‘I've never ironed anything in my life'
WOMAN'S WEEKLY|March 10, 2020
It’s a funny old world
Gabrielle Mullarkey
‘I've never ironed anything in my life'

Recently, I shocked a group of otherwise unshockable women by admitting that I’ve never ironed a piece of clothing in my life. Cue gasps around the room.

‘That revelation explains a lot,’ snorted one person less than cryptically, looking me over from top to toe.

This is because I like to wear a lot of cotton and linen, and don’t give a monkey’s how crumpled it is. I watch people swanning round the tropics in TV costume dramas wearing beautifully pressed pleats, and think ‘servants’.

This story is from the March 10, 2020 edition of WOMAN'S WEEKLY.

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