How to Iron a Skirt by Learning the Material

Series Summary

Since the dawn of time, men and women alike have preferred straight clothing over wrinkled clothing. Cave drawings uncovered in the Mesopotamian Desert wilderness show women heating rocks and rubbing them on fur clothing. Wrinkled clothing was actually an offense punishable by death in Hammurabi's Code. A recent archaeological discovery has uncovered the oldest laundromat in recorded history while excavating the ancient city of Ur. Cleverly named Laund-UR-mat, this laundromat, actually started by Abraham's youngest brother Ephraham, is historical proof that even thousands and thousands of years ago, human beings found ironing clothes inconvenient and tedious and that people would rather outsource ironing than take the time to do it at home. Fortunately, there is help for those of us that burn holes through shirts and ruin blouses. The experts at Expert Village have made an easy to follow and completely free video series to make ironing at home an option again.

In this free video series, watch as professional homemaker Marti Swanson teaches how to iron a skirt.

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Marti. I'm coming to you on behalf of expertvillage.com. Today I'm going to show you how to iron a skirt. The skirt that I have chosen today is a linen skirt which is a plant fiber. It requires a high heat but I also choose the skirt because it has some other details that we'll be addressing. First thing you want to do with any garment is turn it inside out because you want it to address the construction of your garment. That is what allows your skirt, pants, jacket to hang up appropriately. The first thing we are going to do is press our waist band pull your skirt onto your board have your iron hot with steam preferably. We are just going to go around your skirt and press down the waist band only."