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Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 03-05-2005, 04:06 AM:

This video isn't in English, but you'll get the idea.

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[ 03-05-2005, 06:25 AM: Message edited by: Joe Redifer ]

Posted by Monte L Fullmer (Member # 2797) on 03-05-2005, 04:32 AM:

Cute - a more slicker way to fold "T" shirts to place in the drawers.

(...now if we can get clowns how to assemble prints as easy as this.... lol)

-Monte

Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 03-05-2005, 10:57 PM:

Foul! There's a jump cut before she flips it around.

Posted by Josh Jones (Member # 447) on 03-05-2005, 11:18 PM:

Interesting

Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 03-05-2005, 11:58 PM:

Yes, there are two or three cuts but they don't affect the final outcome. Notice her hands stay in virtually the same position through the cuts.

I tried the method and it works pretty well. It'll only take you one or two times to practice before you get the hang of it.

The problem I see with this method is that there is one sleve that hangs out underneath the folded shirt. If it is in a pile with a bunch of other clothes and that pile gets jostled around it's easy to get all messed up. If you go to pick the shirt up, you have to hold it carefully for it to stay folded.

This might be a good way to fold shirts at home but it wouldn't be OK for a retail store. Imagine there is a pile of folded shirts on a shelf. Customers will rifle through them to find the one they like the best. (Size, color, etc.) Folded the way shown in the video, the whole pile will end up a wrinkled mess in a very little time. Folded the standard way, the crease is at the bottom facing the customer. It's easy to go through the stack and keep the shirts in relative neat order.

I suppose that because of the ease with which you can quickly refold the shirts this might not be a problem. However, the average American retail sales associate doesn't have a lot of time to spend keeping stacks of shirts in order.

I, having done the job, prefer to use a folding board. It's nothing more than a piece of foam core or poster board cut to the size you want the finished product to be. (One for each size of garment you sell.) Simply place the board over the shirt to be folded and bring the three sides up tight against the edges. Flip the shirt over, pull the board out from the top of the shirt and start on the next one.

Some stores are now buying these "folding machines" that look like cross between a four wheeled A/V cart and a drop-leaf table. You line the garment up with the marks on the table top then flip the "leaves" closed on top of the table. Instant fold! It's pretty neat and you can fold a whole bunch of items to the EXACT same size.

In retail, the appearence of your goods can make a big difference in your sales!

The place where I can see this method coming in REAL handy is when you have a lot of shirts to fold in a short amount of time. Say, in a factory that doesn't use automatic folding equipment or in a small/medium sized shop like a silk screen business. IF the goods were going to be boxed up only to be taken out and refolded by somebody else at the other end of the shipping chain the amount of time saved by folding this way COULD end up being significant. When time/motion studies of factory workers movements break the steps down to fractions of a second, the difference between folding one shirt every 10 seconds and folding one shirt every 5 seconds can add up to a lot of money! (Could it be that's where she picked up the technique?)

Maybe I'd like to try this method out on the sales floor but I don't know if it will work for the long term. It'd probably be okay for use at home, though.

Posted by Josh Jones (Member # 447) on 03-06-2005, 05:25 AM:

Can someone actually translate what that women is saying?

JJ

Posted by David Stambaugh (Member # 1102) on 03-06-2005, 11:51 AM:

She says: "Film handlers are understandably concerned about the future of their jobs, what with the impending rollout of D-Cinema. So NATO (National Association of Theater Owners), always known for taking care of its own, hired me to make this instructional video. NATO hopes that learning this new skill will help former booth workers to secure employment at The Gap someday."

(It's just a joke!! [evil]

)

Posted by Jon Miller (Member # 163) on 03-06-2005, 12:46 PM:

If this thread had been started several days earlier, I could have enlisted the help of a couple of Japanese interpreters brought in for a special event held last Thursday where I work. Oh, well...

Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 03-06-2005, 08:04 PM:

Pay my rate and I'll do it (the translation that is). [Big Grin]

Posted by Richard Hamilton (Member # 321) on 03-06-2005, 10:06 PM:

Does it really sound like Japanese?

Posted by Paul Mayer (Member # 355) on 03-06-2005, 10:35 PM:

It's definitely Japanese.

Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 03-06-2005, 10:51 PM:

Its funny... I first saw this about a year ago.....

Mark

Posted by Jason Black (Member # 684) on 03-06-2005, 10:54 PM:

Mark,

What's funny is the fact that I tried this WHILE watching the vid and my shirt din't look like that... AT ALL...

LOL...

Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 03-06-2005, 11:03 PM:

Yea, I think you've got to have those teenie Japaneese hands to be able to fold it correctly.... Thats gotta be it....

Mark

Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 03-10-2005, 11:56 PM:

quote: Jason Black
I tried this WHILE watching the vid and my shirt din't look like that... AT ALL...

I'm tellin' ya, it's a ruse. There's an edit right before she flips it over. They could've done anything to it underneath.

Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 03-12-2005, 01:22 AM:

Please tell me that Richard Greco started this thread... [Razz]

What's next? How to fold underpants in one stroke? [Wink]

Posted by Adam Martin (Member # 641) on 03-12-2005, 02:09 AM:

Apparently, the military has some top secret method for folding underwear that allows for storing them in the most compact form. Of course, I can't find anything to tell me how it's done.

Posted by Don Sneed (Member # 955) on 03-12-2005, 08:16 AM:

My wife is Japanese, I have no problem....plus she showed me that trick a few years ago....it's too cool, especically when I saw her do it the first time....I said WOW...she'd looked at me like doesn't everybody to it this way...

Posted by Brad Light (Member # 2961) on 03-12-2005, 02:59 PM:

Laundry day will never be the same now.

Posted by Wolff King Morrow (Member # 2226) on 03-12-2005, 05:13 PM:

The video is Japanese. I took some Japanese in college, but mostly focused on the hiragana, katakana, and Kanji writing system. Hey, I was a geek into importing Japanese games so I could play them months before the U.S. release. I remember completing Final Fantasy 7 about 6 months before it hit the shelves here in the U.S.

Hi Don! Nice to see you around again! I got that 6Ad unit replaced from DTS. I was able to prove to them the backplane motherboard was shorting to mute, so they finally sent me a new one. Now I'm having to update various 6D units with new rom chips and drives. Easy, but a fun break from the normal routine. Its much like repairing PC's, which is what I like to do as a hobby anyway.

Hope to see you around again soon!