# If you sleep in your shirt will the wrinkles be gone by morning? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 27, 2006, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-sleep-in-your-shirt-will-the-wrinkles-be-gone-by-morning/366207 "2006-07-27T03:09:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MessyPaint](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@MessyPaint](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MessyPaint)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2006, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-sleep-in-your-shirt-will-the-wrinkles-be-gone-by-morning/366207/1 "2006-07-27T03:09:22Z")
I hope so. I have a really important client to go to tommorow and all of my laundry is dirty, the stores are closed, my iron is broken, and the quarters got jammed in the dryer. I guess only time will tell. Shoot. ---
**Author:** ![mrald](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3da27b/32.png) [@mrald](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrald)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2006, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-sleep-in-your-shirt-will-the-wrinkles-be-gone-by-morning/366207/2 "2006-07-27T03:14:35Z")
no way, the wrinkles will be way worse. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2006, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-sleep-in-your-shirt-will-the-wrinkles-be-gone-by-morning/366207/3 "2006-07-27T03:22:08Z")
If you have no Iron available, put your shirt on a Hanger and hang it in your bathroom and take a long, hot shower with the exhaust fan off. Most of the wrinkles will be gone. Sleeping in a shirt makes it look like “What did you do sleep in that Shirt” wrinkled. Jim {BTW: this is a trick my wife taught me} ---
**Author:** ![percussion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/43a26b/32.png) [@percussion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/percussion)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2006, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-sleep-in-your-shirt-will-the-wrinkles-be-gone-by-morning/366207/4 "2006-07-27T03:28:38Z")
dude, you must be Martin Short in “pure luck” ---
**Author:** ![MessyPaint](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@MessyPaint](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MessyPaint)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2006, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-sleep-in-your-shirt-will-the-wrinkles-be-gone-by-morning/366207/5 "2006-07-27T03:36:40Z")
But it’s so hard to breath in all that steam! **mrald** spooked me so i went and soaked it in water and put it over the fan…I guess I was sort of on the right track. ---
**Author:** ![StuffLikeThatThere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc8723/32.png) [@StuffLikeThatThere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StuffLikeThatThere)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2006, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-sleep-in-your-shirt-will-the-wrinkles-be-gone-by-morning/366207/6 "2006-07-27T04:07:48Z")
Another vote for steaming it in the bathroom. Works a treat! If you can’t stand the steam, just leave the shirt in bathroom. There’s no rule that you have to be in the shower while it runs. ---
**Author:** ![mrald](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3da27b/32.png) [@mrald](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrald)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2006, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-sleep-in-your-shirt-will-the-wrinkles-be-gone-by-morning/366207/7 "2006-07-27T04:10:15Z")
Spray with water and throw in the dryer, or Febreeze works to wet it down and freshen it up then dry, works like a charm. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2006, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-sleep-in-your-shirt-will-the-wrinkles-be-gone-by-morning/366207/8 "2006-07-27T05:13:21Z")
Don’t be afraid to give it some gentle tugs while it’s drying, either. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2006, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-sleep-in-your-shirt-will-the-wrinkles-be-gone-by-morning/366207/9 "2006-07-27T09:23:43Z")
I’ve also put in under my mattress while I sleep to press it, but do not sleep in it. It will be much much worse. ---
**Author:** ![peri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/67e7ee/32.png) [@peri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peri)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2006, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-sleep-in-your-shirt-will-the-wrinkles-be-gone-by-morning/366207/10 "2006-07-27T16:43:15Z")
Keep a spray bottle for water handy. A light spray of warm water will handle most wrinkles and creases.