How To Iron A Suit, Blazer or Sport Coat - How To Press Suits, Sleeves, Back... Gentleman's Gazette

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00:00 How To Iron A Suit, Blazer or Sport Coat Introduction

Many people are hesitant to press a jacket and even a tailor can sometimes takes 30 to 45 minutes to completely and accurately press a jacket. Unfortunately the procurement tailors use is very expensive but I'll still show you a way on how you can press a jacket at home with a very minimal investment in equipment.

00:53 How To Iron Jacket.
An even better and faster alternative to the bathroom steam is to invest in a steamer. Usually, about 100 bucks will get you a long way and you will end up with something that produces a lot of steam and you could just steam your jacket when it hangs on a hanger. It has the advantage that you can de-wrinkle specific areas such as the sleeve head, a sleeve, or the back and honestly, it works really really well.

02:43 Start with the body.
You can lay it over the tip of the ironing board similarly to a shirt carefully work on the front quarters to prevent your jacket from getting shiny it pays to have a pressing cloth which could be made of linen, maybe an old t-shirt that you cut, in general, want something that has no lint and no fuss. simply put it between the iron and the garment and pull the edges so you can see what's going on while you iron.

04:18 Get a Teflon sole.
It will prevent the fabric from getting shiny but you can see everything that's going on. Personally, I really much prefer to iron lapels on a tailor's ham and the sleeve board because you get that natural rounding that the lapel has on your body. a quality handmade jacket is always identifiable by the lapel roll, cheap suits or some that were pressed cheaply have very flat pressed lapel area and you should avoid that at all cost because it makes it look cheap and you don't want that. to increase the lapel roll you can even iron the lapel in the beginning part from the back which really helps to achieve this beautiful bespoke style roll. don't iron over the lapel line and that's folded because otherwise, it's stiff and flat. once you're done with that you could iron the back area of the jacket that's easily even on a regular iron board with a regular iron. just pay attention to the seams which is the center seam and try to not press hard on them but slightly on the side that way you won't see the pattern of the seams on the outside of the fabric. that's especially important with thinner or flimsy fabrics. the same is true when ironing, for example, the corners of your back vents. If you want a crisp result, you can use a clapper to get that nice crease.

07:01 Iron sleeves and that's when a sleeve board comes in really really handy.
Rather than ironing two layers of fabric at the same time, I prefer to have one layer of fabric but a sleeve is usually never just straight. It always has a slight curve and you want to maintain the curve by ironing in that same fashion. mostly for as I know are straight and so it's a little challenge but you can do it by following the patterns on the jacket sleeve. if there's no pattern simply take that motion in a slight banana curve.

At this point, you're basically done with your jacket. Ideally, you put it in a hanger or even better a mannequin so you can really look it over and see any areas that you might have missed or it just got wrinkles while you were ironing other parts.

Last but not least you may not be happy with the wrinkles in the lining. Ideally, use your iron and hover over it with steam and pull it at the same time, that will likely release most of the wrinkles.

11:34 Outfit Rundown

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