Has anybody ever successfully re-packaged a shirt???

[King Herald]

I bought a pack of two schools shirts/blouses for my daughter, but they were too small. I can take them back, have the receipt, but after a half hour struggling to get them folded, plastic strips inserted, cardboard installed, and staggered so one collar is above the other, and back in the packages to even vaguely resemble how they were when purchased, I gave up and threw them across the room!

Are they packed by machine! Do small children labour away in a dark factory doing this job! Is there a training course available? Can one get written instructions??

[georgefreeman918]

A piece of cardboard (a4 size) or a clipboard are your friend to get the right folds.

[cobra kid]

Like plaiting piss.

[Cotty]

Take them back out of the packaging, if they want it back in the packaging they can do it themselves. I don't know why they continue to sell shirts with so much packaging.

[romeogolf]

As Cotty says, you can return them out of the packaging, so long as you have all the packaging to return. They'll send it away to be re-packed.

[surveyor]

My wife can!. Her first job was making uniforms and she spent some time packaging them.

She's shown me how to fold them for packing in a suitcase etc, and all I can say is it's worse than origami. There is a 'magic' flick involved where the shirt just collapses into the fold...

[Goaty Bill 2]

Easy
Folding a shirt

apparently

[Shakermaker]

Cotty said:

Take them back out of the packaging, if they want it back in the packaging they can do it themselves. I don't know why they continue to sell shirts with so much packaging.

Me neither. When I bought a few shirts for work, I weighed up all the packaging they used, and compared it with a (reusable) clothes hanger - the packaging was about twice the weight of a hanger. And I still had to iron all the stupid creases out, unlike buying a shirt off the hanger where the creases are far more easy to iron.

Debenhams didn't care much when I shared this exciting knowledge on their facebook page...

[Dr G]

No. Nobody has ever accomplished this. Ever. Anyone that says otherwise is a liar.

Shirts are in fact plants that grow in that shape/packaging and once harvested are so harvested forever more.

You cannot unpeel a potato. You cannot un-unpack a shirt.

[straight dad]

Worked in a Gentlemen outfitters in the late 70's. Was taught how the re-card a shirt to go back into stock. Got it down to a fine art, although I'm not sure it's a skill that would get me by if I ever have to "bug out"!

[King Herald]

Glad I'm not alone then.

There were three strips of hefty stiffening plastic and three plastic clips for each shirt. Then a single piece of cardboard to mount them on, and also a piece they both sat on.

THEN a plastic bag they both went into, once upon a time. And all for £7.50 from Asda.

Marks and Sparks had the right size, for twice the price, and with the same ridiculous packaging!

When everybody is trying to save the planet by banning plastic bags, why the overload in packaging items??????

[Burgmeister]

Shirt packaging boggles my mind, so wasteful and so pointless.

[Cotty]

King Herald said:

There were three strips of hefty stiffening plastic and three plastic clips for each shirt. Then a single piece of cardboard to mount them on, and also a piece they both sat on.

At least they have stopped using metal pins. You forgot the tissue paper.

[King Herald]

Yes, plastic, tissue and cardboard, lots of it. Kind of ironic in a store that charges 5p for a poxy plastic bag.....to save the world......

[anonymous-user]

romeogolf said:

As Cotty says, you can return them out of the packaging, so long as you have all the packaging to return. They'll send it away to be re-packed.

This. Just put it all in a bag. They're not just going to put it back on a shelf.

[Iang84]

Yep nice and easy as my first job was a clothes stall so I had lots of practice. I still fold my t-shirts square now although I now hang any proper shirts I have