# Dewrinkling my Leather Sportscoat

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dewrinkling-my-leather-sportscoat/394054>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 28, 2007, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dewrinkling-my-leather-sportscoat/394054 "2007-02-28T18:02:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2007, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dewrinkling-my-leather-sportscoat/394054/1 "2007-02-28T18:02:15Z")

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I’ve got a natural leather sportscoat (fairly lightweight) that’s been sitting in a crumpled pile in the corner. It’s pretty wrinkled and I’d like to dewrinkle it. How do I do it?

Can your average dry cleaner just press it like a normal sportscoat without ruining it? Could I leave it in the bathroom when I take a hot steamy shower? It’s moderately expensive, so I don’t want to screw it up.

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![Randy\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ee7513/32.png) [@Randy\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Randy_Seltzer)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2007, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dewrinkling-my-leather-sportscoat/394054/2 "2007-02-28T18:08:11Z")

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I wouldn’t recommend hanging it in the bathroom during a shower. Depending on the leather treatment, steam could damage it.

Have you hung it up for a couple of days? 99% of the time, if you just hang it on a wooden hanger and leave it in the closet for a week, the wrinkles will relax out of it.

If that doesn’t work, don’t take it to the dry-cleaners. Take it to a specialty cleaners - one that does leather. (Look up leather cleaning in your local yellow pages.) They’ll charge a lot ($25-$100), but they shouldn’t ruin it.

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**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2007, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dewrinkling-my-leather-sportscoat/394054/3 "2007-03-02T09:54:26Z")

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Thanks for the idea. I just ended up wearing it as is, to a funeral no less. My relatives are surprised to see me in anything other than shorts and a t-shirt, so I can get away with it. It actually dewrinkled quite a bit just by wearing it. I think the body heat helped out. A couple more outings and actually hanging it in the closet rather than tossing it in the corner, and I think it’ll be good to go.