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How to Fold a Shirt

Three Methods:

Traditional Dress-Shirt Fold

Japanese Quick Fold

Keeping Away Wrinkles

Learn how to fold a shirt in the same manner as a professional laundry

service. This will keep your shirt in great condition and makes it easy to place
on the shelves for storage before wearing. Below are several different
methods for folding a shirt.

Method 1 of 3: Traditional Dress-Shirt Fold

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Lay the shirt face-down on the folding surface. You should be looking at the

Smooth out any puckers or wrinkles, so the shirt is flat front and back.

Fold the right side first. Fold about one-third of the body toward the center of the

back of your shirt.

shirt. The fold line starts at the center of the shoulder and ends at the tail. You should
see the back of your shirt with about one-third of the front folded to the back.

Neatly fold the sleeve forward, creating an angled fold at the shoulder. The

Fold the left side in the same manner.

Make a fold of several inches of the shirt tail.

Fold up the bottom half of the partially folded shirt. The tail should be just

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sleeve should line up with the edge of the first body fold.

behind the collar of the shirt now.

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Turn the entire shirt over. You should have a neatly folded shirt as you typically
see at a professional laundry or clothing store.

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Method 2 of 3: Japanese Quick Fold

Lay out the shirt. Lay the shirt out horizontally in front of you, face-up. The neck

Pinch the shoulder. On the far side of the shirt, grasp the shirt with your left hand

Pinch the midsection. On that same side, grasp the shirt with your right hand

of the shirt should be to your left.

at the top of the shoulder, halfway between the sleeve and the neck.

halfway down the shirt (think of this as the point where the bottom fold would be on

a store-bough shirt). Your right hand should be parallel with your left hand.
Make sure that you have pinched through both layers of fabric.

Fold the shirt over. Still pinching the shirt with both hands, cross your left hand
over your right hand so that the shoulder of the shirt goes down to the hem. Pinch

the hem and the shoulder together with your left hand.
Your arms should now be crossed.

Uncross your arms. Lift the shirt up as you uncross your arms, keeping your
grasp on the shirt with both arms. Pull the shirt taut with both hands and shake out

and creases.

Fold the remainder of the shirt. Holding the shirt up, lay it so that the front
portion of the unfolded sleeve is touching the ground, up to the equivalent position

where it is folded on the other side.

Lay the shirt down. Lower the rest of the shirt so that the fold is complete and the
front of the shirt is facing up.

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Method 3 of 3: Keeping Away Wrinkles

Use the permanent press cycle. This dryer cycle will allow your clothes to cool
while they are still moving, preventing wrinkles from forming. Clothes are most

likely to wrinkle while they are warm, so cooling them when they can't form wrinkles is
best.

Always starch your shirts before folding. If you really want to keep your shirts

Don't pack shirts too tightly. When you put away folded shirts, don't pack them

from wrinkling after you fold them, starch and iron your shirts before folding.

in too tightly. This is more likely to wrinkle them.

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Tips
You may use a flat rectangular cardboard template (or something
similar, such as a magazine) that is sized to fit between the left and
right body folds. This keeps your shirts uniformly folded. Place the
template on your shirt after it is face down. Finish folding. You can slide
the cardboard out after the final step.
Folding incorrectly can lead to wrinkles and creases in the wrong
places! Be careful!
Properly folded shirts travel better and need less touch-up pressing.

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