrinkles in sturdy natural
fibers, like cotton, linen, etc. But it's not at all appropriate for high
poly content garments. Since most industrial uniforms have a high poly
content to make them long wearing and easy to clean, you don't want to use
starch on them. Spray starch will do 2 things on poly fabrics. It will
either form a flaky crust (which is good for pie but not clothing) or it
will scorch.

Kate Dicey...

Again, it depends:

On what you are starching - Linen will crease no matter what, and starch
will help set the creases. Cotton is more forgiving in some weaves than
others...

Use and circumstances: any time you sweat or the atmosphere is damp,
starch will soften ans set again in nice crumpled bag mode!

Poly doesn't take starch, and is naturally crease resistant.