How To Iron A Cotton Shirt
| Beauty : Clothes And Fashion Pure cotton shirts are difficult to iron. The trick is to get them damp before you begin and then use a very hot setting. Spray them thoroughly with the iron, or take them straight out of the wash. Start at the back and work outwards. Use the curve at the end of the ironing board to stretch the shoulders over to iron this tricky bit!
More ironing adviceTip on ironing pure cotton clothing. First, you sprinkle the garment. lay it on your kitchen table, and take your hand and put it into a bowl of water and then sprinkle water gently on to the garment getting damp, not wet...then roll the garment up and put it into a plastic bag,stick in the fridge for half hour or so can be left for days and be perfectly safe. When you start to iron the shirt, lay the shirt on the ironing board,flat between the two sleeves, iron this YOKE first, the iron the sleeves, the take and turn the shirt, putting the top front yoke on the ironing board, left and then right does not matter which you do first , then turn the shirt,long ways one side at a time and proceed to iron, it you want the shirt to look like it came from the laundry, use spray starch, the kind that says heavey starch and spray and iron, spray and iron, no wrinkles, it takes time but this is not a hard thing to do, I have been ironing since I was 13, my mother worked in a laundry pressing shirts and she makes them look just like the came from the cleaners , just practice and patience, but you will so be rewardes nothing is sharper than fresn starched and ironed garments..
 Questions about ironing:My husband has taken a fancy to coloured cotton shirts. He likes them well starc...- Mon, Dec 5th 2005
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