How to iron a dress shirt ?

2006-10-07
You want to iron your dress shirt painless!
Read these instructions:

Set the fabric dial of your iron to the appropriate setting (in general 'cotton' for dress shirt)
1- Start ironing the back of the collar, then the front. Start at the points and move inward.
2- Lay one shoulder over the narrow edge of the board and iron it, shifted your shirt as needed. Iron the second shoulder at the same.
2- Open cuffs fully and iron inside first and then outside.
3- Lay flat one sleeve and iron it. Start with the back side, front side second and take extra care on armhole seams.
4- Hang shirt over board so that one front panel of the shirt can be extended flat. Iron from shoulder to shirttail.
5- Rotate shirt over board so that you iron the back next, and the other front panel last.
6- Hang your shirt immediatly on a hanger to avoid wrinkles.

If your shirt is exceptionally wrinkled, you can spray some water onto the part of the shirt that is about to beironed.