Ironing (Pressing) Clothes ... Do You? (page 5)

Mulan

I used to use a mangle. Absolutely loved it. I could iron a man's shirt in a few short minutes. Had to get rid of it when we downsized our home. It's the size of a washing machine, and I simply didn't have room for it anymore.

compound complex

Dear crisply-starched lads and lassies,

I have just returned home to find that ironing is definitely a love/hate matter! Such a goodly number of replies I would not ever have believed possible. Surely, I so wrongly assumed, that this is a topic like Hortensia's stinking sone.

You have reaffirmed my belief that something as necessary to everyday life as laundry need not be categorized on JWD as a fluff-cycle topic ...

Thanx all! Too, for your words of encouragement.

Love,

CoCo Cwaint

PS: I'm also rather clever with a needle, making window treatments by hand for clients' homes; it stands to reason, therefore, that I must iron to earn my baily dread.

WTWizard

Now that I am out, I no longer use my iron. It just sits there. And even then it would only be used for my dress shirts.

I haven't thrown the damn thing out yet, against the one time I might need to dress up in a suit.

shopaholic

I drip dry quite a few things...also love using the clothesline in the summer...but just like ex-nj-jw, I must have that crisp look.

I don't mind ironing. I put on some nice music and ironing becomes my quiet time.

Same here. I think we might be related.

LouBelle

I haven't been trained to do that - the last time I ironed was maaaaany years ago and it was probably something wet that I was trying to iron dry.

I have a lady that comes once a week - I'm a casual dresser soooo a couple of creases aint gonna kill me - PLUS YOU JUST DON"T IRON JEANS. You stick em on and walk the crinkles out - much cooler

Casper

PLUS YOU JUST DON"T IRON JEANS. You stick em on and walk the crinkles out - much cooler

LOL....

That's the way we do it........

Cas

reneeisorym

>>>I'm off and running to a pressing engagement

Aaahhahahaha!

compound complex

Thanks, once again, for your posts!

Renee:

You show real potential; will you be my press agent?

>>>I'm off and running to a pressing engagement.

Aaahhahahaha!

Well, I'm late for work ... please see the above.

CoCo

restrangled

I use to iron all my husbands and sons shirts and pants. The boys are gone and took both irons! One is really fussy and irons all his stuff. My husband now buys wrinkle free shirts and pants, get them out of the dryer fast and they look good.

The only thing I iron these days are our sheets. Nothing like crisp ironed sheets, absolute heaven. Those high count 100% cotton sheets come out like silk and stay cool at night too. Just put them on the bed and iron away. Takes about 5 minutes. Spritz on some lavender scented linen spray before you start.

r.

compound complex

Various antique irons. Miniature irons used for ties, collars etc.

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Metal pans filled with charcoal were used for smoothing fabrics in China in the 1st century BC [citation needed] . From the 17th century, sadirons or sad irons (from an old word meaning solid) began to be used. They were thick slabs of cast iron, delta-shaped and with a handle, heated in a fire. These were also called flat irons. A later design consisted of an iron box which could be filled with hot coals, which had to be periodically aerated by attaching a bellows. In Kerala in India, burning coconut shells were used instead of charcoal, as they have a similar heating capacity. This method is still in use as a backup device since power outage is frequent. Other box irons had heated metal inserts instead of hot coals. Another solution was a cluster of solid irons that were heated from the single source: as the iron currently in use cools down, it can be quickly replaced by another one that is hot.

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, there were many irons in use which were heated by a fuel such as kerosene, alcohol, whale oil, natural gas, carbide gas (acetylene) as with carbide lamps, or even gasoline. Some houses were equipped with a system of pipes for distributing natural gas or carbide gas to different rooms in order to operate appliances such as irons, in addition to lights. Despite the risk of fire, liquid-fuel irons were sold in U.S. rural areas up through World War II.

In the industrialized world, these designs have been superseded by the electric iron, which uses resistive heating from an electric current. The hot plate, called the sole plate, is made of aluminium or stainless steel. The heating element is controlled by a thermostat which switches the current on and off to maintain the selected temperature. The invention of the resistively heated electric iron is credited to Henry W. Seely of New York in 1882. In the same year an iron heated by a carbon arc was introduced in France, but was too dangerous to be successful. The early electric irons had no easy way to control their temperature, and the first thermostatically controlled electric iron appeared in the 1920s. Later, steam was used to iron clothing. Credit for the invention of the steam iron goes to Thomas Sears.

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