This is sooo useful. It's something I dread every Sunday night but I'll be approaching it with a spring in my step from now on!

Fantastic. At last, a quick and easy way of ironing. Doing up the top button is genius. I still cannot beat 3 minutes, but I love a challenge.

This really helped me improve the finish of my shirts.

Now I know why I got a wrinkle in my collar today - I was pressing on the front of the iron, not the heel! I don't think my mother taught me that bit - or I'd forgotten. Very useful video - thanks a lot.

I will try that, it looks a lot easier than the way I do it,    and a tip, I treat myself to a steam generator iron ( the water is in a seperate base unit) it makes life a lot easier!!

Get yourself a maid. It takes time to teach her but then it pays back.  I do some minor ironing before I wear a shirt.

I also use starch spray to keep my T.M Lewin looking sharp.

If I don't, my shirts look very average after 1 hour of wearing them.

Oddly enuf, thats how i've been ironing my shirts for 20 years. the Lewin shirts are a great fit but a bugger to iron as the the shirts get older. i have found that dampening them down and leaving for a couple of hours and then dampen them down again and then iron. crisp finishes! Only use a little starch as it leaves the shirt shiney. I gotta get a life!

just learnt something new today..nice concept..taking this back to Nigeria..

Doing up the top button. Simple and effective, plus pressing on the heel. Thanks for that one!

Its not surprising that TM Lewin need a video on how to iron, considering how difficult to iron thier shirts are!

Im not surprised either that this comment keeps 'dissapearing' from the thread...

 

My average was about 6 mins, cheers John

Heel first, genius!

Top tip doing up shirt button. To the man who complains about the difficulty in ironing their shirts why are you even looking at this if you don't like their product?

Hang on - he only ironed one sleeve, and one side of the yoke!

I'd say it's worth taking a little bit longer and doing it properly - this is a very cursory effort if you ask me.

First of all well done T M Lewin. Great community site and good information. However there are many of us who prefer not to iron at all so how about bringing back the excellent non-iron range you had about two years ago. I am literally desperate for some of these.

Lewins are great and thank you for the cheque........I mean tips. Will try doing the button up. Nice to see such a successful home grown company thats not floated with a team thats taken them to where they are.

Pound for pound I would say they are the best shirts going. Some other shirts may produce shirts that are a little nicer but they cost 3 x as much and are not 3 x as nice as TM's. Particularly some of John Francombes..........they are the nuts. 

THANKS, JOHN

Some really useful tips here even if you have been ironing for years. Will try them next time for a speedier end result.

HAve sent the link to my fiance. she has only ironed two garments for me and they were terrible. This video should help her improve her technique. She took 15 minutes to do one shirt so if we get under 10 with this video that will be a result. We get married in three weeks time so an opportune moment to iron my shirt for the day.

Thanks Jon!!

What a nice tip there,this will really go a long way to look good and maintain the materials, nice one!!! cheers

Very well done even though nothing new compared to what I've seen from my Mom :)

I'd still love to see him having a try at a size 6 fitted women's shirt though because that's what I've got a pile of ... I love my Lewin shirts as they're a perfect fit and I wouldn't change them for anything but I can't imagine ever reaching that magical 3 mins with the teeny tiny curved panels on mines.

Kat

Did he not put a crease or iron the double cuffs??

I'd love to see a return of the 'traveller' shirts.  I bought some of the normal shirts after having only bought 'traveller' ones in the past.  Still great quality but not as practical. Help please so my wife starts doing my shirts for me again !!

No great revelation there ...

The very best thing of this video is a *man* ironing a shirt...! Thanks for this pleasure!

Can anyone help with collar ironing tips that will preserve the collar bone.  I've had to discard of quite a few fairly new shirts as a result of the damaged "collar straightening thingies".  Shouting at the ironing lady hasn't helped much, so any tips would be so welcome.

Hi! 

Useful vid for the other half, but wondering if you could do a vid for ironing womens shirts, these tend to be more tricky because of the darts that enable the great fit.

The only way I have found that works, is to iron them inside out. Does anyone have any other tips please?

 

Excellent vid, a few points though:

Firstly, I've found that if you iron the back of the cuff and the collar first, you're less likely to form the unsightly creases on the front, they actually formon the inside, but that's ok as they're hidden.

Secondly, If you're like me and like to keep your shirts for ages, then ironing on a folded collar will destroy the collar rapidly. iron it once and then just fold over as JF suggests.

Thirdly, Iron the front panels last as these are ones that people will see most. Ironing them last ensures that you don't crease them when ironing other parts.

Enjoy!

what shirt is he wearing please?

 

thanks

Hi John, 

just wondering if you could give me some advice. I have a plain cotton white shirt (unfortunately not from you, one of my older ones) (and i'm not sure exactly how to describe it) that has parallel lines running vertically, the lines being around 3mm wide. And every alternate strip is slightly raised (the others indented).

When I try to iron it, it irons alright, but when I hang it up and leave it for a while, the creases appear again. Is this the material or am i doing something wrong?

Thanks,

William