People have ironed their clothes for a long time. That hasn't changed. What has changed is the instrument used to do the ironing. Remember this old relic? It was heated by whatever means possible and when "hot" used to press out wrinkles in clothes. Most people was happy with just ironing dress clothes, but some zealots ironed all outter garments, underwear, handkerchiefs, and even their hair!!! To heat the irons (everybody had several) you usually put them on the eye of your wood stove or eyes of the burner of a range. After a few minutes of ironing, the iron got too cool to press out wrinkles. Then you returned it to the stove to heat up again, picked up another iron that was hot, and continued ironing. There were about as many iron shapes and patterns as there were peas in a pea-patch. The old irons are gone now except for conversation pieces.
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