Patent ID: 6945439

Claim:
A method of pressing items of clothing, which comprises: providing a pressing dummy having: an inflatable bag with at least one sub-region extending into an opening of the item of clothing intended for part of a human body as far as at least one end of the clothing item during a pressing operation; and an air-deflecting device disposed at the at least one end; and filling the inflatable bag with an airflow during the pressing operation: to extend the at least one sub-region into the opening of the clothing item as far as the at least one end of the clothing item; and to also blow through the air-deflecting device to influence a shape of the air-deflecting device and, dependent upon a compressive force of the airflow, to influence at least one of a position and an angle of a flow direction of the airflow; and tensioning the air-deflecting device in an active airflow and, as a result, directing the flow direction of the airflow on a surface of the clothing item at the latest once the air-deflecting device has been tensioned to a full extent thereof.