Found a pattern trick that fixed my pleats after 6 ruined skirts

Last month I kept fighting with pleats on a wool skirt, they would never hang right no matter how much I pressed them. Then a tailor in Portland told me to iron the pleats while the fabric is still slightly damp and then pin them overnight. I tried it on a $12 thrift store skirt and the pleats came out razor sharp the next morning. Has anyone else tried the damp pin method or do you all use something else?

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the_ben11d ago

Damp pinning just makes the wool stretch weird and leaves water marks, dry ironing works way better.