Wedding Gowns

Clean And Preserve Wedding Gowns

The wedding day is over; the last echoes of the celebrations are gone, too. You are left now with the scent of the event that is still imprinted in the white wedding gown that is hanging on the outside of your wardrobe. You haven’t put it yet inside; it looks dirty and you wouldn’t like to hang it next to other clean outfit; not before you clean it. But judging by the fabrics that is made of, you have to try and clean it properly, you don’t want to do something wrong, in this way to assist at its damaging. You need to find the adequate way to clean and preserve wedding gown, since you choose to keep it till you further decide what to do with it. And besides it is too soon to get rid of it; it is still there, that nostalgic feeling of being queen for a day.

But no matter what you plan on doing with it in the future, either give it for sale or lend to someone who wants to wear it for a one night stand, you still have to keep it in your wardrobe in state of cleanliness. Due to its demanding fabrics, you can not simply put it in the washing machine, turn the program for silk clothes and press the button. No way! It will lead only to have it ruined in a matter of minutes, so what to do? You go for the internet searching, in the attempt to find some tips for clean and preserve wedding gown.

The Internet engine carries you through plenty of websites promoting several cleaning houses that perform in a professional way a perfect cleaning, but yet their services seem to be too expensive to you. Finally you find a site that delivers some advice to help you clean your wedding dress. The process takes some time to check first the dress for the dirty parts; you are surprised to see how much fabrics your dress encompasses. While wearing it you couldn’t have told, you were proud of its long rich train that now looked so dirty that the brilliant white had faded away into an ugly grey; you must have brushed with it all the surfaces you’d passed by.

Following the instructions you start cleaning the dirty parts with the proper soaps not before soaking them into warm water for one hour or so. Then with a help of a used toothbrush you gently scrub the dress linings and it looks like you are satisfied of the result, but to be sure you fix a solution of  Oxy Clean and sink the surfaces you have brushed to a better cleansing. At the end of this process you place the whole dress in a bathtub filled with warm water and rinse it, repeating the procedure till the water looks clean. Lining the dress is another thing that needs carefulness; you have to put the dress on a net that is fixed at both ends allowing the bulk of water to drip away. When this is over, only then it is safe to let it dry hanging.

To preserve it you need first to do some pressing in a cautious way using low temperatures and a pressing cloth. Then the dress is ready to be covered in a plastic bag, large enough to comprise the beautiful train in order not to get wrinkled and place it in your wardrobe till its day will come again to lighten up another bride’s day.