pressing wool?

PRESS, don't iron! Use a fairly hot DRY iron and a damp (as in soaked and wrung out) cotton or linen pressing cloth. Line the leg seams up to get the crease in the right place. Don't move the iron on the cloth - lift it, press down on a new area. Don't let the iron touch the trouser cloth.

If you don't have a suitable pressing cloth, use a clean tea towel.

Usually, the amount of construction (lining in the hip area, pockets, etc) make men's trousers a pain to iron. If these are good suit trousers, I would get them done at the dry cleaner - wool stretches while damp, and you can end up with a baggy result.

However, if you want to try it, you should iron through a cloth, or the wool will go shiny. I would advise starting with medium heat and using a damp cloth rather than spritzing the garment itself, in case you get water spots.

If you're going to iron a lot of trousers, it's worth seeing if your local fabric shop will let you take the cardboard interior of a flat fabric bolt

- they're about 6" wide and 45" long usually. Cover this in fabric, and it's quite handy to slide inside the leg of the trouser for ironing.

:) Trish