How to preserve a wedding dress
How to preserve a wedding dress
Before wedding, wedding dress should be carefully ironing if needed. Hang the dress on a clothes rack, use steam ironer and softly iron the dress.
After the wedding, the dress should be carefully preserved. However, if you easily take it to street dry-cleaning stores you will be repented forever as wedding dress’s preservation is quite different to the other precious garments. Is it difficult to clean wedding dresses by self? Following tips will tell you.
Firstly, ask the seller what fabrics the wedding dress is and is there any particular care for embellishment such as beads and sequins etc..
Secondly, washing wedding dresses is the most important part. Wet cleaning is the key, because embellishments like beads, sequins, crystal are easily eroded by chemical substance when dry cleaning. The best way to clean stains in the dress is to soak the dress in water with temperate and neutral cleanser and soaking for more time, invisible stains like perspiration stain, white-wine stain will be removed too.
Thirdly, when the dress is clean and dry, it is time to save it. Wedding dresses should be preserve in a white sheet and put it in where is cool and drying such as a closet or under the bed. Remember, DON’T hang up the dress as a wedding dress is quite heavy and the skirt will be loose or even torn for long-time hanging.
Fourthly, lay the dress flat and in its inside when drying up. The dress cannot be dried directly under the sun because color of the dress will be damaged by blazing sun.
Finally, Inspect your dress on each anniversary to check for any discolored areas or missed stains and to allow your dress to “breathe.”
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