How do you Take Care Of your Evening Dresses

Did you think about your evening dresses one day since you were a little girl? You may even have dressed as a prince when playing dress-up. You pictured yourself and dreamed about being swept by your prince charming. As soon as you actually became ready to wear a evening dress, you did research or fell in love with that, just beautiful when you saw it in a picture. Now it is yours! The Christmas day is coming, it is the time that you can wear your beautiful evening dresses. However, after the Christmas party, how do you deal with them?

Step 1
Ideally, the first step after the completion of party is the proper cleaning and preservation of your evening dresses. It will prevent dress from yellowing, creasing, molding or mildewing, light and dust.
Step 2
After cleaning is done, make sure to keep it in a clean place and prevent from food, pen and other such stuffs. Keep your hands clean while handling the dress and do not wear any jewelry that could snag the dress fabric. It’s ideal to wear fine cotton gloves.
Step 3
Do not simply wrap your and keep in a plastic bag or in a box. It does not provide good protection.
Step 4
Take out all pins, wrappings and hangers from the box you are going to place your dress. Also wrap the dress with the tissue paper and also keep the tissue between every fold. Choose a reliable and archival quality box for your dress. Before shutting the lid of the box, check whether all fabric is covered by acid free tissue.
Step 5
Keep that box in a dark, dust free area where air circulation is proper. Never store it in a shed, garage, in an attic, against an external wall, unheated loft place. Save it from a high humidity, dampness and condensation.
Step 6
In a regular period of time frame unpack your evening dresses to reduce the risk of permanent creasing. Again do repacking and keep it back. After doing all this also if problem comes, seek advice from a professional textile conservator.
The steps mentioned in the above passage will help you care your evening dresses and avoid the evening dresses’ damage.