How to starch dress and podsubnik at home?

Starch has long been used to give clothes a fresh, ceremonial look. Our grandmothers and great-grandmothers knew how to starch the dress. It would seem that the distant past. .. However, in our days, starch has found its application.

Any starched product will look "as if with a needle" and shine with freshness. The fact is that a thin, breathable film forms on the fabric, protecting it from contamination. During washing, it is easily washed off, and dirt goes away with it.

Why should I starch clothes?

• The dress will get a clearer three-dimensional shape, which will hold until the next wash.
• The impression of freshness and presentability will last longer.
• The product will be less scraped.
• Remains the correct, unshurned outlines of the collar and cuffs due to their rigidity.

Starched knitted dress will look especially impressive. It is less stretched, keeps the shape, the pattern becomes more pronounced, the threads of the knitted fabric lie evenly. And even the color of the thing seems to become purer and brighter.

How to prepare a starch paste?

At home, for this purpose, use the usual potato starch, which is always present in the arsenal of any hostess.

Important!

If you contact a dry cleaner, your product will starch with chemical additives.

There are three degrees of stiffness when preparing paste: soft, medium and strong.

• For a soft 1 liter of water, put 1 teaspoon of starch - in order to starch a dress from a thin fabric, for example from cambric or chiffon.
• For an average 1 liter of water dilute 1 tablespoon of starch - for knitted dresses or sewn from linen or cotton.
• For a strong - 2 tablespoons - is prepared for the starching of individual parts of the outfit: flounces, collar, cuffs.

In starch, first poured cold water, thoroughly rub the formed lumps, achieving uniformity and consistency, comparable to thick sour cream. And only then a thin trickle pour boiling water, bringing the volume to 1 liter. Before you put the dress in a liquid paste, the composition should be cooled.

What to do with the dress?

To be able to starch the dress, it must be completely saturated with starch within 30-40 minutes. During this time, it will not hurt to turn it over several times. Then remove from the liquid, squeeze out excess paste and hang the thing on the hanger. Dry clothes should be at room temperature, away from heating batteries, in any case not including the electric dryer and other heating appliances.
Tips

1. To get an elegant shine, add a little salt to the diluted starch.
2. You can enhance the shine if you drip a little melted stearin into the paste.
3. Sometimes you can see recommendations to dry the starched product in the cold. This is possible, but it is unlikely that this method will give the product additional rigidity.

It is best to slightly moisten the starched dress slightly moist, and you can gently smooth out all the fine details, creases, avoiding creases and retaining the shape. If the dress is still dry, steam it with an iron is not necessary, it is better to sprinkle with water or iron through a damp thin cloth. If the iron sticks to the fabric, add a few drops of turpentine to the diluted starch.

Wedding dress: to starch or not?

Fully starch wedding dress at home, maybe, and there is no need. But the podsjubniki soak up the paste, so that the skirt was lush, it is necessary. If there are several lower skirts, you can adjust the volume by not processing all the pods.

Here's how to starch the petticoat: the lower skirt is smeared with starch solution,( make it harder) and ironed with iron, without waiting until it finally dries.

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There is a simple rule: you can starch - and sometimes you need - everything, except underwear and black products. Otherwise, the laundry will lose moisture permeability, and the black thing will be covered with whitish divorce.

Make the children's dress more elegant

With the festive children's dress they do the same as with the wedding dress. That is, they starch the pods and then iron them. These dresses are usually decorated with small details: ruffles, flounces, frills, - which after washing look drooped and crumpled. They also need to starch and iron a little ironing.

Something about Starch Technique

By the way, to process individual parts of the dress, whether it's baby or adult, it's convenient to apply a starch spray sold in branded household chemical shops. Spray spray on the collar, cuffs or flounces, which immediately have to be ironed.

The knitted dress is starched according to the general rules, but there are also special features. You can not hang it to dry it, of course. The dress is dried in a horizontal position laid on the towel. If the lace is tied on the hem, they need to be straightened and fixed in the desired shape by tailor's pins.