Crease Makers from the 50's

[stevet]

Does anyone here remember back to when our Moms would use these expandable frames that they would put into long pants to form a crease in them while they hung on the line to dry? They were expandable on the tops and down the length of the frame to fit most size pants.
I can remember them so vividly and wish I had then now to use on my fire retardant pants which are a pain to iron all the time.

Does anyone still make or sell them?

 

[DADoES]

 
I never knew of those until I saw them being used by a new neighbor across the street (we had moved) in the early 1980s for line-drying denim jeans.

 

[stevet]

Yep!

Them's the things I am talking about!

 

[verizonbear]

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[launderess]

You can find the real (vintage) thing

On fleaPay all the time. Pants, gloves, sweater, and curtain along with a host of other laundry day stretchers.

 

[stevet]

Thanks!

Yes, those are the item! Now they include a hook. Mom always clipped them to the line!
Will look into it!

 

[abcomatic]

Mom called them pants stretchers. She used them and we had several of these frames. She hung them on the line also.

 

[tomturbomatic]

We had them before permanent press. They bruised creases in the fabrics that lasted for years afterwards when the pants were used for yard work and dried in the dryer. I dug them out and used them upside down in flared leg and bell bottom pants in the 70s. In elementary school, friends used to notice that my creases remained sharp all day while the creases that their moms ironed into their pants faded early in the day.