How to iron a wedding dress?

Ironing the dress over a hot tub?

The most labor-consuming and difficult product for ironing is a wedding dress: thin delicate fabrics, abundance of decorative elements frills, ruffles, folds, draperies , generous decorations flowers, beads, rhinestones, embroidery , several layers of underskirt. The easiest option is to order ironing in a wedding salon often this service is free , or give the outfit to dry cleaners 200-500 Dollars . But it is not always convenient, and then while the dress is “going” home in its case, and while waiting for a happy day in the closet, it may still wrinkle. Therefore, the bride should be prepared to solve the problem at home.

In this case a steamer or an iron with vertical steam or better a steam station would be a reliable helper. The dress is worked on the shoulders, starting with the bodice, then the sleeves and skirt. Steam should be fine. If there is no device at hand, you can resort to no less reliable, but not as spectacular “folk recipe”. This is the easiest advice from the professionals – pour hot water into the tub to steam , hang the dress on a voluminous hangers over it and leave for a few hours. Warm moisture will do its job and the fabric will straighten.

Mom comes to the rescue

But if ironing is still necessary? It is better not to start it alone – you need an assistant – a mother or a friend. In addition, you will need: a cloth for ironing or gauze in several layers , a sprayer, a couple of terry towels, white napkins. Iron dry without water with an iron on “1” or “2”, always through a spray-moistened ironing cloth or gauze.

1 step. Iron the bodice. Put several layers of terry towel on the board, so as not to damage the ornaments. Turn the bodice on the wrong side and gently iron.

Step 2. Let’s put a special ironing pad “sleeve ironer” or a rolled up towel in the sleeves. Starting at the front or back, carefully smooth out the seam, ending at the line from the shoulder. Filling the sleeves with rolled-up napkins.

Step 3. If the skirt is wide, the helper holds the dress so that the bodice is vertical and the hem is loose on the board. Let’s start with the side seam, unfold if necessary the dress and proceed to the front part, then to the side and back parts. Narrow skirt is ironed as sleeves, using not wide ironing board. If the skirt is decorated with beads or rhinestones, it is ironed from the back with soft towels underneath.