Do clothes pegs leave marks on your garments? Make them disappear using a few simple tips

May 31, 2022

Drying the laundry on the line is a method that, especially when it is not too cold, saves us electricity and money compared to using the dryer. However, to avoid clothes ending up everywhere - especially if we hang them out on balconies and outside buildings - we all use clothes pegs or laundry clips.

Some securing devices (like wooden pegs) are more delicate on the clothes - they have rubber pads or have a blunted shape and leave no trace on the clothes. But at other times, there are noticeable marks left where the fabric has been pinched by the pegs, and unsightly wrinkles are caused by this. How can we avoid and prevent this from happening? Find out by reading further:

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To remove peg marks:

First of all, you can use an iron: obviously you will do so when the garment is already dry and therefore it is not necessary to wet the garment again, but spray a little water (distilled, if possible) only on the part to be treated and then immediately pass an iron over the damped area until the fabric is dry again.
As an alternative, if you also want to do this task quicker - especially when the iron takes some time to heat up - is to use a hair straightener in the same way.
A little less effective is using a hairdryer, but if the mark was not too imprinted to deeply, it can work (or, at least disguise the mark a bit).

If these methods don't seem to work, you can try wetting a slightly larger area of the garment and using heat again. Otherwise you will have to wait for the next laundry to make these marks disappear.

To avoid a similar situation, it is therefore better to always pay a little attention to how you hang up your clothes to dary (and the type of pegs you use).

How to avoid the formation of the marks left by pegs?

Use hangers: use those with the larger plastic or wooden form and not those made of wire that could cause damage. This not only avoids the crease caused by the pegs, but is often also enough to avoid having to iron the entire garment later. So for dresses, T-shirts and anything you can put on a hanger, it's a super handy tip.
Make sure that the edges of the various clothes being hung up overlap on the line: in this way the spring of the peg will not just clamp down on one piece of fabric and will be less likely to leave a noticeable mark. It also saves space on the line.
There are those who, rather than using pegs at all, lay their clothes out to dry by placing them over the hanging rails of a clothes horse.
For dresses and T-shirts: do not hang them up by folding them in half over the line, but by placing the pegs on the collar, at the bottom hem or under the armpits.
In the case of trousers and skirts, the pegs always go at the waist, so the marks are not seen.
Have pieces of old, clean towels or cloth ready, as well as pieces of padding sheets (sometimes found on hangers in shops) and place them on the clothing where the pegs will be put.