I have a pleated skirt that looks like it's made out of some sort of polyester double-knit (if there was ever a fabric content label, it's disappeared long ago.)
Anyway, many of the pleats have multiple creases, as if someone had tried to iron it several times, and not done a good job of any of them. And the pleats are not at all crisp, so the skirt doesn't hang right.
I tried to re-iron the skirt, but didn't have much luck. First of all, in contrast to cotton, the fabric has a mind of its own, wet or dry. When I lay out some folds, it shifts around, and if I pin it and squish it down, it sort of lies there and then slides back to where it wants to be the minute the shadow of the iron hits it.
Second, the fabric is so heavy the parts I'm not trying to iron slide off the ironing board and pull the carefully laid folds out of whack. Finally, even though I set the iron on the "silk" setting instead of "synthetic", the creases won't stick. I press down real hard, to the point that the fabric looks shiny, but when I pick up the fabric, the creases I put in disappear completely within a few minutes. I've done maybe 15 or 20 of the 45-odd pleats, and when I hang the skirt up, you can't tell where I've pressed. The OK parts are still just OK (well, given how bad I am with an iron, I can't complain), and the awful parts are still awful in the same way they were before.
Any suggestions?