If the collar stays are sewn in, don’t worry about it.

Preserving Your Pants

Many of the same suggestions that work on your dress shirts will also work on your dress pants. For the sake of brevity, I’ll just review the pants-specific tips.

As long as you don’t violate the fabric care instructions, ironing and dry cleaning are your best bets for getting rid of trouser wrinkles.

You can also hang your pants in the bathroom while taking a hot shower, thus allowing the steam to help smooth out some of the wrinkles.

Preventing wrinkles in the first place will save you a lot of time in the end. It should go without saying, but hang up your pants immediately after ironing or laundering.

There are numerous methods for hanging dress pants, so it sort of comes down to personal preference.

If you’re like me, you have a hodgepodge of different types of hangers in your closet. Unless you are willing to standardize your assortment of hangers, you may need to resort to using a few methods of hanging your pants.

Never hang pants on wire hangers unless the hanger has a reinforced cross bar. If you’re stuck with regular hangers, line up your pants along the crease on each leg and drape them over the crossbar of the hanger.

Try to keep the creases even throughout the pant. And remember, unless the cross bar has some sort of anti-slip coating, your pants will likely slide off (eventually).

A better method is to use single clamp hangers (also called skirt hangers) and hang your pants by their waistband or the cuffs. Double clamp hangers are best used for hanging pants by the waistband.

Of course, these clamp hangers only work if you have a full closet that allows the full length of the pants to hang.

If you’re up to the task, you can try your hand at the Savile Row method:

It works with regular hangers and shorter closets. Plus it stops your pants from sliding off the hanger.