<p>A laundry pressing device for fastening laundry by a simple structure to prevent the laundry from dropping from laundry poles. The laundry pressing device has a chain (27) placed on the laundry poles (22) so as to cross them and formed in an elongate shape long in one direction, and the device fastens the laundry (32) hanged on the laundry poles (22) by pressing them to the pole (22) side. The chain (27) has, at predetermined positions, weights (30) hanging below a pair of laundry poles (22). At both ends of the chain (27) are clips (28) as fastening members fastened to the laundry poles (22).</p>