How to Put Military Creases in a Shirt

Ok so you think you want to join the military or police or fire department...

You know that for military, police and fire Image is everything and you need to look the part.

But getting that hard military crease in your uniforms can be difficult.

Take some advice from someone who has been there and your uniforms will always look crisp with tight creases

Difficulty: Moderately Challenging

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• spray starch or home made starch solution in a spray bottle
• Iron
• Ironing board
• towel
• shirt or pants to be ironed.

1. Place folded thick towel on ironing board.

2. Set iron to steam setting if it is safe for what you are ironing. I am assuming that this is for a military person and the shirt or pants are cotton.

3. Lay one sleeve of the shirt on the towel making sure that you line up the bottom seam with the bottom of the sleeve.

4. smooth out the outside portion of the sleeve so that the sleeve lays flat on the towel without any wrinkles. Make sure that you have a straight line from the top of the shoulder to the top of the cuff of the sleeve

5. Spray the area at the top of the sleeve where you want the crease very heavily with your spray starch or spray starch solution. Then Iron flat with your hot iron making sure that you get a crisp hard crease in the sleeve. Use more starch as necessary. (you WILL go through a lot of starch!) Make sure to starch the entire sleeve with extra starch along the seam.

6. Turn sleeve over, flatten and repeat starch and ironing until both sides have a crisp flat crease.

7. Repeat for other sleeve as you did in steps 5 and 6, then iron the shirt using starch front to back making sure that it is stiff enough to stand up by itself.

8. For pants you will fold them with your zipper seam touching the back seam. Legs should be seam to seam. Iron each leg seam to seam just as you did with the shirt making sure that you use enough starch to make the pants nearly stand up on their own and that the crease runs straight down the leg front to back. You want a hard crisp crease that will remain that way throughout your work shift so don't skimp on the starch!

Resources

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[edieness]

on 8/10/2009 Great tips on How to Put Military Creases in a Shirt.

[writedesign]

on 6/7/2009 I used to do this for my dad when he was in the military. 5*