How to Steam the Front of Jeans

Video Transcript

"Hello. I'm Donna Beth Joy Shapiro on behalf of Expert Village, and today I'm going to show you how to iron a pair of jeans. In this clip, I want to talk about steaming these very nice designer jeans. It's interesting because the tag here says that you can wash them in the machine separately because these are bleeders, and iron if necessary. I'm not going to iron them because I don't want to get any shiny spots on them, so I'm going to steam them. I'm going to start here at the top. By the way, these are bleeders, they apparently bled on something in the bag that they were in. I suppose if you wear a pair of jeans like this and you spill something on yourself, you have got to be careful. Or if you go out and the weather is misty or something, you certainly don't want to wear a white top or something like that with them. I guess some of that indigo dye could definitely bleed onto what else you are wearing. It makes you wonder how a garment that is so expensive has that sort of problem. But, at any rate, it's a great looking pair of pants. You can see that the fabric is responding very well to the steamer. Those wrinkles are falling right out. And it looks like here on the fly, that's a wrinkle that isn't going to come out; that's just a bit of extra fabric in there. So, let's see, we are at the knee here; give this fold a little extra attention. A lot of people keep their jeans folded in a drawer. That's fine, but when you take them out, you will need to steam them or iron them to make them look their best. I've got these on a pants hanger. There are lots of different kinds of pants hangers. There's wooden pants hangers; there's these plastic ones. Some people actually hang their pants upside down so that the bottom of the legs would be up here and the top of the pants would be down there. There's all kinds of different ways of hanging pants. "