Jeans are firmly established in our lives and today it seems difficult to do without them. In this dress they go for a walk and work, travel and rest. The popularity of these trousers is fully justified. Jeans make a variety of creating their image, they like children and adults, men and women. These pants are always in line with fashion trends. With proper care, they can last for quite some time.
Do I need to iron jeans?
For some reason, many believe that jeans can never be ironed. And they wear them every day. But if you always want to look good, ironing should be constant. Some people think that after washing it is enough to shake wet pants so that they take on a pompous look. In fact, it is useless, such a dense material like jeans, even after shaking, will not be able to smooth out well. Inevitably folds form, and folds lead to the fact that the threads begin to wear out very much in the places of the bends, and the fabric quickly fade.
Therefore, jeans after washing should always be ironed. Subsequently periodically ironing to maintain a neat appearance.
Ironing technique
In order not to form irregularities, It is necessary to iron jeans with a warm iron, observing certain rules.
- You can iron only wet pants. If the material is very dry, it should be moistened with an atomizer. Liquid is evenly sprayed over the surface of the pants, especially on too crumpled or hard places.
- In the absence of a spray gun, you can iron jeans through gauze. It needs to be wetted, spread on the surface of the material, then hold the iron. To cope with small creases will help mode "Steam".
- In order not to injure the facial fibers, ironing should take place on the wrong side. If you start to iron the front side, the fabric will begin to shine and shine.
- Before ironing pants need to turn out. It is necessary to begin to iron trousers from seams, having established a low temperature condition. The stitches are usually made of caprone. At high temperatures, kapron can simply melt.
- Normal temperature for ironing denim is in the range of 140-190 degrees. Of great importance is the thickness of the material, its density.
- When the seams on each side are well-ironed, the pants should be straightened and ironed all the remaining sections of fabric.
- Sometimes a stencil may remain in the pocket area due to the high density of the fabric. To avoid this, you need to put in your pocket, for example, a handkerchief. Usually such an action gives the result - after ironing, there are no traces in the pocket area.
- They never make arrows on jeans. They should only be on cloth trousers. Arrows made on jeans are considered an expression of bad taste and disregard for clothing.
- Pants after ironing should dry out a bit. They are hung on a rope, laid out on any flat surface.
Some people, when they are in a hurry, put on their not fully dried pants. In cases with jeans, this is not necessary. The result may be a loss of form. Ugly bulges appear on such knee-length trousers.
How to properly pat "ripped" jeans
“Ripped” jeans are more than one season in youth fashion. Sometimes the number of holes is even difficult to count.
The most fashionable jeans are considered to have open knees, the material is torn at the hips.
To keep this design stylish, “torn” jeans also require proper ironing.
For washing such things is prohibited to use the washing machine. She can turn these pants into a heavily torn rag. Suitable for this hand wash only. If there is an urgent need, as well as a small amount of time, before sending the “rag” to the washer, jeans are wrapped in a bag of thin fabric.
If washing will be done manually, pants must be pre-boiled. Then they are smoothed after boiling, straighten, hang up to dry. "Ripped" jeans require a delicate approach, especially when ironing. Carefully ironed seams, all flat areas. Moreover, the operation must necessarily be performed with the imposition of wet gauze. To prevent the appearance of prints on the back of the holes made in the front, ironing should be done using an ironing board.
Each leg is put on the reclining part, which is specially designed for good ironing.
Masters do not recommend ironing fibers of "torn" pants. If they have acquired a shapeless appearance, you need to sprinkle them a little with water, smooth them well, give them a different position and leave to dry.
Ironing jeans with decorations
Jeans have always been considered working clothes. Time passed, everything changed. To make women's jeans more comfortable and more "ladies" or children, they began to decorate:
- rhinestones;
- beads;
- embroidery;
- sparkles.
Naturally, to stroke such pants is much more difficult than ordinary jeans. If they have a lot of decorative elements, you can do without ironing. To do this, use a special steam generator. He is able to give the material its original appearance.
Special care is required to iron the decals found on children's clothes. It is strictly forbidden to heat them, as they will deteriorate. Enough after washing them gently straighten.
How to reduce the number of sleeves
According to the recommendations of the manufacturers of fashionable denim clothes, the pants do not need to be ironed often with an iron. This can cause wrinkles, which will look very ugly.
After washing to get rid of water, you just need to hang them on a rope and wait until it completely drains. To reduce the number of sleeves of a single product, several process steps are required.
- First, zips, buttons and buttons are fastened on the pants. Then they are turned over, and then sent to the washing machine. Wash only jeans. Other things must be missing.
- The machine is set to delicate mode. You can wash these jeans by hand. To do this, you need laundry soap and laundry detergent, in which there are no bleaching components.
- In the last century, fans managed to wash their jeans without removing them. Dandies believed that as a result of such a "wash" pants can not sit down.
- Washed jeans must be carefully compressed. Twisting them like a regular doormat is strictly prohibited. It is enough to hang up your pants on a rope in the bathroom and the water will drain away. You just need to wait a bit.
- Before sending jeans to dry, you need to pull them in length, as well as in width. The fact is that after washing this material sits down a bit.
- Drying should take place on the street or in a ventilated area. Moreover, jeans should be in a strictly horizontal position. To do this, pants gently laid out on any flat surface.
- Of course, compliance with the above rules will help to obtain a positive effect. If you correctly iron denim clothing, its life is increased significantly.
Practical experience has shown that denim clothing can not be dry cleaned.
During the manufacture of trousers material undergoes digestion. This process involves several special chemicals.In the process of dry cleaning products begins a reaction, the result that no one can predict, but the beautiful appearance will be spoiled, that's for sure.
From the above, we can conclude that ironing is possible, but you must follow all the rules.
See a master video on ironing jeans in the next video.