Unfortunately, many shirts do need ironing - but if you learn to do it yourself, you'll save enough on dry-cleaning to buy several more. There are certain things you need to keep in mind when ironing a shirt so you don't end up with more wrinkles than you started with and the answers are below.
- Difficulty:
- Moderately Easy
Instructions
Things You'll Need
- Irons
- Ironing Boards
- Distilled Waters
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Find the tag on your shirt that indicates what it's made of.
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Plug in the iron and set the dial to the recommended setting for that fabric. One hundred percent cotton and linen need a high setting; wools and cotton blends call for medium heat; polyester, rayon, nylon, silk, acetate and acrylic all need a low heat setting.
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Fill the iron with distilled water if you will be using the "steam" setting on cottons or linens.
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Iron the back of the collar first, then the front, taking care to iron in from the edges a little at a time to avoid creases.
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Open cuffs fully. Iron inside first, then outside.
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Iron sleeves after smoothing them flat to avoid creases. Do sleeve backs first, fronts second and take extra care on armhole seams.
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Hang shirt over board so that one front panel of the shirt can be extended flat (collar at narrower end of board). Iron from shoulder to shirttail.
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Rotate shirt over board so that you iron the back next, and the other front panel last.
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Comments
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Yeah you forgot the shoulders!
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what about the shoulders the most difficult bit.
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Very Essential For Us.
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dkeyes
Oct 31, 2009
Have always ironed shirts/tailored blouses inside out, it avoids creases/marks on front side. Also enables you to iron into steams/tailoring much easier. -
bargainhuntmom
Jun 23, 2009
Distilled water is a good idea, we get build up from minerals in the water at our house.
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