Help Pressing a Utilikilt

[Riverkilt]

Ingenious!!!

Is this a great board or what!!??

Point is...you CAN dry your washable kilts so that they don't need ironing after and there's no pleat curl.

Yeah, it may seem kinda weird, but it works, and its fast, and easy, and inexpensive.

Ron

[Abax]

The curl is happening because the extra thickness of the pleat sewn together at the edge is trying to shrink more than the single-thickness material that forms the bulk of the pleat. I don't wear my Mocker much anymore (and don't care if my Workman curls), but when I did, here's how I minimized the pleat curl.

After ironing my Utilikilt on a board, I hang it up using clips attached to the waistband. Then I steam the pleats one at a time, and while the pleat is still hot, I grab the waistband in one hand and the bottom of the pleat in the other. I pull down to stretch the pleat edge and - at the same time - curl the pleat slightly inwards. I hold the pleat for about 15 seconds until it cools. This stretches the sewn-down part of the pleat back to the same length as the rest of the pleat and takes any residual tendency to curl and pushes it flat against the kilt.

This takes about 4 minutes for the whole kilt.

Abax