When ironing tablecloths, bed linens and other flat things, you can watch the show, reflect on life, you just need to set the temperature for it, press the humidifier and start ironing.
But here are the men's shirts, this is another matter, and how my mother-in-law said that her husband's shirts are your face. And then you realize that they do not need wrinkles. In addition, it is also an educational moment, it's nice to show my husband, several ironed men's shirts, as an example of his disorder and organization. And if the shirts of her husband are ironed in the last turn, then there will definitely be no time left for themselves.
On the Internet you can find tips that are written, probably, by professionals in ironing, and their goal is to intimidate the complexity of the process of novice housewives and promote their merits. But in the old shabby book Housekeeping, the release of the 50's, I found how to properly iron men's shirts and now for 20 years, I follow these tips, and my husband is always satisfied with the quality of ironing.
We will not talk about the need to use a good steam iron, so that there are no traces of burnt clothes on it, a good ironing board, we give advice to women.
Pat the shirt.
1. To iron from the collar .
First, the wrong side and start from the corners. We use steam, our goal is to "pripasadit" a little cloth, it will be easier on the face side to avoid folds. Do not pay attention to the folds on the wrong side, do not complicate your life. Then iron on the front side of the collar, move the iron from the corners, the outer edge to the counter. Just do not bend the collar of the shirt on the counter, and smooth the fold, we will get a terrible result, and no one tie it will not fix it.
2. The sleeves of the shirt.
The sleeve is ironed with the cuff. Just like the collar of his ironed from the wrong side, to "plant" the fabric, so as not to appear wrinkles on the front side. If the sleeve is decorated with a slit bar, iron the bar from the wrong side, with the same purpose. Then quickly and easily stroked on the front side of the shirt. On the Internet, you can read that "not comme il faut", so that there is an arrow from ironing on the sleeve. This is your business, you can use a special attachment for the sleeve to stroke the middle. But if your husband is not a snob, do not complicate your life, if you can afford the means you can hire a special ironer.
Then put the sleeve exactly on the seam. Let's see that if there is an arrow already, then the second one should be exactly on it, otherwise it will turn out inaccurately. Iron with iron from shoulder to cuff, from arrow to seam. First, iron the front half, then turn it over, smooth and iron the back half of the sleeve. Repeat the same steps with the other sleeve of the shirt.
3. A shelf with buttons .
We decompose the shirt on the narrow part of the board with the upper part, stroke the coquette and up. We move the iron and iron the other half of the shelf. And we stroke from the edge where the buttons are, and move to the side seam.
4. Backrest.
We stroke the back from the right side seam of the shirt to the left side seam, and as we reach the result, turn.
Order such, first side seam, at the top along the seam of the sleeve, unfold, stroke the coquette, move, stroke the middle. Then unfold - the left side of the coquette, move to the seam of the left sleeve, and down, to the side seam of the shirt.
5. The left shelf of the shirt .
We stroke the seam from the seam to the edge, on which the loops are, unfold only once, to iron around the collar and iron the coquette. The algorithm is pretty simple - start with small details, from the wrong side, stroke the cuffs and collar. Then the sleeves, if we iron them at the end, we will hesitate to iron the man's shirt. Now we stroke the shirt itself, move around in circles, start from the buttons, and move to the opposite edge to the eyelets. After we iron out, we hang the shirt on the hangers, cool down. It will be quick and easy. And with experience you can in the process of ironing and thinking about life and watch the show.
Now we know how you can iron a man's shirt and how to do it by all the rules.