How to Iron a T-Shirt With Decal

Series Summary

In this series of free video clips you'll learn all the tricks to ironing your clothes. Expert Joyce Danielson shows you step by step how to iron all of the various parts of a dress shirt, including the collar, sleeves and the tricky placket of buttons that run down the front. She also demonstrates how to iron a t-shirt with a decal on the front, how to iron pants and how to iron silk boxers. After watching these free videos you won't need to take your clothes to the dry cleaners; you'll have your wardrobe looking pressed and neat without even leaving your home.

Video Transcript

"Hi! I'm Joyce Danielson for Expert Village. I'm starting with the T-shirt because it has a decal on it and these unfortunately get melted a lot when people buy them and they don't know how to iron them. You are supposed to iron them inside out. So when you put that hot iron on that decal, it doesn't melt. So you turn it over, you turn it inside out, you are going to straighten all the seams and this is only if you have a fanatic husband like mine. He likes all of his T-shirts iron. A lot of guys don't but he does. We are going to turn the iron on low and wait for it to heat up a little bit and then you just start ironing. I'm not pressing, I'm ironing. Pressing is when you apply pressure and hold it for a few seconds. Ironing is when you move the iron back and forth. So there is a confusion. Slowly confusion on that sometimes. Just work it back and forth and get a nice smooth press or iron and you just keep moving it up, little bit at a time. Even though this is cotton mix, it still needs to be on the inside out. "