How to Steam a Wool Shirt

Video Transcript

"Hello. I'm Donna Beth Joy Shapiro on behalf of ExpertVillage.com, and today I'm going to show you how to iron a dress. I've never worn it. I just took it out. I think it would be nice to wear it. You would not iron this, but you definitely could steam it. I would not put the steamer too close to this. Maybe from back here. It won't take much for the wool fibers in this skirt to relax. Another reason I pulled this out of my closet is because there is a really stubborn wrinkle on the back that I want to show you; right there. So, I'm just going to put a little bit of steam; not too close. It might take a minute or two, but that wrinkle is definitely going to fall out. You know what, in order to facilitate getting that nasty wrinkle out, I've just stuck my hand under here between the wool skirt and the satin lining. So I'm better able to direct the steam on the garment. I will say that if this was my favorite skirt, I wouldn't do this. You can see that the fabric changes colors slightly with the water. It dries almost as fast, but I wouldn't do this if this was my favorite garment. But this is just a regular, serviceable, new (I might add; I did pay real money for this), and it wasn't even on sale. I just thought it was a really good looking skirt; really different. It has a bit of a vintage flair to it. So, for just an investment of five minutes of steam, we've got it back looking the way it did when I brought it home. So, it looks like it's ready to put on. I don't think that it would have looked a whole lot different had I taken it to the dry cleaner. Thanks for watching."