PURPOSE: To promptly execute press-finishing work by equipping a clothing press-finishing machine with a lower iron composed of a cavity part to execute vacuum suction and an air permeable pad to cover the surface of a press faceplate part.

CONSTITUTION: Two lower irons 20 are provided on a machine base 30, and each lower iron 20 is equipped with a press faceplate part 21 equipped with vent holes 212, a cavity part 22, which is provided under the part 21, executes the vacuum suction, and is equipped with a heating part, and an air permeable pad 23 to cover a surface 211 of the press faceplate part 21. When wet clothing 50 composed of hemp, hemp blended yarn, etc., is placed on a prescribed lower iron 20 according to its part to be pressed, and an upper iron 10 is pressed through an air cylinder 45 and a ball receiving metal fitting 44 on the clothing 50 on the lower iron 20 by a control lever 22 and a control button 43, since the vacuum suction is always executed for the lower iron 20, and the upper iron 10 is heated and pressurized, the wet of the clothing 50 and the wet of the pad 23 can be instantaneously removed, simultaneously, the wrinkle of the clothing 50 can be promptly taken out, and the clothing 50 can be pressed up beautifully.