I recently started wearing a shirt and tie as well as slacks to work. I have about a seven mile commute. I would like to wear my cycling clothes to work, and then change into my shirt and tie and slacks. I was wondering if anyone has any ideas as to how to keep them from getting wrinkled. At my job they have a shower so I can ride my bike, change and then teach. Any ideas of how to keep the clothes from wrinkling?

Drive one day a week with four days worth of clothes if you have a place to keep them (an empty filing cabinet drawer works even.)

What mizraz said.....except you can also take two weeks' clothes in so you can ride 9/10 days.


...assuming you have the storage space.

I actually only work at this job two days a week. It is teaching at a college. I have thought about sticking clothes in a locker, but I was just wondering if there was a way to commute with the clothes with me. In the summer I wore shorts while I would teach and so it was no big deal to stick those in a backpack and ride to work. Thanks fot he advice.

Try uing a triple-folding garment bag. You will have to strap it to your rear rack.

If you roll it up, rather then fold, you won't get any wrinkles, I've been doing that with my slacks and shirt for 4 months now. Then stick them in a back back.

Yes. Shirt and tie. No jacket required. No ties required either. Its a personal choice to look good for work. I rotate my clothing and food in and out of the office. Having a shower is nice! I dont have to carry a thing on my commute other than a wallet and a cell phone.

Because of this dilemma, I now make every day a tacky tropical shirt day.

Naw... khaki's and golf shirt. I try to avoid offices that require monkey suits.

I just roll my shirt and pants and stuff it in my bag.
The important thing is cooling off before changing.

Same. Roll around something cylindrical and it will wrinkle even less (got that from someone on BF). No suit, though when folding / rolling a suit jacket, I turn it inside out onto itself first. Hard to describe.

I have an office... and a shower room. I keep a bunch of clothing at work. I need to drive once every two weeks- so I shuttle fresh clothing in/dirty clothes out.

Having been a long time commuter. I was pleased with putting my clothes in my locker. Did not like extra weight in my panniers plus they get all wrinkled. Jeans or Dockers are heavy, let alone shoes.

I have to wear "dress" clothes at work too. I used to roll them up like has been suggested, but they still arrive a little too wrinkled for my taste. About six months ago I found a really nice suit bag that fits on my rack, in fact it's designed to be a commuter bag. My clothes go in it just like a piece of carry-on luggage. It's from two wheel gear. They're on the web. It'll cost you somewhere around a $100 bucks and has been worth every penny. My shoes, clothes, everything fit into it. It really works great, and nobody who doesn't know I ride to work would never know. In fact, I've taken a suit in this thing and it arrives without wrinkles.

You can see it on the back of my bike in the picture.

I bring in a week's worth of clothes on Sunday nights. My work wardobe is business casual. Which is a good thing, as I am algeric to "Ties"

I leave 2 pairs of shoes and 2 sports jackets at the office. I have a separate waterproof, zippered, rectangular clothes bag that fits in my backpack. In it goes shirt, tie, belt, pants, socks, and underwear. When I get to work I go to the fitness centre for a shower, shave, steam and if necessary touch up my shirt and pants with the iron that's available.

i don't wear tie but wear nicer button down shirts. i have about 5 i just keep on the hook behind my door (i wear jeans too).

when needed (mostly the white shirts) i bring them home, but i started just dropping them off at the dry cleaner a few at a time. for $2-3 a shirt they'll do a good cleaning, and even better press and fold it. i can easily put these in my grocery pannier.

i keep shoes at work, so the only thing i bring is pants and clean undershirt, and pants i can wear a couple days in a row, so don't always taken them back and forth

I roll my clothes just before I leave home. I wear a suit and tie most days (not a job requirement) but I don't expect them to be completely wrinkle free. I just expect to look good. I can't justify driving to work just to take clothes and food. I use panniers rather than a backpack so I really don't care how much it weighs as I don't notice the weight on the bike.

I have pants and shirts cleaned at a cleaners near my work. Clothes are never wrinkled, and because I wear them only at the office, i can wear the pants several times.

I drop off a couple of days worth of clothes and can hang them in my cubicle. I started leaving the suv at work, since I do "need" it sometimes for work-related stuff. I can leave stuff in the vehicle as well. Now nearly all car use is reinbursed by employer! Plus the vehicle is in a security lot. I am lucky because I am the only employee who commutes and so have the shower all to myself and can hang the clothes in there while I shower and the humidity pulls out the wrinkles.

Use extra starch when ironing.