Learn how to fold a shirt in 2 seconds
2 meg video clip and step by step instructions included. It seems like I saw a women do this on Letterman about a month or two ago.
OK, WTF just happened?!?!
* Step 1, grab two points on the shirt.
* Step 2, BOOM! Folded shirt.
It’s like a money shot, except instead you get a folded shirt. Same level of excitement too!
That is absolutely insane. I tried it using the step by step instructions. It’s a bit unclear after you make the first fold and you have one hand in the shirt and one hand out. you have to GRAB in both places, then do that flick. It seems almost like you’re turning it inside-out, but it works out in the end. This’ll cut folding time considerably. This makes me want to throw away all my coat hangers and buy drawers just so I can do this nifty folding trick more often.
Eventually I just went back to my old technique because it was faster. If you don’t get the shirt flattened out perfectly it won’t work that well. It’d work great if you’re in the retail business and are trying to fold clothes for your customer. The problem I had was that I thought you pinch the entire shirt on the bottom pinch, but you only pinch the top layer. If you had difficulty then try pausing it and going through it a few frames at a time!
Summary:
- Find the center of the shirt (top/bottom)
- Find center between neck and where the side of the shirt is (left/right)
- At the intersection, pinch shirt
- From the intersection with your other hand, go up in a straight line to the top of the shirt and pinch
- Pull the top of the shirt straight down to the bottom and add the first layer of the shirt to the pinch
- Pull out the intersection pinch
- Lay shirt face down and pull it over it self to meet other side of shirt
- Tuck the sleeve that is left over underneath the shirt
The video can also be seen here.