How to iron a coat at home?

The coat is perhaps one of the most stylish and popular options for outerwear. Such a thing decorates the wardrobe of every modern fashionable woman. These products are made of rather dense, warm materials, such as suede, wool, cashmere, drape. Our article is devoted to the subtleties of ironing and steaming coats made of different materials.

Before you start ironing a coat made from 100% wool, you should familiarize yourself with the product care instructions. Such information can be found on the label. The process of ironing consists of several stages.

• On the iron, the first heating level is selected.
• Before processing the coat with an iron, you need to cover the product with gauze, you can now iron it without fear for wool, it will not suffer. The temperature regime can be increased only if the folds are not smoothed.
• The outer part is ironed only through wet gauze, and the wrong side can be ironed without it, directly.

• All crumpled areas before ironing straighten hands.
• To iron the sleeves, it is better to use a special stand, which practically every model of the ironing board has.
• After that, you can proceed to ironing the coat from the back, collar and lapels. When smoothing the hanger for convenience, enclose a small hard pillow. English collar must be ironed again, to get to fix its position.
• At the end, they seam the seams, this should be done with the tip of the iron.

If you decide to iron the coat after washing, know: in order not to spoil the thing, you need to iron only completely dried clothes. In addition to ironing, crumpled folds on the coat can be removed with a steamer or use an iron with this function.

By the way, it is better not to iron a wool coat, namely, to steam, so as not to set fire to natural fibers. To spoil the appearance of the coat can appear tanning and glossy pieces after ironing. In no case can not iron dirty coat. Particles of dirt after treatment are strongly eaten, it will be difficult to fix it.

Now we will consider two ways that will help to bring a proper coat of wool without the use of special tools.

1. A coat is laid out on the surface of the table, folds are folded with folds, and too crumpled areas are covered with a damp cloth, for example, a terry cloth. So the product should lie 8 hours. Then you can hang it on a coat hanger.
2. In the bathroom include hot water, tightly close the door, artificially creating the effect of the steam room. When the steam completely fills the room, you can hang a coat. This should be done over hot water, keeping a gap of at least 25 cm. The product is left in this position for up to 4 hours (folds can be smoothed out earlier). After obtaining the desired result, the coat can be moved to the living room and allowed to dry.

Cashmere products require special care. The methods of smoothing a woolen coat described above, of course, can also be used, and yet you need to iron cashmere things with particular care. The material is quite capricious, therefore, requires careful maintenance.

There are some models of coats that can not be ironed at all, only steaming will help here. It is best to steam coat when it hangs on a hanger. The temperature on the steamer or iron is set to the minimum.

Polyester items do not tolerate exposure to high temperatures. At the same time, a coat made of polyester is considered the most wear-resistant, it practically does not wrinkle. Folds may form after improper drying. If this happens, do not worry, the product can always be smoothed out by stripping or regular ironing.

After ironing, the clothes should hang for several hours at room temperature. Putting the coat right in the closet is not necessary. To select the optimal temperature parameter for smoothing a crumpled coat, before processing the base material, you need to walk an iron on a separate shred, which is on the lining.

Steam or iron the product from the combined material will turn out in several stages. First, iron the main canvas, then move on to the rest of the details: sleeves, collar, patch pockets and other decorative elements. The lining of the coat is ironed last.

A thin coat without filler can be simply ironed from the inside. Clothes with a thick layer of insulation should be ironed according to certain rules.

• First you need to completely turn the thing inside out and put it on the ironing board.
• Strongly wrinkled areas are covered with wet gauze before ironing. Instead, you can use any thin cotton fabric.
• Ironed clothes are put on special hangers.

To return the lapels or the collar, which frown on the seams, the original look, you need to close the problem area with a damp cloth, slightly pull the corner of the lapel or collar with your hand and straighten the seam with the iron tip. Next, the item must be ironed again. By the way, too often it is better not to iron the coat.

Processing products using a steam iron provides many advantages:

• delicate processing of clothes;
• prevents the appearance of scorch marks;
• You can iron even the thinnest fabric;
• steam will be distributed evenly.

A significant disadvantage of a steam iron is that this device is too large and takes up a lot of space in the room, since the design consists of a casing and a large water tank. In this tank, the fluid is heated, which forms steam that is fed to the iron. By the way, the cost of this device is also referred to as disadvantages.

• Excellent advice for those who decide to steam and iron outerwear at home: please be ordinary paper napkins or those used for cleaning office equipment. These wipes will help clean the surface of the soleplate. Thus, the risk of occurrence of all kinds of scorch marks will be greatly reduced.
• If possible, the expensive coat is better to give dry cleaning. Professionals will easily return the original appearance of the product, made of moody fabrics.
• If you decide to do the ironing and steaming yourself, then after several repetitions of such a procedure, things will become familiar. Each time there will be less complications, especially when everything is done strictly according to the instructions.

With a great desire to iron yourself, you can even the most capricious coat of natural wool or cashmere. The main rule when working with a product of any material is accuracy. Everything needs to be done correctly: do not press on the electric iron, iron the front part of the coat only through wet gauze, but, in general, it is better to use steam, then there will simply be no problems.

Expert advice on the care of products from drape and other identical fabrics will allow you to properly iron the coat.