How to Fold a Women's Suit for a Suitcase

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is Melody on behalf of Expert Village. I’m going to show you how to fold and hopefully keep beautifully neat and no wrinkles, a very nice little business suit that you might be needing when you get to your destination and you don’t want to have to go and have it pressed. We have a skirt and a jacket. Now you’d think you can just fold this in some direction and we’d be done, right? Well, no that’s not right, what we want to do is try and keep it as flat as possible but then we want to take another piece of clothing and lay it inside of it, to give it a little bit of a cushion, so when you do fold it over, it doesn’t create a crease at the folded point. Now it’s not always that important to keep things flat, but this is a very important suit and we want to make sure that it stays flat. Also when you’re putting it in the suitcase, be sure you’re putting it on a level area, that there’s not a bunch of big dips beneath it even if you have to pad the other clothing in to make it work for you. And here is our jacket; we’re going to do a simple, a simple fold on this particular jacket because of the kind of material it is, we can do this. If it were, straight cotton there may be a different way that you’d have to fold it and put different types of padding and things because it would definitely have a crease if you did a certain type of material like this. All right, we need to get this one done, so I’m just going to fold this arm over, and fold this arm over, and I’m going to make sure this is straight. I’m going to take a piece of clothing; again, just do a quick mini little fold on that and where this crease is going to be I’m going to put this piece of clothing. And I’m keeping the arms inside on this particular one. All right, here you go, this is the business suit, keeping it nice and neat. In my next segment, I’ll be showing you one more piece of clothing, that will be something that you want to have on the top so you can get to it and also because it’s the bulkiest thing you’ll probably have in your entire bag. "