How to Fold Dress Slacks for a Suitcase

Video Transcript

"Hi, I’m Melody on behalf of Expert Village. I just gave you a tip on filling a small space in your suitcase with the unmentionables and now I’m going to show you how to fold a pair of dress slacks. I take them and shake them out to see if I can find where the seams are and the pleats, I’ve got a little off there, OK and you can grab it at the waist, at the fly area and go down the legs looking for that, that seam, that point, you want to find that crease in there, and I would take them from the place that the coat hanger would normally hold them on, in a closet and I lay them out, this particular crease is not very even, but pretend like yours is, anyway. Ok, now I would either roll them, which would be something similar to this and you could put something in the middle if you have a thinner pair of pants and you don’t want them to be wrinkled. You could actually stick some shorts in, like that, if they weren’t too thick. To prevent them from squashing down and making creases every place they’ve folded you could do it that way, or again, depending on your space in your suitcase, you can just keep them as flat as possible, fold them that way and again this way, keeping your fly closed there, so it’s a neat little package and then just put them in a nice level spot, where they’ll not get shoved too much with other clothes. In our next segment, I’ll show you how to fold another piece of clothing and hopefully it’ll remain wrinkle free and fit in this suitcase. "