Caring And Cleaning Vintage Dresses

It is prestigious to adorn vintage dress in various parties and event. Wearing vintage of your grandma, mother or even older will surly make your stand distinctive in crowd. But as time passes some vintage dresses seems to get sensitive and starts losing it attractiveness. Vintage dress requires special and extra caring and cleaning in comparison to other fabric dress. Let’s see some essential useful caring and cleaning tips to maintain the beauty of your favorite vintage dress.

When it comes to vintage dresses the line which perfectly suits it is- “Handle with Care”. Yes vintage dresses needs to be handled with care. There are many laundries which provide specialized cleaning for vintage dresses. Instead of saving laundry bill send your special vintage dresses to professional cleaner. Make sure your vintage dress is washable. Vintage dress of rayon, nylon, silk etc and if included heavy works like beading, embroidery take it to dry clean. Some vintage dresses are not intended for washing machine, for such delicate hand wash is safe process. Use cool or lukewarm water to prevent fading. Before final cleaning do spot cleaning. Use liquid or dilute washing detergent instead of powder one for best results. Under the need of fabric of vintage dress and apply washing as per it. Like some fabric shrink or damage in water washing as it is advisable for dry clean wash.

Immediately after wearing vintage dress take it for washing. Gently rub slice of lemon on fresh food stain to get rid of it and make it easy to take it off with final washing. Vintage attires undesirably gets attracted to some unwanted odor like body odor, smoke odor etc. Before washing vintage dress allow it to pass maximum odor out naturally. Vinegar is best home remedy to get rid of smelly vintage dress. Put one cup or more (if odor is strong) of vinegar in hot water cover the lid with dress not touching the water and leave it for overnight. Maximum odor will vanish with some unwanted wrinkles too.

Don’t store in any plastic dry bag as it will create mildew on vintage dress, which will be tact to remove. You can store it in a cotton cover; the one which won’t impress color on dress.

As much as you can avoid using wire hangers, as it will stretch the shape of shoulder part and may even appear tears. Use padded or wooden hangers and roll or fold with care if vintage dress is really very delicate consisting of embellishment workings instead of hanging it. To avoid stretching of dress, fold dress and stack it in drawer. Avoid folding vintage dress if it is sensitive or delicate in terms of fabric.

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