I hate ironing. I’d rather just not wear the shirt at all or wear it wrinkled than deal with ironing. But last night I thought I’d stop being lazy and iron a shirt for work. It was borderline wrinkled, but there was another shirt that needed some ironing too so I decided to just iron them both.
I turned on the iron, touched it to my shirt..and it happened. I had a hole in the shirt and part of the shirt burned onto the iron. Apparently the shirt is polyester and I had the iron set on the highest setting 
What makes it worse is that it’s a brand new shirt from ASOS that I have never worn before. I went back and forth on even buying it because of the color and style, but decided to go for it. Now it’s ruined. Has anyone else done this before? It’s a first for me. Since the hole is at the bottom, I may try out tucking it in to the highest waist jeans I have to hopefully hide it. And luckily I have an extra iron to replace the ruined one..unless anyone knows a secret for getting burned material off the iron?
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Ack! And that is such a cute shirt. I heard oven cleaner works, but I have never tried it. Best of luck!
Hm – interesting – thanks Anne! I think I’m going to try the tuck-in thing so I can at least get 1 outfit out of it.
Arghhhh! I hate that! I literally cried when I burned a whole into a silk BCBG blouse. Yes, you can tuck in the blouse or take it to a tailor to refashion!
Get your iron cleaned by using a Brillo pad or running the hot iron over some salt. I pour the salt on a newspaper.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who has done this and thank you for the advice Chandra – I will try that!
Aaaw, I’m sorry to hear about that.
I’ve just spent the whole day tailoring a ridiculously long vintage top that I bought from Topshop last week (the design was just too cute – I had to have it). I decided to iron over the hem to clean things up. I started off by being cautious by placing an old top over it but then I made the stupid mistake of ironing directly on to the top when I got impatient and BAM! A MASSIVE hole. I don’t know what to do with it now
Aw – Louisa, totally understand! That stinks. Where is the hole? Can you patch it up somehow or is it at the bottom so you can tuck it in?
Nooooo, I hate when that happens!