How Does Everyone Keep Their Dinner Clothes Wrinkle Free?

[Wish Upon A Star]

We are going to WDW for 3 days before our cruise on April 17th and then back to WDW for 3 more days after the cruise. How does everyone keep their dinner clothes for the cruise from getting wrinkled? We've never packed anything besides shorts before and I don't know how the "good" clothes are going to be being packed away for a few days before we use them.

Do you bring a travel iron? Pack up the dress clothes in different suitcases to keep them seperate from every day wear?

Anyone have any ideas to share??

Thanks.

 

[Mjasp]

Irons are not allowed in the cabins (fire hazard)

We sent all our formal and semi formal clothes to be ironed. The price is half of dry cleaning. It cost us about $20, family of 4.

Joanna

 

[minnieluvzmickey]

Bring some Downy wrinkle releaser with you and spray your clothes a few hours before you are going to wear them.

Works Great!

 

[ann-e-mator]

to keep our clothes from getting wrinkled, I packed half the dress on one layer, then added some other clothes on top before folding the other half of the dress back in the suitcase, so there isn't a crease in it from the folding (I hope this makes sense...hard to describe). For DH, I put his dress shirt inside his dinner jacket before placing them in the suitcase to keep the shirt from getting wrinkled...

Also, when we went to the parks first, I took the dinner clothes out and hung them up while we stayed there, then the night before the cruise put them back in the suitcase at the last minute.

None of our clothes even needed a touch up when we arrived on board...

 

[justmestace]

We don't keep them wrinkle-free....we just go around wrinkled like the other 98% !!!

 

[dencord7]

When we went on our first cruise we ironed all are clothes and wraped each pc in white tissuse paper. Worked great I hung tissuse paper over the hangers in our garment bag for all are fancy clothes and it kept them pretty much wrinkle free. I bought like five 20 sheet packs and cut them in half for dd clothes when you iron shorts and shirts wrap the tissuse on the inside fold and on the out side. Cost me around $7.00 this really worked like a charm.

 

[HooKooDooKu]

I believe there is a regular on board the forum that suggests rolling your cloths to pack them and keep them rinkle free.

 

[dianthus]

Here's a trick I use that works well - Go to your dry cleaners and ask for a dozen plastic apparel bags that they use to cover clothing with.

Put each dress/suit in plastic cleaners bag. Take all garments and fold in half- pack in suitcase/suit bag. Take them out- wrinkle free.... Don't pack other stuff with them- use one suitcase for formalwear. The dry cleaner bags help stop the wrinkles. Works like a charm!

I also pack a small bottle of Downy wrinkle releaser for tops, shorts, etc... Keeps you out of the laundry room & wrinkle free.

Large ziplocks & rolling items helps a great deal too.

 

[DepCor0311]

There are things called "Folding Packs" or "Folding Boards" that you can use...you neatly fold your clothes into these things that are kind of like big nylon envelopes that close with velcro...and then pack them...I used some for a Vegas trip earlier this month...with a silk shirt and it worked great. I got mine at Target, in the luggage section. You can put 3-5 shirts in each one, and they also cut down on packing space.

 

[traycie2201]

There are irons in the laundry rooms on board but i plan on sending my formal stuff to be ironed when we get on board, it's not too expensive and saves me a job.

 

[buginarug]

You can also try bringing wrinkle resistant fabrics or even a hanging bag

 

[PizzieDuster]

I have to agree with the dry cleaner bags and pack your formal wear alone. I also picked up stacks of drycleaner hangers that were rubber band together and I put a stack of 20 in each suitcase and when I unpacked I just hung everything up.

My dad gave me a great tip. I have 2 boys - or 3 if I count my husband I stacked their t-shirts all on top of each other. Pressing out any wrinkles and I layered like I was making lasagna! Ummmm, for a 7 day - a picky son - I had like 15 t-shirts just for one son! I just stacked them - folded them once over in half. I did my shirts the same way. Same with shorts. They came out not wrinkled. And then I just took my dry cleaner hangers and 1-2-3- all hung up in about 3 minutes.

But I obsess.

 

[PizzieDuster]

Originally posted by PizzieDuster
I have to agree with the dry cleaner bags and pack your formal wear alone. I also picked up stacks of drycleaner hangers that were rubber band together and I put a stack of 20 in each suitcase and when I unpacked I just hung everything up.

My dad gave me a great tip. I have 2 boys - or 3 if I count my husband I stacked their t-shirts all on top of each other. Pressing out any wrinkles and I layered like I was making lasagna! Ummmm, for a 7 day - a picky son - I had like 15 t-shirts just for one son! I just stacked them - folded them once over in half. I did my shirts the same way. Same with shorts. They came out not wrinkled. And then I just took my dry cleaner hangers and 1-2-3- all hung up in about 3 minutes.

But I obsess.

 

[Dreamer04]

Another vote here for onboard service! Our first day, right after we got access to our room, I opened our garment bag and sent our "dinner clothes" and a few of my casual dresses out for pressing. It was great! They even did DD's Cinderella ball gown.

All week long, we had pressed clothing. This is the one luxury onboard, that I will not give up! (Picture a starving Scarlett-fist raised) It was a very refreshing change.

Ursula

 

[Dreamer04]

Originally posted by justmestace
We don't keep them wrinkle-free....we just go around wrinkled like the other 98% !!!

ROFLMAO!!!!

 

[webray]

We just throw them in the suitcase..and as soon as our luggage arrives on the ship we stuff them in a laundry bag and let the DCL laundry press them up for us.

Works great, very inexpensive.

 

[crisi]

You can also try hanging them in the bathroom while you shower and letting the steam release them.

I brought a silk dress with a tendancy to wrinkle. It has very simple lines. First night I pulled it out, wet it down until the wrinkles let out, and let it hang flat dry. By the time I took a shower the next morning, I could hang a dry wrinkle free dress in the closet. That worked well for that dress.

I had given this a try at home, so I was pretty sure it would work.

 

[Regina]

Here's another vote for giving them to the room steward and having them pressed. They'll arrive by 5:00pm the following day. Since the first night is casual dress, it works out perfectly.

One thing about the Downy wrinkle release, it's for cotton. I wouldn't spray it on the fabric that most formalwear comes in.

 

[BuzzBoyMom]

I swear by the dry cleaning bags! Not sure why, but those plastic bags work wonders! Our clothes were just fine.

Why not try the dry cleaning bags (we kept collecting ours in the guest room closet). Then if your clothes still need pressing, send them out. Perhaps only half the clothes may need to be pressed. But we've never had a problem.

 

[Wish Upon A Star]

Thanks guys for the wonderful ideas!

The dry cleaning bags do have a way of keeping things wrinkle-free . . .

Awesome ideas!