How to Iron a Polo Shirt

Looking for some basic steps to iron your favorite polo shirt effectively? In this article, we will guide you to iron it the proper way.

You could be an ironer, a housewife, or a son given a chance to earn a few bucks by ironing his father’s Ralph Lauren Polo shirt. Irrespective of who you are, by the time you are done reading this article, you will have sound knowledge of how to properly iron a Polo shirt.

As, every task a person performs is backed by a plan of action, and a plan of action is based on some predefined steps. The same is the case with ironing a Polo shirt. So, we will follow the ironing steps given below.

Steps to Iron a Polo Shirt

We have divided the ironing of the shirt into four main parts:

• Collar

• Sleeves

• Front/Main body 

• Back

You always start from the collar

The collar is the preferred starting point in ironing a Polo shirt due to its ease and the fact that it is the representation of a man’s sense of dressing.

Polo shirts are very fitted and they won't lay flat because it is attached to the button area, to counter this problem, we go over it in pieces. Go across the first half of the collar and when you're done with the first half, we do the same thing with the second half and the collar is done.

Jump down to the sleeves

When it comes to the sleeves, we need to be very gentle with Polo shirts because there is a possibility to warp them, because they are made out of knitted cotton which is known for warping under pressure. 

First of all, you straighten the bottom of the sleeve so there are no creases left, then we do the same with the upper sleeve and give it a good steam press.

The next step in pressing the sleeve is to level the ribs on its ends and give it steam which it sucks in. The reason behind this is that, if the ribs and sleeves are ironed with pressure and less steam, the cloth will start to give out a shine which can ruin its material.

The Main body

The front or main body is one of the two largest and most visible parts of a shirt. The part is proportionally so large that if it is ironed properly, it can minimize the attention of people on the smaller and less ironed portions.

The trick to it is simple, you take the iron and press it vertically on both sides of the chest one after another. But be careful of the motive if there is one on the chest. Motives usually melt off or stick to the iron base if immense pressure is applied, therefore, we have to be cautious while handling them with steam.  

After the upper front is dealt with, we must go down the front and go across the whole rear bottom with minimal pressure until the creases are gone. 

The Back

The back of a Polo shirt is one of the easiest parts to iron. Despite being easy, it sometimes annoys us due to the bulge that is caused by buttons on the front of the shirt. What we have to do is flip the shirt and put it on the table making its backside clearly visible to us.

Next, we take the iron and sweep it across the back of the shirt both vertically and horizontally. The part left is where the bulge is due to the buttons, to solve this we simply flip the shirt and take the shirt inside the shirt and press it from inside until the creases are cleared and the shirt is ready for a hanger.

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Conclusion

We have summed up some of the simple steps which make it easy to press a Polo shirt in no time. In the steps, we discussed that the collar is the starting point and it makes the rest of the shirt very easy to iron. 

Secondly, we told you some tricks on how to iron the sleeves and avoid making the color shine by steaming them, furthermore, we elaborated on how to iron the front and back parts of the shirt and take care of the bulge which sometimes annoys the ironer.