Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for June 09, 2024

A Boy And A Girl, Wrinkles, Quibbling Siblings, and Scenes In A Teen’s Life.. Luann has all the cool posters!

Sadly, I don’t think wrinkly clothes will ever be in fashion. It just looks sloppy.

And the best thing to do for the other type of wrinkles… moisturizing cream. ;)

When I was growing up, hairy chests were a sign of manliness, so us boys couldn’t wait to sprout hair on our chest. My chest was the last place I sprouted body hair, and by that time, suddenly it was trendy for men to be all completely smooth and hairless like seals . . . and I’m almost as hairy as Corporal Klinger, or Robin Williams. Feh.

So you walk into work with wrinkles in your blue jeans or slacks. and you tell your boss that wrinkles close are or in… He says see that door go home and iron pants, then come back to work.

Are the posters on the wall in the background of the first panel new?

That was a good one!

We haven’t ironed in years.

All? Has Luann ever done any ironing?

We were so poor growin up my mom useta make toast on our iron. An we useta have ironed cheese sandwiches

He’s ironing his pajamas!?

Tattered jeans are the thing, the distressed look. Never figured Frank ironed. The wrinkled look would not acceptable at Frank’s place of business.

I recently got a garment steamer and I’m loving it; it’s faster and easier than ironing.

So it’s okay to look like Slobs now?

The “folks” who wear their pants so low that you can see their Under-Roos will be glad to hear that. ;-)

[DUCKS]

I only iron my clothes if they’re super wrinkly or if I’m going somewhere super important.

Why iron an ugly green short sleeved shirt he will only wear around the house?

Removing/covering skin wrinkles is called vanity and will never die.

It’s strange how the natural look requires so many cosmetics.

Oh no! Does this mean I’ll have to iron my clothes to continue being against it!? I have to admit that my mother, a former ironer in a pajama factory obsessed with the perfect fold, would be very happy. Great to see Luann’s room filled with posters from plays and musicalls written by Greg Evans. I didn’t know “A Boy and a Girl”, I wonder if it’s new, maybe on the scene right now. I hope Luann will writes her own plays someday.

Note the daily comic strip on the left in panel 1. I assume since the poster for her musical “Scenes from a Teen’s Life” is on the door on the right, it’s only logical to assume that is one particular “Luann” strip she likes :)

First of all, I’m retired so I don’t really care what is in fashion. Secondly the suits, dress shirts, and such were the first thing to go after I retired, I also have enough experience to know that if you hang your shirt or pants in a steamy bathroom for about 30 min, all the wrinkles fall out.

good one Mom!

That is funny. (I’ve been buying wrinkle free clothes myself for years.)

I hang clothes up as soon as they come out of the dryer. I can’t recall the last time I ironed anything and I don’t wear wrinkly clothes.

Wrinkled skin is still in. Marks of wisdom.

When I taught primary school reading, we had to come up with a new picture to replace the iron when teaching the long “i” sound, because most of the kids didn’t know what an iron was— and that was thirty years ago.

when i was young, my mom ruined my pleated skirt by ironing out the pleats.

And the bumming-down of our society continues.

Good one Nancy.

We have Puddles but sadly no Monsto.

People have better things to do with their time than iron cloths, how boring. Leaves more time for social media, ect.

Wrinkles are not in. But easy care fabrics you don’t have to iron definitely are.

I recall a few seasons back “granny gray” hair was a thing.

Tell that to my bed sheet that is perpetually wrinkled which causes it to come loose all the time.

Haggard is the new Fresh

My wife irons…..her cross-stitching

Nancy beat me to the comment I was thinking of. But I doubt if skin wrinkles are out. Proctor, and, Gamble, etc.,have too much invested in anti wrinkle creams for that to happens.

Love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I remember I started ironing my Boy Scout Uniforms when they had inspections. I ironed a lot when I was in the Navy, especially since my wife didn’t know that dungaree trousers are pressed, inside out with port and starboard creases. When I made Chief Petty Officer, I wore mainly permanent press khakis that rarely needed an iron as long as you pulled ’em out of the dryer in time. Now, the iron has been placed in our makeshift museum of antiquated items, along side the sewing machine.

Funnily enough, I was just commenting to a friend a couple of days ago about “fashion”. First it was bleached clothes, then it was torn clothes, couple of years back I discovered it’s “fashionable” to have your blouse half-tucked in (in-between I’m trying to forget the "baggy clothes with no belt, your underwear is showing)… was wondering what kind of disheveled would be the next “fashion”, thought that maybe stains (buy fancy stains to destroy your clothes in new ways)! Now this kind of “fashion” though, I wouldn’t mind! lol

With all the thrill about no-iron clothes, there are two places for an iron.1. That top that’s just an eensie bit too tight? Ironing will loosen it up. 2. For pure ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ hotel luxury, sleeping on freshly ironed high thread count cotten sheets is up near the top, and available to all.

Suits and dress clothes need to be ironed, but casual clothing is pretty well accepted in its wrinkly-ish state. I have a bunch of collared, button-up, cotton T-shirts I wear, and I just hang them wet in the closet instead of going in the dryer. This gets them a little-less wrinkly, but definitely not creased iron-flat.

Today’s omitted title panel is a lady on what looks like a rotary dial phone, asking “Is this LUANN by Greg Evans?”.

As soon as I made enough money in my working life, I had my shirts and pants professionally done. I could iron and starch with the best of them but professionally pressed is a step above. I do still press my handkerchiefs that my wife tells me I am so old fashioned when I carry one. (I carry two because invariably she asks me for mine when we are out).

I think that it’s about time for Nancy and Frank to have Luann meet a good therapist. She still looks like a little girl, hangs around her home guided by her parents, and rarely socializes with other people. She is becoming a recluse who doesn’t even try to look attractive.

Just in the nick of time for me!!

People have ALWAYS had better things to do than iron clothes. They just had discipline!