Mothers Wedding Gown

This is a beautiful wedding gown from 1974. The gown was originally preserved (by another company) right after the wedding so there was only minimal yellowing present. Also, because it was preserved, there were no problem areas that developed over time as is the case with many gowns that are not properly cleaned before storage. Note that is is a cream gown with white lace (a look that is very popular today) and not a white gown.

When the new bride came in to view her mothers old gown, she was very excited and couldn't wait to wear it on her wedding day!

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1950's Wedding Dress Restoration

It's hard to believe this is the same wedding gown. This particular wedding gown was purchased in 1953 at Hudsons and has been kept in an attic since the wedding.

This vintage garment restoration was particularly difficult because of the detioration of the material due to its storage. The armpits and seams were already treadbare and other areas were weak as well. This limited the range of cleaning possibilities, although we were still able to get the wedding gown much whiter and cleaner.

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Two Old Dresses

Today i have two older dresses that we cleaned. Unfortunately I wasn't able to snap any before pics because we got to work just as soon as they came in. The dress to the left is a vintage garment from the 1940's. The challenges with this dress were the inside seams not all being finished off and a couple of yellow 'age' spots. Typically these spots were not visible when the garment was stored away and consist of either a sugary substance or an oil/grease spot (such as from your hands). As you can see this dress cleaned up nicely and with proper handling didn't pose any major difficulties to our experienced staff.

This dress is a 1960's Wedding Dress. If you look closely at the dress you can see that it isn't solid pink, but rather white and pink striped. The difficult part about this dress is that it is actually a white dress with hand painted pink stripes. Upon testing with traditional cleaning methods we quickly determined that dry cleaning or wet cleaning under normal circumstances would quickly revert this to a white dress with no stripes. We were able to come up with a method to both clean the dress and preserve the garments original look. This vintage garment restoration was made possible by our diverse experience with wedding gowns. 

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