How to Begin Ironing Blue Jeans

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 pants without pleats.

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Marti. On behalf of expertvillage.com, I'm going to share with you today how to press a pair of pants. We are going to be pressing a pair of blue jeans using starch. Back in the day when grandma use to iron, work was a little heavier. This is actually a twenty pound iron that women use to use to iron clothing or sheets or linens. Today fortunately life has gotten a lot lighter. We have high tech irons steam, pointed nose tips, lots of steam ducts and controls that will work with any fabric you can think of. Some people think there is nothing better than a nice pair of blue jeans that are starched and prepped. While you can take them to the dry cleaners, you can also accomplish the same thing at home. Before you begin though we need to turn your pants inside out, these are blue jeans they are 100% cotton and I'll be using a high heat with steam to iron them."