A wrinkled shirt looks tired and scruffy. Many find ironing tedious and time consuming, but it doesn't have to be. Let us show you! Putting on a dress shirt with lots of wrinkles not only lowers the quality of your overall outfit, it also lowers your confidence and makes you stand out for all the wrong reasons. Wearing a wrinkled dress shirt could make you look like a person who doesn’t pay attention to the details, and who would want that? To avoid all this, you need to know how to iron your dress shirt correctly.
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Preparation Is Key
Ensure shirts are washed at no more than 30 degrees, at a maximum 800 spin. When done take them out of the washing machine and place on a hangar, do all the buttons up. As they dry this will stop them from over creasing unnecessarily.
Equipment is important
Ironing Board Plus steam iron.
Collar
Iron out the underside of the collar, DO NOT USE STEAM. Iron out from the center to the edges. There is no need to fold the collar over and iron along the crease. This method will preserve the life of your collar and stop it bubbling up or fraying at the edges.
Left Side
With the armhole stretched over the narrow point of the board, use your steam shot and iron out the front left shirt panel.
Back
Hook the yoke of the shirt (the panel under the collar) into the ironing board point and press the back, again using your steam shot to help. Shift it along to finish.
Right Panel
Now the right (button) panel. Lay this with the buttons facing DOWN. Then press the panel again using your steam shot. Iron over the back of the button panel - wow, no manoeuvring the iron in between. the buttons or accidentally cracking them!
Sleeves
Carefully stretch out the sleeve to form the shape, place the heel of the iron toward the cuff (but take care not to touch the button on the sleeve placket) and then press up toward the armhole till it looks like my sleeve in the photo above. With Roberto Revilla London shirts I never bother with the cuffs as they're so well constructed they don't need any help.
Hang
Put your freshly ironed shirt on to a wooden hangar and do the buttons up. That's it, you're done.