Letter: Letters: Iron rules

From FELICITY EATON

I don’t iron (‘How crumpled clothes could save the world’, Forum 3 October).

Well, no, to be absolutely accurate I iron every two or three months
for half an hour or so, but always as a luxury activity. I anticipate ironing
next around 3 November, a couple of weeks after a family party at which
I shall indulge myself by getting out my grandmother’s embroidered tablecloths.

I ironed last on 15 July. My son was going to college for the first
time and I did something I have never done in my life before – ironed his
shirts, and even his shorts. That must say something about social expectations
and/or my feeble-mindedness. My sons would never dream of expecting their
clothes to be ironed.

Thanks, Vitali Matsarski. Non-ironers of the world unite.

Felicity Eaton Baldock Hertfordshire