How To Iron Shirts The Quick & Easy Way - Fort Belvedere

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If you want to learn how to iron shirts, check out our step by step guide, here: https://gentl.mn/2HpMeRh First of all, lay out all your equipment. The minimum, you need the ironing board. Two, make sure everything is clean. Look at the shirts to see if there any recent stains because if you iron them now, the heat will set in the stain and it will be much harder to remove it than if you take action right away. Three, add water. You definitely want a steam iron and that requires water. I suggest you go with distilled water because it is not hard water but soft water, meaning it has fewer minerals such as calcium and magnesium. Five, start with pressing the cuffs and the sleeves. No matter if it’s a barrel cuff or a French cuff. I start ironing on the inside of the cuff. Once that's done, I look at the outside, if there's still some wrinkles, I iron again. Always make sure to iron from the outside of the cuff in, otherwise, you'll get little wrinkles by the stitching especially on shirts with a sewn interlining. It can be quite frustrating but practice pays off. Once I am done with the cuff, it's time to iron the sleeve. If you just have a regular ironing board, I suggest to lay down the sleeve flat because, at this stage, you're ironing two layers at the same time. If you don't do it right, you get wrinkles and it will take you much longer. It really pays to have a system here, I always start in a corner of the armpit and iron the middle parts and not the top edge because that will leave the crease. I also always start on the backside and once I'm done, I flip it over to the front side and repeat the motion. Try to iron in the middle part and when you're done, you can add a crease on top. If you like a strong crease, you can now add the clapper. Six, press the collar and the yoke. First of all, you flip up your collar and you remove any collar stays if that's possible. If they're sewn in, just leave them in there. Now iron from one side to the middle, I stop and go to the other side, and iron again to the middle. Avoid ironing from the inside out or in one motion because it will create wrinkles. Because the collar has so many layers, you may have to go over it once more simply to get the right result. Once we're done with the underside of the collar, flap it open so you're now ironing the outside of the collar. Again outside to the middle from one side, and outside to the middle from the other side. Once you are done with the collar and the yoke, it's time to finish the body. Align the buttons on the board and iron it from the back. That way I can go all the way one nice clean motion. Make sure there are no wrinkles. Flip the shirt so the buttons face up. If you have a solids shirt you can quickly go into the areas in between the buttons. If you have a striped shirt I suggest to simply tap down your iron lift it up move to the next section tap down again and so forth. Since the front of your shirt is the most visible part, you'll make sure it looks extra clean and neat. Make sure the area around the armhole is neat as well as the area on top next to the collar. If you happen to iron a crease flatten it out spray some water on it either with the iron or with your spray bottle and go over it again. In case your shirt has a pocket, that can be tricky to iron. Make sure you pull it flat iron it separately in short strokes. Once the button front of the shirt is done I move on to the back. It's the same procedure again. I start on one side and pull it flat so I can then start to iron. If the shirt has pleats in the back, align the pleat and iron over it so it looks neat exactly what you want. If you have a handmade shirt especially Italian ones, chances are it has grinze along the seam of the yoke and the back. To get them to look right use the iron in short strokes pointing towards the yoke seam and you want that wavy effect. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Want to stay updated? Sign up here for free: https://gentl.mn/2HmG0BN Want to see more videos? Subscribe to our channel! https://www.youtube.com/user/thegentlemansgazette --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gentleman's Gazette https://www.gentlemansgazette.com/ SHOP: https://gentl.mn/2DjP3B2 https://www.facebook.com/gentlemansgazette FREE EBOOK: https://gentl.mn/2HmG0BN