The most heated debate in menswear right now isn’t about gender-neutral clothes (lace for everyone!) or sneakers signaling the death knell of bench-made footwear. It’s about dress shirts.

Specifically, it’s about whether non-iron shirts, which dominate the dress-shirt market, should be a thing anymore. A recent article in The Wall Street Journal analyzed both sides of this workday divide and found that men who like shirts that don't need to be ironed are just as passionate as men who prefer putting in a little elbow grease to make their shirts look smooth.

But here's the problem: Non-iron dress shirts are a distinct non-starter. They're a lazy and environmentally unfriendly cop-out to getting dressed for work in the morning.

The thing that keeps non-iron shirts looking so smooth is formaldehyde, the highly carcinogenic chemical used to embalm dead bodies. Each batch of cloth that goes into shirts like these gets dipped in a resin bath that helps it to continually release the preservative, which helps ensure a crisp look every time you pull it out of the dryer. Most people don't notice the effects of this, but for the few who do, non-iron dress shirts can be extremely irritating.

If it weren't enough that non-iron shirts could slowly be giving you cancer (allegedly—we only have a Ph.D. in menswear), they're also kind of unnecessary. The whole point of the non-iron shirt is that it's supposed to save you time in the morning. But as we've proven, you can iron a shirt in 90 seconds or less if you have the right tools at home. If you can't find 90 seconds to improve your look in the morning, you've probably got a whole lot more to worry about—but the tradeoff shouldn't be making your undertaker’s any job easier.

So you go ahead and sweat into a stiff, chemically enhanced shirt for the rest of the summer if you want to. We'll be over here wearing literally anything else.