How To Iron A Suit Like A Tailor At Home - Fort Belvedere

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Secrets to wrinkle-free suits, all day! - https://gentl.mn/2HwN0vR First, I suggest you start with a body and you can lay it over the tip of the ironing board similarly to a shirt. Carefully work on the front quarters. To prevent your jacket getting shiny, it pays to have a pressing cloth which could be made of linen, maybe an old t-shirt that you cut and generally want something that has no lint and no fuss. Simply put it between the iron and the garment and pull at the edges so you can see what's going on while you iron. The next step up from this is to get a Teflon sole because it will prevent the fabric from getting shiny but you can see everything that's going on. Once you're done with the front quarters, it's time to go to the lapels. Personally I really much prefer to iron lapels on a tailor's hem and a sleeve board because you get that natural rounding that the lapel has on your body. A quality handmade jacket is always identifiable by the lapel roll. Cheap suits or some that were pressed cheaply, have very flat pressed lapel area and you should avoid that at all cost because it makes it look cheap and you don't want that. To increase the lapel roll, you can even iron the lapel in the beginning part from the back which really helps to achieve this beautiful bespoke style roll. Don't iron over the lapel that's folded because otherwise, it's stiff and flat. Once you're done with that, you could iron the back area of the jacket. That's easily done even on a regular ironing board with a regular iron. Just pay attention to the seams which is the center seam and try to not press hard on them but slightly on the side that way, you won't see the pattern of the seams on the outside of the fabric. Next up it's time to iron sleeves and that's when a sleeve board comes in really really handy. Rather than ironing two layers of fabric at the same time, I prefer to have one layer of fabric but a sleeve is usually never just straight. There is a slight curve and you want to maintain that curve by ironing in that same fashion. Most sleeve boards I know are straight and so it's a little challenge but you can do it by following the patterns on the jacket sleeve. If there's no pattern, simply take that motion in a slight banana curve. Similar to a shirt sleeve, you simply rotate the sleeve and that way you ensure to have a nice even result without any wrinkles and without any military crease on your sleeve. Now you can also earn the back area underneath the collar and also the collar itself. it's very difficult or next to impossible to iron a collar on a flat ironing board you need a sleeve board or no tailor's ham so it can roll and drape nicely and just iron little parts of it. If you have patch pockets you can use a sleeve board as well to iron them and then maybe the clapper on top to get a straight edge. At this point, you're basically done with your jacket. Ideally, you put it on a hanger or even better and manikin so you can really look it over and see any areas that you might have missed but it just got wrinkles while you were ironing other parts. Again take a look at lapels, make sure the roll is there, there is no puckering or any waviness, look at the shoulders, look at the sleeves again, because sometimes you see creases on the inside of the elbow or usually Jackets crease above the bum around the waist level in the back. Last but not least you may not be happy with the wrinkles in the lining. Now ideally use your iron and hover over it with a steam and pull it at the same time that will likely release most of the wrinkles. If it doesn't you can gently press it or use a steamer that produces even more steam than your regular iron and you should be good to go. Just be careful not to press too hard because otherwise, you may end up with wrinkles on the outside of the jacket which is a lot worse than in the lining. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Want to stay updated? Sign up here for free: https://gentl.mn/2p8K1TI Want to see more videos? Subscribe to our channel! https://www.youtube.com/user/thegentlemansgazette --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gentleman's Gazette https://www.gentlemansgazette.com/ SHOP: https://gentl.mn/2FyL8WU https://www.facebook.com/gentlemansgazette FREE EBOOK: https://gentl.mn/2p8K1TI