How to iron your jeans correctly and quickly?

Jeans are one of the most common clothing items for adults and children.

Proper care of them allows the product to look attractive and serve for a long time.

But do jeans need to be ironed, and how to do it correctly? Let's try to figure out how to iron jeans after washing with an iron and alternative methods.

If necessary?

Denim is a material that lends itself well to ironing... If everything is done correctly, then your favorite pair of trousers will not deteriorate, and even become softer. This will also provide more comfort when wearing denim pants.

Situations where ironing is recommended:

• For straightening crumpled fabric.
• To make the product soft.

How is it correct?

Iron your jeans correctly necessary according to the following instructions:

1. Turn trousers inside out.
2. If the fabric is completely dry, then the jeans should be moistened with water using a container with a spray.
3. Set the ironing mode on the iron.
4. Put the fabric folded several times into the pockets so that the seams do not appear by the print on the front side of the jeans.
5. You should start ironing from the belt area.
6. Iron the top of the trousers by wearing them on the narrow side of the ironing board.
7. Pay attention to the area of ​​the back pockets.
8. After the top has been ironed, the trousers are removed and laid out along the ironing board. Each leg is ironed separately.
9. The legs are ironed starting from the side and inside seams. They are stroked without strong pressure, first on one side, then on the other.
10. After ironing the front, leave the jeans flat to cool and dry completely.

If you use an iron, then it is necessary to lay additional fabric when ironing, avoiding contact between the heating surface and the decor.

Features depending on the density of denim

There are several types of denim, which differ in density, are found among them and mixed. Features of the composition affect the degree of intensity of heat exposure when ironing with an iron.

This factor must be taken into account when ironing:

1. Dense denim without synthetic fibers... Thick jeans, the tag of which says "100% cotton", are sewn from natural cotton.

   This fabric is highly durable, considered traditional for denim clothing.

   If desired, these denim pants can be ironed at a high temperature (180-200 ° C) to flatten the fabric and soften the material.

2. Medium weight fabrics... Medium density material often has various additives in small amounts. After washing, these trousers become rougher, and if not dried properly, they may have creases and ugly folds.

   To eliminate defects and make the fabric softer, they are ironed at temperatures up to 150 ° C. If the temperature is exceeded, damage to the material and deformation of the fabric is possible.

3. Thin denim... This group includes fairly thin denim fabrics (jeans-silk, chambray). They wrinkle after washing and require ironing. The optimum temperature setting for the iron is 110 ° C.

Steamer and steam generator

The steamer and steam generator can be used to smooth jeans.

Steamer application:

• purified water is poured into the steamer;
• clothes are hung, straightened;
• include a steamer;
• pulling back the fabric, iron it.

The steam generator is similar to a regular iron, and provides dry steam... The power of the device allows you to iron even very tight jeans.

How to smooth jeans without an iron, the video will tell you:

Can I do without an iron?

If there is no iron, steamer, or steam generator at hand, then you can straighten jeans in various ways:

1. The use of improvised means.
2. Using steam.

Each of the ways ironing without iron allows you to straighten the fabric of denim pants very effectively... It is also important to adhere to certain rules.

Steam bath

If time permits, the denim can be stretched over the hot steam.

This can be organized as follows:

• take boiling water into the bathroom so that hot steam rises;
• hang jeans over the bathroom so that the trousers hang freely, but do not touch the water;
• leave trousers for several hours;
• move jeans to a dry place.

Jeans should dry loosely without touching other things.

Quick and slow action tools at hand

When jeans need to be straightened quickly and there is practically no free time, you can use improvised means:

1. Boiling water poured into a saucepan or metal mug. Hot water is poured into the container not to the very top, so as not to splash. The trousers are laid out as evenly as possible and gently smoothed with a container of boiling water. If the creases are very strong, then the fabric should be slightly moistened beforehand.
2. Using the press. Smoothing pressure can be achieved by gently spreading the trousers under the bed mattress. This method assumes that you have enough free time, and may not help if the thing is very wrinkled.

How to avoid ironing after washing?

Washing and drying properly is the easiest way to avoid ironing... Jeans are washed at a temperature not exceeding 40 ° C, and do not set high spin speeds.

Dry trousers straightened... Best of all - hanging. With your hands, you need to carefully straighten the fabric, smooth out the burlap of the pockets, and close the zipper.

8 recommendations

In order to avoid sharp corners when ironing your favorite denim pants, we recommend using the following tips:

1. Before you start ironing, you need to examine the label on the product. It indicates the composition of the material and the ironing mode recommended by the manufacturer.

   If there is no label, then regular jeans begin to iron from 150 ° C.

2. Ironing must be carried out from the inside out, since violation of this rule leads to the formation of glazed places with a shine uncharacteristic of jeans. For black denim, this condition is strict.
3. The fabric must be moistened before ironing.
4. Check the pockets for foreign objects before ironing.
5. After ironing, the trousers are not put on immediately, but are given time to dry completely and cool down.
6. Ironing the fabric through a special mesh or gauze is optional.
7. When ironing denim trousers, the arrows on them are not ironed.
8. It is convenient to iron jeans on an ironing board using a steam iron.

Conclusion

Whether or not to iron your jeans is determined by their condition, style, comfort and the effect that needs to be emphasized.

After heat treatment, denim items lend themselves well to smoothing, become softer and more comfortable to wear.