Are you all set for office tomorrow, but your shirt is not yet laundered? Oh! What a mess! You don’t even have the iron to press your office attire. Walking down to office with wrinkled dress will surely make your day worse. Furthermore, if you are getting ready for an outing, and find your favorite costume choices to have wrinkles, how do you feel? Here are some ways to eliminate wrinkles from clothes to make your daily life a bit easier and that too without an iron!
Let’s have a glance of these easy methods.
1. Use your wife’s flat iron:
It might sound weird, but it is a fact. You just need to borrow the same device from your wife that she uses to straighten her hair. The technology has changed. During ‘60s, women preferred to straighten their hair using actual iron, then why not to use a hair-straighter as an iron. Even though this very device will not help you out completely, but can assure to get rid of minor crumples on your shirt.
2. Use of flat metal vessel:
You also have a brilliant idea when you do not have an iron to press your outfits. This trick is one of the oldest, but somehow effective. Boil water in a flat-bottomed metal vessel and then spill out the water. Apply the heat of the flat-base of the metal vessel on the wrinkles portion. See, how it works!
3. Use the dryer:
This is one of the best ways to remove wrinkles from clothes without an iron. Yes, the dryer! You need to put the creased clothes into the dryer. Moisten either a small portion of a sock, a handkerchief or any small washed cloth and put it inside the dryer. You can replace the damped sock or handkerchief with moist dryer sheets. You are almost at the last stage, now set the dryer on medium heat settings for approximately 15-20 minutes. Pull out the wrinkled clothes and see the magic!
4. Use the pressure of the mattress:
Take your wrinkled garment and roll it gently into a burrito. Once it is rolled, make sure there is no fold or wrinkle inside as well as outside. Place the garment under a mattress and let it lie for an hour. Surprisingly, most of the wrinkles will be vanished.
5. Remove the wrinkles while you take shower:
Though electric irons are portable, yet it is not possible to carry an iron where ever you go. There is a brilliant method to remove the wrinkles while you take a bath. Seal the windows as well as the doors of the bathroom, hang your clothes over the bathroom rod or from plastic hangers. Turn on the shower in such a direction so that the clothes do not get wet. Have a refreshing shower (preferably hot water bath) for some time. Now see the wonder, your dresses are wrinkle free and ready to wear. Isn’t it wonderful?
6. Effective hair dryer method:
Hang your slightly dampened cloth from a hanger. Now, switch on the hair dryer and grip it at an inch or two from the dress. This is a very easy process to take out wrinkles. However, you need to be careful or else you may end up burning your favorite outfit. It is worth mentioning that this process works fantastic for cotton clothes.
7. Wet towel method:
Ironing can eliminate all the unwanted wrinkles and creases in two minutes. Nonetheless, you can achieve the same by knowing various ways to remove wrinkles from clothes without an iron. One of the best possible processes is wet towel method. Preferably an unused and slightly soaked tower will work better. Place the dress on a flat surface i.e. bed or table without folding it and set the wet towel on top of it. It takes a bit more time, but it will assure you wrinkle free cloth.
8. Steam method to wash out wrinkles:
Boil water in a vessel, which has a small outlet from where steam can escape (kettle is the best vessel used in such method). Place your crumpled cloth at a foot’s distance from the steam. It will wash away the wrinkles and prepare your dress.
9. Vinegar can remove wrinkles:
Have you ever thought of applying vinegar on your dress? Might be not! However, this incredible method is also capable to remove the wrinkles. Prepare a transparent solution of vinegar and water at a ratio of 1:3. Spray it on the wrinkled portions and see how amazingly it works! If you still cannot believe, try it once.
10. Use artificial wrinkle removing spray:
If you are still in dilemma that without touching iron how can you get rid of wrinkles from your fashionable attire, then you need to visit local stores to pick up the recently launched professional sprays to remove wrinkles. Yes, it is true. Plenty of such safe and effective sprays are there in the market. You can bring one instead of carrying an iron. Well, let me tell you these sprays are fiber friendly and will not harm your textile.
11. The lazy hang and spray method:
Yes you heard it right; this very method is for lazy people to eradicate wrinkles. Hang your garment outside under the sun and spray water on it. You have two options; either spray and hang or hang and then spray!
12. Common man’s method:
Poor people don’t even give a damn to iron their clothes before they set their feet outside their home. They simple sprinkle water on the wrinkle portions and rub it or pat it. Surprisingly, the wrinkles are gone! This poor man’s method may be advantageous to you as well.
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