How do I Iron a shirt?

[Blindman]

Its friday night not going anywhere thought I learn a valuable trade. Anyone have any tips.

I seached google there wasnt any pic with the instructions. Anyone got a link with step by step of how to iron a shirt?

 

[conjur]

You're fvcking kidding, right?

 

[isekii]

Originally posted by: conjur
You're fvcking kidding, right?

 

[Babbles]

What they said.

 

[Zim Hosein]

Originally posted by: Blindman
Its friday night not going anywhere thought I learn a valuable trade. Anyone have any tips.

I seached google there wasnt any pic with the instructions. Anyone got a link with step by step of how to iron a shirt?

Blindman, it depends on the "type" of shirt you plan to iron, ex. 100% cotton, 50/50 and so forth.

Give us more info Blindman

 

[Blindman]

No i am not kidding. I busted out the iron and took out an old shirt and started to iron away at no avail.

I mean guess Linen is as hard as them come by. 60 linen 40 cotton.

There is this suit I want to hirn to get the wrinckle out of it so I thought i pratice on shirts first.

Ah maybe i should just take it and get it pressed.

hum . . . any suggestions?

 

[Ness]

it's about as simple as it looks, really.

Two important things to remember is to always set the iron on its backend, so the metal press side isn't on the board or shirt if you aren't going to be using it for a moment, and to always make sure it has water in it and that you keep it moving, even if it's pretty slowly.

Nothing sucks more than having an iron shaped hole in one of your favorite shirts. Never trust your brother to do the ironing :-\


Edit: Oh, a suit? I's probably take that to a dry cleaner. Sometimes those are made of more complex fabrics that are more delicate that your average cotton button-up.

If nothing seems to be happening, then you need to make sure the iron is hot and that it has plenty of water in it. It's the steam that usually does the work. There should be a little button to shoot a little bit of water down as your are ironing, just hit that a little bit.
Move it slowly back and forth over a large area of the shirt, if you rush it, it won't get time to heat up, but if you go too slow you will fry your shirt.

 

[conjur]

Well...get an iron with a good non-stick coating that you can put distilled water in for steam and that helps remove wrinkles.

For a suit, I'd get it pressed.

 

[Blindman]

Always keep it moving?
What do u mean by backend?

 

[isekii]

Originally posted by: Blindman
No i am not kidding. I busted out the iron and took out an old shirt and started to iron away at no avail.

I mean guess Linen is as hard as them come by. 60 linen 40 cotton.

There is this suit I want to hirn to get the wrinckle out of it so I thought i pratice on shirts first.

Ah maybe i should just take it and get it pressed.

hum . . . any suggestions?

Linen is a pain in the ass to iron.
I dont even usually bother. Fabric Softener during wash adn then once it comes out of the dryer i just hang it.

 

[Yossarian]

there used to be a good website that explained how to do everyday things like that but they turned into some kind of evil business consulting thing I demand free content!

 

[Blindman]

Guess i started on the hardest fabric. Shoot this is worse the overclocking a PC. LOL.

Which fabric should I pratice on??

 

[DrPizza]

How to iron in 3 easy steps:

1. Get married
2. Go on honeymoon
3. say "iron this shirt, woman."

 

[Ness]

If you are looking at the iron from the top, then the end opposite of the point is the back... make sure that the metal bottom is sitting vertical, so it's not touching anything when it is just sitting there, or else it will burn.


here are a few links I found:

http://www.askmen.com/fashion/how_to/21_how_to.html
http://okok.essortment.com/howtoironash_myz.htm
http://bluerosedesign.com/howto/howtoindex2.html


The last one has some good pictures, and a weird looking old guy.

 

[Blindman]

LOL that is what anandtech is for I guess.

 

[Zim Hosein]

Originally posted by: DrPizza
How to iron in 3 easy steps:

1. Get married
2. Go on honeymoon
3. say "iron this shirt, woman."

Hehe

Cheers DrPizza :beer:

 

[Blindman]

The iron by grandma is dope = ) thanks ness1469.

LOL perhaps u skipped my YAGT thread a month back.

No gf else I'll probbly ask her to teach me instead.

 

[djheater]

Originally posted by: isekii

Originally posted by: conjur
You're fvcking kidding, right?

 

[Blindman]

no i am not kidding. Most of my shirt are pretty neat without press. I just wanted to take the time to pick up the skill thats all. Heck I want to iron my own shirts.

 

[shimsham]

Originally posted by: DrPizza
How to iron in 3 easy steps:

1. Get married
2. Go on honeymoon
3. say "iron this shirt, woman."

amen

 

[Radiohead]

Originally posted by: DrPizza
How to iron in 3 easy steps:

1. Get married
2. Go on honeymoon
3. say "iron this shirt, woman."

4 - call mother

 

[pyonir]

dude! Make sure you take the shirt off before you try and iron it!!!

 

[melly]

ironing linen can make a person drink.

it's beautiful material but, dang.

 

[Apathetic]

Originally posted by: Blindman
No i am not kidding. I busted out the iron and took out an old shirt and started to iron away at no avail.

I mean guess Linen is as hard as them come by. 60 linen 40 cotton.

There is this suit I want to hirn to get the wrinckle out of it so I thought i pratice on shirts first.

Ah maybe i should just take it and get it pressed.

hum . . . any suggestions?

Umm, an iron requires STEAM to work. You did put some water in it, right? By the way, you really want to use distilled water and not tap water - especially if your water is hard (all the minerals stay behind and gunk up the steam ports).

Dave

 

[xSauronx]

Originally posted by: conjur
Well...get an iron with a good non-stick coating that you can put distilled water in for steam and that helps remove wrinkles.

For a suit, I'd get it pressed.

get it pressed
especially linen stuff. i work at a DC plant and linen is the hardest thing to press, wrinkles terribly. if you _must_do it at home it will help to mist some water on it before ironing it to soften the wrinkles.

get the suit pressed. a nice sharp crease and rolled lapels and people will think you made it out of the house for a change