How to wash your wedding dress at home: effective ways

After the ending of the celebration, you can face the question: how to wash the wedding dress? After all, save it during the holiday, which lasts the whole day, it is unlikely to work. And it's good if you can easily remove stains from it. Dry cleaning can help, but it's not always convenient. Moreover, the result of the master is often not guaranteed, especially if the product has decorative elements.

Can I wash in the typewriter?

If there was a need to tidy up the wedding attire, you need to remember the basic rule: fresh stains can be removed easier than old ones. Next, determine the nature of the contamination. In the case when the lower part of the hem is slightly damaged, it must be cleaned. With more extensive spots, you have to erase the whole dress.

Some outfits can be cleaned at home in the washing machine. It depends on the material. For example, this method is suitable for things made from polyester. The product should be placed in a special bag for washing or, if it is not, in a pillowcase. The temperature is set at thirty degrees, the regime is delicate or manual. Washing powder is also better used for delicate fabrics. Preferably rinse. But if the dress has ornaments, then it can not be washed.

How do I wash my own clothes?

It's not easy to clean the festive dress at home, due to the fact that it is very heavy in the wet form. But still it is possible.

• If only the hem is stained, it should be soaked for several hours in water with detergent. Then gently wash the dirt with a soft brush and rinse.
• In order to bring all the dress to their normal appearance, fill the tub with cool water, pour in powder and put a thing in it. For some time you need to leave the product to soak the stains. After that, a good walk on its surface with a soft brush or sponge, paying special attention to the most polluted places. Then it must be rinsed. To do this, the outfit is hung on the hangers so that the stack is soapy. The water in the bath is changed to clean. Immerse the dress, hang again and pour fresh water. So repeat several times until completely clean.
• Another way to clean a festive dress at home is to hang it on your hangers and pour it out of the shower to get wet. Then gently rub the entire surface with a soap brush. Especially neatly apply with a corsage, so that it is not deformed. Wash off the detergent from top to bottom.

Advice

You can remove stains from wine with a hot soapy solution.

Separately attention should be paid to the zone of the bodice under the armpits, as often there remain traces of sweat. You can eliminate them by wiping the soiled areas with a sponge or a brush with soap.

Drying and ironing

So that the wedding dress does not lose its solemn appearance, it should be properly dried. Do not do this under direct sunlight or on a battery so that the fabric does not turn yellow. Do not fit and machine drying at home, since it is likely to damage and deform the material. It's better to leave it in a dark room. In this case, a synthetic outfit can be hung on the shoulders, carefully straightening. But the product made of cotton should be dried horizontally, spread out on a terry towel, which will absorb moisture. Also suitable for a bathroom grill: a thing is put to the glass part of the water, then hung on the hangers.

After washing the dress at home, it needs to be ironed. It is necessary to know from what material the thing is made in order to choose the appropriate temperature regime. In the iron there should be no water, it can leave marks on the white fabric.

Begin ironing from the bodice and sleeves, conveniently placing them on the ironing board. A skirt at home is more difficult to iron. They do this either on the board, if it's big, or by hanging the dress on the hangers so that the skirt is comfortably placed in place for ironing. In cases where the product is decorated with rhinestones, chains, lace, it is ironed from the wrong side, by placing a terry towel. If there is no decor, then you can do it from the outside.

To give a solemn alongside a neat appearance, dry cleaning is not necessary. This can be achieved at home with his own hands. But if the product has minor damage, then it will be difficult to do without specialists. In the studio, the shortcomings will be removed, they will be made invisible. After this dress can be given or hung in memory in the closet in a special case.