To provide a clothing presser by which clothing is rapidly and surely set and a pressing work is quickly started.

An almost rectangular-shaped main body side pinching plate 1 is connected to a lid side pinching plate 3 by metallic connection fixture 2 so as to be opening/closing possible. A heating part 5 where a heater is pinched by heat insulating sheets is disposed on the inner surface of the lid side pinching plate 3. A plurality of intake holes 1a are formed in the main body side pinching plate 1. An intake pump 10 for taking-in air from the intake holes 1a is connected to the main body side pinching plate 1. The closed main body side pinching plate 1 and the lid side pinching plate 3 are arranged so as to be mutually locking possible by a lock mechanism. The lock mechanism is constituted of a slide member arranged in the lid side pinching plate 3 sliding- movement possibly and an engaged part 11b with an U-shaped cross section, which is arranged in the main body side pinching plate 3 and an engagement pawl is fixed to the tip of the slide member.