For already that season, a pleated skirt is a recognized hit in the wardrobe of all women of fashion. Long in the floor, shortened analogue to the knees - all this you can find on the shelves of the most fashionable shops of the city. This popularity pleated skirt was not accidental: it will always make the image feminine and romantic, and what else can so well emphasize the girl's grace and attract men's views?
Today, most often, this skirt is made from thin and light chiffon. For the bravest women of fashion sewn skirts made of fine jersey of juicy and bright colors.
Such a thing in the wardrobe is always relevant and fresh. No matter what material your skirt is made of, improper care of it will significantly shorten the service life and lead to a loss of presentable appearance.
How to prepare a skirt for ironing?
Few of the women of fashion when buying this stylish gimmick wonders if it is possible to iron a pleated skirt at all. Thin and airy material and a huge number of folds just pose a dead end. In fact, there are only a few rules for caring for such a skirt. Before you learn how to iron a pleated skirt properly, you need to be able to wash it properly.
Here are a few ways to wash the skirt:
- If you are in doubt or worried about your new clothes, better give it to dry cleaners.
- Try putting the skirt along the entire length in the stocking. It is necessary to wash and dry it in this form.
- To ensure that the pleat does not lose its shape, wash the product with ordinary wide stitches before washing. Remember how to make a product - so sew your skirt as well. Pay special attention to the hem. If you can lay quite wide stitches in the middle of the skirt, then at the bottom it should be done more carefully and with smaller stitches. Try not to tighten the tight thread, it will ruin the folds. Ideally, the pleated skirt should be washed by hand, but modern washing machines can do it for you. After you have stitched the skirt, you can safely put a delicate mode. To be confident and calm for the fate of your skirt, put it in a bag for washing. Be sure to add a conditioner for the laundry, this will help to smoothly smooth the skirt.
Now that you have properly washed the product, you can begin to iron the pleated skirt.
How to iron a pleated skirt?
If before you iron the pleated skirt, you have correctly fixed all wrinkles with stitches, this process will not cause much trouble. Do not forget that the temperature of heating the iron directly depends on the material from which the skirt is made. Here are some tips on how to iron pleated things, depending on the material of the fabrication:
- silk, artificial or natural, it is necessary to iron only from the inside, do not splash on the fabric with water - this contributes to the appearance of spots;
- jersey is better to iron through double gauze, try not to iron so much as steal the product;
- Silk jersey is only ironed when absolutely necessary, from the inside out through a damp cloth.
How to iron smoothly?
It is better to iron a slightly wet skirt, do not let it dry completely. At the same time, you do not need to remove your firmware. To iron only through gauze. Only after ironing can remove the thread. If you dry your skirt after washing in a stocking, you may not need ironing at all. If you properly look after the skirt, it will serve you more than one season. And if you are very worried that you can not figure out how to wash and iron a pleated skirt, just give it to professionals from dry cleaning.