How to iron a shirt with a long sleeve?

Shirt is a necessary thing in every wardrobe in both men's and women's. Careful, well-ironed, it leaves a very good opinion of its owner. To make this wardrobe work for you, you need to know how to iron a shirt with a long sleeve, because it's almost an art. In this article, you will learn all the intricacies of ironing this thing, and you will always amaze everyone with your appearance and accuracy.

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How to iron the shirt

Before you start ironing, you need to properly prepare for this process. The following few tips will help you to ease the process and save time:

1. After washing, dry the shirts on the shoulders in a straightened form. This will help you avoid wrinkles and wrinkles on the fabric.
2. Do not let your shirt dry completely, it needs to be ironed. If it has completely dried, dampen it from the spray gun and put it in a plastic bag. This method will help achieve uniform moistening.
3. How to iron men's shirts of dark colors? The correct answer to this question is from the wrong side. If ironing occurs from the front side, the fabric will quickly fade and start to shine. Brilliant materials also apply to this rule.
4. To iron a shirt it is necessary on a principle "from smaller to greater", at first, iron the smallest details, then the sleeves and shelves, and at the very end the back. This order will help to achieve the best result.
5. Each type of fabric requires its own temperature regime. If you pick it wrong, you can either burn the shirt, or simply not get any result.

Preparing the

Before starting this process, you need to prepare everything you need so that you do not get distracted while you work. We will need:

1. Iron. It is highly desirable to have an anti-stick coating on it, an atomizer and a steaming function.
2. Surface for ironing. Ideal option would be an ironing board, but if it is not - choose a place with a perfectly flat surface, put a dense cloth on it and cover with a cotton sheet.
3. If there is no atomizer in the iron, take a conventional spray with water.
4. Find a piece of cotton white or light fabric, through which, if necessary, you can pat the shirt.

Choose the mode

As already mentioned above, for different types of fabric you need your own temperature regime. First, pay attention to the label. It usually shows everything. If not, consider the following recommendations:

1. To iron a shirt, the fabric of which includes polyester, stands at a temperature of up to 110 degrees. In this case, switch the steam mode to minimum. Such material does not like much moisture.
2. Things from viscose iron at a temperature of up to 120 degrees. They render the steam treatment, but it is better not to moisten them from the atomizer, since stains from water may remain.
3. Cotton is ironed at a temperature of 150 degrees and using a large amount of steam. The addition of flax to cotton raises the temperature of ironing to 170-180 degrees.
4. The hardest material is pure linen. To iron a shirt made of flax is at maximum temperatures and with a lot of steam.
5. The shirt, in the fabric of which the wool enters, iron from the wrong side, through the cheesecloth, so as not to leave stains from the hot iron.
6. Shirts of silk are ironed dry, otherwise - they will remain stained. And also for such things the minimum temperatures are used. It is best to iron the silk shirt from the wrong side through a slightly damp cotton white cloth.
7. Fabrics with the effect of compression are ironed at a temperature of 110 degrees without steam.

Important! If the composition of your shirt is unknown, start with minimum temperatures without steam and gradually increase it. If the iron stops sliding on the fabric and begins to stick immediately stop ironing and lower the temperature.

Now on sale there were shirts which should not be ironed. The secret is that after washing such things are not wrung out, but immediately hung on the hanger and dried in this form. During drying the fabric itself is straightened, and you save your time. If there is no desire each time to deal with the ironing procedure for you, consider this very convenient option when buying items for your wardrobe.

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Stages of ironing

It has already been noticed that in order to iron a shirt with a long sleeve, ironing should begin with small details. Let's consider in more detail the order of actions.

Smoothing collar

It is not difficult to stroke the collar of a shirt properly if you act like this:

1. If there are stones in the collar, we must remove them before ironing.
2. Begin the process from the wrong side, the iron is guided from the edge to the center - this will help to avoid smoothing the folds in the corners.
3. The same procedure is repeated on the front side.
4. To iron a collar on a fold is not recommended, as it will get the wrong form and it will look awful.

Cuffs

Start stroking the sleeves of the shirt you need with cuffs. For this:

1. As in the case with the collar, the first side is ironed first, then the front one.
2. Double cuffs are ironed slightly differently: unfold the cuff and iron along the entire length, then, after giving the desired shape and width, smooth over the bend.

