2-for-Tuesday: PureSteam Portable Fabric Steamer
- You get two garment steamers and eternal freedom from ironing
- Heats up in 2 minutes and can steam continuously for 10 with one tank of water (which, if you haven’t steamed your clothes before, is plenty)
- Small enough to fit in a travel bag, though when are hotels going to figure it out and start providing steamers instead of irons?
- Cannot be used to steam vegetables but c’mon you should be roasting those anyway
- Model: PEMINISTM (It’s like some kind of Rorschach inkblot test to see what word your brain tries to interpret it as. Ours went from “pessimism” to “feminism” to “pianissimo”)
No Wrinkles In Time
Ironing used to be serious business. Arriving at the office without a firmly pressed shirt was a fireable offense in the '80s. Mothers taught theirs children how to iron as a valuable life skill. “Pressed” wasn’t an option at the dry cleaner – it was the only option.
But The Age of Ironing has ended. Welcome to the age of steaming.
Steaming is like ironing for lazy people. It doesn’t mimic the crisp, flat perfection of ironing, but it gets the wrinkles out with about 10% of the effort and skill. It makes a shirt that was balled up at the bottom of your carry-on appear presentable – and isn’t that enough? You’re attending your spouse’s college friend’s second wedding, not giving a State of the Union address.
Steamers are to irons as beard trimmers are to razors. They both keep you looking tidy and employable without requiring a Patrick-Bateman-esque grooming ritual.
One could argue that this loosening of expectations in how we present ourselves bespeaks an underlying social rot. That our reluctance to shave cleanly and iron crisply represents the first step toward barbarism.
We would argue, however, that it reflects a healthy pragmatism. Why spend 30 minutes ironing when you could steam for 10? Why shave every morning when you could trim your beard every week? Why write 15 paragraphs about garment steamers when you could write 7 with a picture? The only meaningful currency in today’s world is time.
Why do you need two steam cleaners instead of one? We could give a long explanation of how you can leave one in your carry-on and one in your laundry room, but your time is too precious. Stop reading now and buy 'em (or don’t).
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