If you're travelling for business or you're going on holiday for a celebration, you might be wondering the best way to fold your shirts for travel to keep them wrinkle-free and save space.
To fold button-up shirts for travel, we suggest following dress shirt packing steps such as buttoning up the shirt, folding the sleeves diagonal, folding them back up, folding the length of your shirt then flip, smooth and pack!
In our shirt packing guide below we will take you through our step by guide to folding your shirts crease-free, other packing techniques to save space in your luggage and some tips for packing clothes in your suitcase.
Folding a shirt and packing it in your suitcase sounds easy right? But if you are not planning to pack iron and your accommodation might not have one, you want to make sure you are packing your shirts as crease free as possible.
Other packing techniques like rolling your dress shirt can help to save space, but a well-folded shirt is the only way you will keep them crease-free.
We've listed our step by step for folding your shirt the right way down below.
A big disadvantage to packing a shirt with the steps above is that it will give you limited space in your suitcase, if suitcase space is often an issue when you pack then we would suggest trying out different packing techniques to create lots of space.
Rolling is the best possible method if you have minimal space in your suitcase, by tightly rolling your clothing you can free up so much room, however, on delicate shirts especially the risk of creases is much higher.
Bundling involves packing one smaller item of clothing inside another and folding them, it's a popular packaging technique if you have a lot of clothes to pack which are different sized items, there is also less space for wrinkles.
The only downside to this method of choice is that it is very time-consuming.
Vacuum packing beats the folding method if you have to pack a lot of irregular-sized clothes or long-sleeved clothes which can take up a lot of room. It essentially takes all the air out of the clothing and allows you to free up a whole load of space in your luggage.
This does require you to invest in a vacuum packer however and is a little time-consuming.
Folding your clothes when packing is a very popular method and can be useful for organising your clothes and planning outfits, it does however take up a lot of room in your suitcase and can come with all kinds of creases.
If you've reached your destination only to find that your shirt still has a large number of creases despite packing it well, do not fret, there are ways to get the creases out of your favourite shirts with no iron required.
Now we know the best way to fold a shirt for travel and some alternative methods for saving space, we've listed some other general packing tips below to keep your suitcase organised and utilise the space as much as you can.
Overall, folding shirts for travel to keep them crease-free is easier than you think without step by step method above, just make sure to keep all the buttons done up and avoid rolling the shirt or bundling it since these methods can cause creases in your shirts.
To save space we recommend rolling other clothes when possible, using packing cubes or vacuum sealing them, always weigh your suitcase beforehand however to check your bag is not overweight.
