How do you iron this sort of sleeve?

[Aparecium]

I've been seeing dresses and blouses with puff sleeves, where the puff is created by sewing the puffy sleeve to a shorter, close-fitting, inner sleeve (often of jersey).

How do you iron it?!

I'm not sure if the dress I've screenshot has these sort of sleeves, but it gives an idea.

Get a steamer

Or dress on hanger steam function on iron.

Will a steamer get that crisp smoothness that ironing gives? Can you starch with a steamer? And could I use my steam cleaner, or would I have to buy a special laundry gadget if I want to wear such sleeves?

I roll up a bath sheet inside.

But you can't get inside the puff part - it's sewn to the inner part at the shoulder and at the 'cuff'.

Surely if you can get your arm through it you can get at the puff part? Treat each sleeve like a small bag with the opening at the shoulder and just push a towel of some kind inside until the sleeve is firm enough to iron.

Where is that dress from?

Buy a sleeve board - exactly what it says! Tiny ironing board for doing sleeves 😊

@BrownOwlknowsbest

no because the sleeve bit inside is a tube, imagine at loo roll inside the puff & it's glued both ends.

@Aparecium I think steaming is all you can do really. I'd just use the steam on my iron & not buy many of them. I'd buy a laundry hand steamer if I wanted to buy several tops in this design.

That dress is lovely, where's it from?

I iron very rarely but have a small iron for doing gathers and frills which would allow you to approach the gathers on the sleeves from top and bottom.
Mine is old but this is similar

dressing or tailors ham, and a small iron.
Buy Tailor's Pressing Hams online at williamgee.co.uk

I don't remember! Could you do an image search? IIRC it only came in white, which I won't wear.

This particular dress is from JJs house, I think (https://www.jjshouse.com/v-neck-a-line-chiffon-midi-dresses-295303148-g303148#/). But the Starlight dress from Nobody's Child is very similar, and comes in lots of different colours/ patterns: https://www.nobodyschild.com/products/white-seersucker-starlight-midi-dress

I think PPs are right that you wouldn't be able to flat iron this, it would need to be steamed. I guess how crisp the result was might depend on the fabric?

This.

Do you have the dress or are you just looking at a picture of it?
Normally a sleeve that looks like that is constructed with a small cuff or band at the bottom edge. It doesn't go all the way up inside. If it's made that way then a sleeve board would do the trick.
It would be unusual for it to be made in a fabric that needs to be ironed in the first place because the style depends on the drape and softness of the fabric. You don't want a crisp finish,it would look completely different. If you just want to get any actual creases out, I suggest making a very diluted solution of fabric conditioner in a spray bottle (about a couple of tablespoons of conditioner to a litre of water), give it a light spray, smooth with your hands and leave hanging up to dry. This will leave it crease free but still soft. This works a treat for fabrics where you want a crease free drape rather than a starched finish.

I've seen them in shops, that's how I could see the construction of the sleeve. Definitely built on an inner sleeve, with no cuff or band. Fabrics that need ironing, such as cotton or viscose, with stiffness rather than drape, so that the puff puffs out rather than sags down flat. I can't find exactly what I was looking at, but here are a couple of examples where the sleeve is clearer: a cotton shirt and a viscose dress.

I have a sleeve board, witch I use when I want to iron sleeves without a crease from shoulder to cuff. And I know how to iron gathers by either opening them up over the end of a board, or by lifting the gather as the tip of the iron glides into it. But I don't think either of these techniques is possible when the sleeve is constructed in a donut shape.

Lots of posters completely misunderstand ing that the sleeve is lined, but with a completely different construction so you can't iron it.

Steamer only I guess, but it wouldn't ever look perfect, would be best to buy a top/dress with this sleeve in a textured or patterned fabric(which wouldn't look as nice).

I've got one in a sort of textured muslin like fabric which works ok as a casual dress (because yes, they aren't ironed)

My solution would be not purchasing something that requires so much ironing, life is too short!

Yup

What’s an iron?

@Gall10 my DDs once enquired as to what the ironing board was whilst selling it at a car boot 😂 only thing our iron got used for was Hama beads!

You don’t iron them. Short spin,shake and hang up!

Give it a few blasts of steam and shake out.