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Learn to fold your shirt like the Japanese!

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themadcowtipper

Smells faintly of rancid stilton.
Wow this is old, I think it is before the last time GAF switched this last time, it was old .Over year and a half old. Still cool though so no old pics from me.
 
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teiresias

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Holy crap it works, and I don't even know how, it just falls like magic into a perfectly symmetrical fold!!!!!

As I pick it up after doing the first fold it looks like it's going to be a big mess until I do the final fold and it's just RIGHT!! That's cool.

It's a little tricky with tank tops though, you have to pick the point at the shoulder first and then move down to the center part of the shirt, which is the opposite of the way it's shown so that it folds in the right place, since you have less leeway at the shoulder with a tank-top.
 
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Mejilan

Running off of Custom Firmware
Alright. I don't understand what I'm supposed to do when I lift it up. Everytime I finish the folding, the front of the shirt is covered by the bottom half. I don't get it. :(
 
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Beezy

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1. Lay the shirt down face up so the neck is to your right.
2. Pinch your left finger straight down in the middle of the shirt where you would like the fold to go.
3. Pinch your right finger on the shoulder where you want the fold to be.
4. Take your right hand and fold it over to the bottom of the shirt and pinch the shoulder ppiece and the bottom piece together.
5. Pull your arms so the right arm is on the right and the left is on the left.
6. Fold the arm piece under and there ya go!
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I'm not sure if this will help because it didn't help me. I just did exactly what I saw while watching the flash vid.
 
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Deleted member 4784

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Wow this is great. I'm going to fold all my dad's shirts like this now. :lol
 
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speedpop

Has problems recognising girls
My girlfriend folds shirts like this and I am starting to as well. She got it from her mother and father and it does make everything look neat.
 
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michael000

Banned
Heh finally got it after swearing at that video for about 30 mins. For years i've had problems folding my undershirts straight (i cut all the sleeves off of my undershirts) and this method does it perfect. Although for shirts with sleeves the fold isn't my thing cause if don't pick it up properly falls apart lol.
 
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cloudwalking

300chf ain't shit to me
heh, when i used to work at the Gap, I would fold all the t-shirts like that, and customers would often ask me how i did it. one guy came up to me once and said "you fold shirts like a ninja!" :lol

it's a bit harder with long sleeve shirts but you can pull it off with practice.
 
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NetMapel

Guilty White Male Mods Gave Me This Tag
I am quite impressed :O

The Chinese video shows the same way of folding clothes as the Japanese one, but with more details, steps, and other variation of clothes. Also, that video is from Taiwan, so no poor chicks got beaten while making that video ;)
 
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Jewbacca

Banned
Holy fuckbeans... I just showed my family and they are like "What the hell... where.. how did you learn that.."

THE INTERNET!!! FUCK YEAH!

I just amazed my family... man gaming-age rocks, I bet I could pick up chicks like that.
 
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jett

D-Member
Damn that was pretty cool. Took me quite a number of tries to figure it out, but I can finally ninjafold my clothes. Gonna try to impress some peeps tomorrow. :p
 
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aoi tsuki

Member
So old that it was mentioned in Ready Made... months ago, but good. i don't have a use for this since my t-shirts fit well enough tossed into a drawer, but it sure would've been useful when i worked at JC Penney years ago.
 
Grizzlyjin

Grizzlyjin

Supersonic, idiotic, disconnecting, not respecting, who would really ever wanna go and top that
Got it, took a couple of tries though. I guess the hardest part is the little flip you have to do, but everything else is pretty simple. I don't really fold my clothes that often though, I have plenty of closest space to hang things up. But it's always nice to pick up a new skill. :D
 
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capslock

Is jealous of Matlock's emoticon
Figured it out, took about 10 tries though, didn't figure out the pinch. Thanks for posting that.
 
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radioheadrule83

Banned
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Awesome.
 
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Mejilan

Running off of Custom Firmware
Chinese vid is much more informative. Properly shows off the 2nd major step. Gonna try again.
 
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Mejilan

Running off of Custom Firmware
Got it after 3 tries with the new (old) Chinese vid.

Here's the real trick. The motions are important, but so is the orientation of the shirt and which hands to use.

As a righty, I got it working by having the shirt's neck face to my right, waist facing left, shirt front facing up. Grab the middle point with the left hand, and the shoulder point with the right hand.

Having the shirt going from left to right (neck to waist) or using my right hand to grab the middle, and my left hand to grab the shoulder (as I was inclined) would leave me with a nicely folded shirt, but with either the back of it facing up, or the front facing up but the bottom folded over the top.
 
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tracky_dacks

Member
Got it first go, albeit rather dodgy looking. After the second attempt, I pretty much had it down pat.

Life just got that much simpler! :)
 
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