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dress cleaning

  • 20-12-2010 10:51am
    #1
    cheesey1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 182 ✭✭


    I have a wedding over the Christmas and just noticed this morning that the top of the dress has like a water mark, or a drink mark on it, its a silky fabric and I don't have time to send it to the drycleaners and also the rest of the dress isn't dirty. Is it OK to try and clean it with a damp cloth?

    Thanks.


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  • #2
    Twee.
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 9,722 Mod ✭✭✭✭Twee.


    What kind of fabric is it?
    If you were gonna do a damp cloth job try it first in an inconspicuous place, where you won't see it if it goes a bit awry!


  • #3
    lightglow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18 ✭lightglow


    I have a lot of silk and satin dresses that are supposed to be dry clean only, but I always wash them. In the machine on the handwash cycle with some persil detergent, the one for silk and wool with the pink lid.

    They've always came out perfect!


  • #4
    goat2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,939 ✭✭✭goat2


    i collected a three quarter lenght caot and a little silky dress from the cleaners today, they charged me forty euro, my jaw dropped, i went to the cleaners, but i reakon i was taken to the cleaners.is that a proper charge, i will not be going back there again


  • #5
    lainey316
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 902 ✭✭✭lainey316


    They may have charged the dress as an evening dress, which can be up to €25. Some cleaners are total rip-offs tho - the two on Upper Baggot St are particularly expensive. €26 - 30 would be closer to the average.


  • #6
    cheesey1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 182 ✭✭cheesey1


    lightglow wrote: »
    I have a lot of silk and satin dresses that are supposed to be dry clean only, but I always wash them. In the machine on the handwash cycle with some persil detergent, the one for silk and wool with the pink lid.

    They've always came out perfect!


    Unfortunately the dress is two different kinds of material, the bottom part is like a skirt and the top is silk do you think it would be Ok to maybe handwash the top part withe silk and wool detergent?


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  • #7
    moco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 972 ✭✭✭moco


    I'd wash the whole thing as the silk part is fine with the special detergent so it obviously won't do the skirt part any harm.

    If your machine has no handwash cycle then do it by hand but honestly, you should have no problems. I always bung my silks and wools all in the machine.


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