How to Press Dress Pants
If you have an important meeting or function to attend and no time to bring your dress pants to the dry cleaners, you will have to learn how to press them at home. All you need to iron dress pants is a quality iron and an ironing board, which you can purchase for under $50 at any store that sells home goods. Having the ability to press your own dress pants at home will save you money in the long run, since dry cleaning bills can be expensive and a hassle. Does this Spark an idea?
Instructions
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Turn your dress pants inside out so that you see the seams.
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Turn on your iron to the proper setting and wait a minute for it to heat up. For cotton dress pants, turn it to the highest setting. Polyester clothes require less heat. Set up your ironing board. Fill your iron with water if it has a steam function. Steam helps press wrinkles out of cotton very quickly and reduces the chance that the clothes will burn.
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Press your hot iron over the waistband part of your dress pants first. Iron the fly area, seams, hems.
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Turn your dress pants right side out and cover the edge of the ironing board with the waist. Continue to iron the waistband, fly area, seams and any pleats.
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Remove the pants from the ironing board, fold the pants lengthwise and iron the inside and outside legs, making sure the creases line up. Iron the cuffs last. Hang up your dress pants or lay them out flat to cool off.
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Tips & Warnings
Spray starch on the pants to make them stiffer.
Do not linger on any area of the fabric for more than a few seconds, or the fabric may burn.
