I recently began wearing linen odd trousers again for the season and was reminded how the Whirlpool Fabric Freshener (WFF) has changed my life for the better. I purchased one more than three years ago and, unlike almost any other under $200 device with moving parts that I can think of, continue to use it every week in warm weather. I originally hoped it would be a general purpose steamer, but that proved not to be the case. It does a poor job of getting the wrinkles out of cotton polos after washing, which was one of the original objectives, and I will not put jackets in it for fear of popping a seam. It does however do one thing very well. Insert two pair of wrinkled linen trousers and remove two pair of perfectly wearable pants twenty minutes later.
Linen trousers of course are a casual wear staple in warm weather but the challenge is how to deal with the creasing and rumples. After one wearing, and certainly no more than two, they are a mess and pre-Whirlpool my choices were to have them dry cleaned or to spend ten minutes going over them with a steamer. Neither is much fun two or three times a week. As I said, the WFF changed that, and it has now performed faithfully for three entire seasons without a glitch.
Highly recommended for men who wear linen trousers and can afford the space for a one dimensional gadget. It sells for about $175 at various online outlets and more than pays for itself every year.
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$99 for the upright model at my local Lowe's. Thanks for the recommendation. Given my propensity for linen, it'll pay for itself by the end of the season
Never tried nor even seen one of these, though I'm not a steamer fan really. Steam relaxes fabric; which is the real reason steaming jackets leads to disaster since they lose the careful shaping the tailor put in there with the (sometimes dry) iron.
I prefer the damp cloth/dry iron on my linen trousers and jackets, I can avoid the seams too when I'm tempted to give a burst of steam.
Do you wear your linen trousers with odd jackets? And if so, with that type of jackets?
This is quite different from my experience. In Brazil there is a television channel devoted to all the latest gadgets and we fell for a big steamer and a water jet cleaner. They have been out of their boxes twice in 18 months and now occupy a hall cupboard where they comprise our most expensive junk. They work all right but it takes an engineering degree to assemble them and the patience of Job to operate them. So it's back to elbow grease.
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