When a woman wears her wedding dress as a bride, she becomes the happiest woman in the world. To have a wedding gown is a real happiness that you can touch. But after your wedding, do you know how to deal with your wedding dress in the future? How can you make sure that after several years, your bridal gown can be at the same good condition as it was at your wedding? Read this article carefully then you’ll get the answer from it.
First of all, you must know clearly the fabric of your bridal gown as well as the material of its accessories, such as the beadings and glitters. Besides, you should also know how to deal with emergency, for example, if your gown gets wet by wine or champagne, you should quickly put a towel under the dress, and then wash your dress with some white vinegar or detergent, then use water uptake paper to dry your dress.
After the wedding, you should clean your wedding dress as soon as possible. If the dirt lasts too long time on your dress, you may spend unnecessary extra time washing it. After a period of time, the dirt will get fixed or leave color on your dress, and it’s very hard to clean. For the dirt of food, it may attack bugs and the sweat will make the dress yellow.
The best way to clean the wedding dress is wet cleaning, because for the beadings and glitters of the dress, many chemical substances are harmful. The best method is to put the wedding dress into water with mild and neutral cleaner (please choose the cleaner according properly to the fabric) for a while, this can clean the stain of the red wine and grease. If you soak it longer, many invisible dirt, such as sweat and white wine, can be also cleaned. You must not use washing machine, or the dirt can maintain on the dress.
Some wedding dress dry-clean, especially for silk, acetate, rayon and wool. You must use filtered solvent to wash the dress, knowing exactly the location of the dirt in case the dirt gets left over.
The last step is to dry the dress. It should never be hung under the sun, because the dress will be fragile and the beadings and small decoration will drop off. You should turn the inside out to avoid the direct sunshine. The sun will cause the color fade in different level。 And you’d better not hang the dress; this can cause the deformation of the dress. Here I
Recommend to spread the dress on the table on the balcony. When the wedding dress get dried, we should keep it in somewhere cool and dry, for example, the closet. You should always remember not to hang the dress, because the weight will stretch the dress and also lead the deformation, even slit. What’s more, the most important, clean your hand before you touch your wedding dress.
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