Iron clothes the right way
DOING laundry comes with hustles. Some clothes require rubbing, others squeezing gently, then others requirehaving salt added to water and soaked for sometime before they are spread to dry. The struggle does not end there. Ironing comes next, but it does not have to be stressful.
BY HARRIET BIRUNGI
DOING laundry comes with hustles. Some clothes require rubbing, others squeezing gently, then others requirehaving salt added to water and soaked for sometime before they are spread to dry. The struggle does not end there. Ironing comes next, but it does not have to be stressful.
If you do not want your clothes to carry shiny patches from a flat iron, remove them from the line when slightly damp. Then iron the clothes from the inside to prevent them from getting brown because of overheating.
For delicate materials and colours that show any unwanted signs resulting from ironing, use a wet handkerchief on top of the cloth. For colours, especially black, place the handkerchief on the area that needs ironing. For ladies, to mantain the shapes and sizes of some clothes, move the iron following the way the cloth was tailored.
If you want to keep the size, iron from top to bottom so that it does not stretch and if you want it to stretch, then iron from side to side. To avoid developing the iron-line on the collar, spread it and put a handkerchief on it before you iron. Fold the collar only when ready to wear.
After ironing, hang the clothes for air to blow through and wear.
DOING laundry comes with hustles. Some clothes require rubbing, others squeezing gently, then others requirehaving salt added to water and soaked for sometime before they are spread to dry. The struggle does not end there. Ironing comes next, but it does not have to be stressful.
If you do not want your clothes to carry shiny patches from a flat iron, remove them from the line when slightly damp. Then iron the clothes from the inside to prevent them from getting brown because of overheating.
For delicate materials and colours that show any unwanted signs resulting from ironing, use a wet handkerchief on top of the cloth. For colours, especially black, place the handkerchief on the area that needs ironing. For ladies, to mantain the shapes and sizes of some clothes, move the iron following the way the cloth was tailored.
If you want to keep the size, iron from top to bottom so that it does not stretch and if you want it to stretch, then iron from side to side. To avoid developing the iron-line on the collar, spread it and put a handkerchief on it before you iron. Fold the collar only when ready to wear.
After ironing, hang the clothes for air to blow through and wear.