This was a particularly nasty one. Usually it's more insidious and forms a small hole that I notice but forget about and then end up wearing it to some important business meeting. It happened to a bunch of my Brooks Brother's shirts recently. Non-iron. God I love those shirts. So I thought the problem rested on them. But now I am thinking that it has to do with how I sit at my desk. I'm a lefty, so I use the mouse with my right hand. This leaves my elbow free to sit on the desk with my hand under my chin, pondering the universe.
I am become Death, Destroyer of fine dress shirts (but only the left elbow)
4 comments:
elbow patches. very professorial.
Good call. I'll ponder that.
That's hysterical, because I was sitting here resting my left elbow on the desk, hand-to-chin, as I read it...thinking about how I just bought six new brooks brothers shirts, and I might cry if I damage them at all in the next 10 years.
I have the same problem. I noticed that I was always blowing out the elbows on my favorite shirts. It is my right arm, I am a righty.
I tried being focused on keeping my elbow off the desk. Didn't help. I finally realized that it happened to my favorite shirts cause I wore them way more frequently then others.
I devised a method for ensuring I spread the wear out evenly among my shirts. I hung a little ring on the hanger after each wear. In the morning I selected a shirt from the hangers with the fewest number of rings on it. I have yet to have a blow out since then. Also, I have saved a ton of time not trying to remember what I wore recently or too often. Just looked at the rings and grabbed.
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