Sleeves

If you revise the ways of ironing sleeves on the Internet, then there are 2 ways: on a special nozzle and on the edge of the board. Both methods pursue one goal, pat their sleeves without arrows. To iron the sleeves of the shirt, it is necessary in the following sequence:

1. Put the sleeve folded on the seam in half on a flat surface.
2. The sleeves of the shirt should be ironed from the shoulder to the cuffs. Approaching the iron close to the edge is undesirable - this will help avoid the shooter.
3. When the sleeve is ironed, it should be turned so that the seam is in the middle from the bottom.
4. Mold out the rest.
5. The collar zone should be ironed by placing the shirt with the shoulder on the edge of the board.
6. Repeat with the second sleeve.

Important! If you notice that the already straightened part has been wrinkled, correct this misunderstanding by wetting it a little with water and ironing there again.

Front of the shirt

The front of the car starts to be ironed from the shelf on which the buttons are located. Operate in this order:

1. Begin with the coquette of the shelf and go to the top.
2. Next iron the rest, gently passing the nose of the iron between the buttons, so as not to melt them.
3. We repeat the same actions for the second shelf, but it will be easier to iron, because of the lack of buttons.

Backrest

The easiest ironing element for the shirt is the backrest. There are no buttons or folds. Just follow the steps below.

1. To begin to straighten a back it is necessary from a lateral seam, accurately bypassing a sleeve.
2. Expand the product and walk the iron on the center and the coquette.
3. Re-unfold, finish stroking the coquette and move along the back to the second side seam.

Important! Carefully otutyuzhte side seams and do not make a coquette shooter.

Some tips about women's shirts

Usually women's shirts have many finishing elements, which are very difficult to iron. In order to pat the female shirt, do the following:

1. Stroke the collar of the shirt. If it is decorated, try to make it a spout of iron.
2. The sleeves and back should be ironed as described above - on the wrong side.
3. After that, iron the shelves. Start with the smallest details. Gently walk on the entire shelf, see if there are no random cracks and arrows.

Otherwise, ironing a woman's shirt is the same as for a man's shirt.

Important! To iron a shirt with a short sleeve is necessary on the same principle as the product with a long sleeve, but the process is simplified by the fact that it is not necessary to so carefully smooth the sleeve and cuffs.

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Several unusual ways of ironing

Sometimes there are times when you need to iron a shirt without ironing. There are several ways for this.

Method 1

Some tissues are fragile. This allows you to not squeeze them after washing, but simply hang them on your hangers, straightening the product. After drying, it does not require ironing.

This option is one way to quickly iron the shirt.

Method 2

You can iron the shirt in another way - by hanging it in the shower with hot water turned on. Steam from the water will smooth out your thing and it will not require ironing. After a shower, such a product will need to dry on the same shoulders.

Method 3

1. Mix the solution from the conditioner for linen, table vinegar and clean water in a ratio of 1 to 1.
2. Pour this solution into a spray gun and sprinkle the shirt hanging on the shoulders.
3. Allow things to dry out.
4. When the solution is completely dry, the product will be perfectly evenly beautiful.

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We fold the shirt so that it does not wrinkle

The ironed shirts are easiest to keep in the closet on the hanger. Also, if necessary, it can be folded. This is done like this:

1. We fasten the buttons on the product.
2. Turn the backrest up.
3. We fold the sleeves.
4. Folds on the sides.
5. Straighten and carefully fold the shirt in half.

Important! So that the collar is not wrinkled, put a thin strip of cardboard into it. In the closet, fold the shirts one by one, with collars in different directions. In the same way they fit into the suitcase.

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Useful advices:

1. For light fabric, check the cleanliness of the steam so as not to leave stains on the product.
2. Wrap the rolling pin or bottle in a terry towel - this device will help you quickly and wrinkle the sleeves.
3. Before proceeding to the next item of the product, allow the previous one to cool slightly. This reduces the likelihood that the ironed cloth will crumble again.
4. Before placing the product in the cabinet, after ironing, always let it cool on the hanger.

Proceeding from the above, it is not difficult to properly iron the shirt, it is enough to adhere to a certain algorithm. But the impression that you or your family will leave when you come to work or a party in such clothes will definitely be worth the effort and time spent.