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Filing the T-Shirts

By Jeri Dansky - September 11, 2014

in Product Design

What do you do when your wardrobe consists largely of T-shirts, and you don't have enough room to store them? Not everyone has enough closet space to hang those T-shirts, so dresser drawers get used—and are often crammed to overflowing. Furthermore, the T-shirts at the bottom of the stack rarely get worn, because no one can see them. One solution: Fold the T-shirts and file them away, saving space and adding visibility.

Brittany Moser, on her Darkroom and Dearly blog, shows how much space she saved when she went with the folded approach. Brittany says the shirts do tend to get creases—but no more than when she folded them and laid them flat. She takes the one she wants to wear that day into the shower room with her, to steam out the creases.

Andrea Dekker has a video showing how she folds T-shirts, and Brittany has provided these step-by-step images. This all seems easy enough—but for those who want more help (or a cleaner look), there's Pliio.

The Pliio clothing filers, made of paperboard and polypropylene, were created by professional organizer Clare Kumar and designer Yuriko Zakimi. The filers help anyone fold T-shirts to a uniform 6 inches by 9 inches—in under 5 seconds. The inventor says that Pliio drawer makeovers have yielded 20-30% more storage space.

As organizer Julie Bestry explains (and you can see in the video): "A Pliio folding filer is a pad about the size of a small placemat, which is placed in the center of the article of clothing you wish to fold. You manually fold in the sides/sleeves to conform to the edges of the pad, and then fold the Pliio from one end to the other."

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Kris

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Cardboard would have to be such, which does not leave discoloration on T-shirts. cardboard is recyclable material so there is no good quality, but a good idea to lower the cost :)
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Ld

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What if, what what what if, if if, W H A T I F..
.i use a piece of cardboard instead of the Pliio?
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Colin

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I've taken to rolling my t-shirts. The process is basically steps 1 and 2 from above and then roll starting from the bottom of the shirt. They are then loaded into my dresser drawer like bullets in a box of ammo same as above in that you can see every shirt just no extra hardware and some additional space saved. Every time I do laundry, the shirts still in the drawer are pushed to the front and newly washed shirts are placed in the back to help promote cycling through all of my shirts. Shirts remaining at the front for too long do get wrinkly and are either re-washed or considered for donation due to disuse.

Love the concept of filing my shirts but don't think it creates a need to make a purchase that facilitates it.
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