Wedding Gown Repairs
- 1). Bring a container of baby wipes to the dressing room and keep them handy. They can be use to blot out make-up or most other stains. Be sure not to rub, however, because that can push the make-up further into the fabric.
- 2). Keep some chalk or talcum powder handy if you have a silk dress that gets a stain on it. Dot the chalk on the stain, then brush the excess powder off. The chalk will temporarily cover the stain, although it will need to be dry cleaned after the wedding.
- 3). Get out ink stains using hair spray, which you probably have in abundance in the dressing room. Spray a white towel, cloth or cotton swab and gently dab the ink stain. The ink should lift off onto the cloth.
- 4). Use a needle and white thread to sew up any rips or tears that occur in the dress. Straps can come loose, buttons can fall off, or the zipper can get stuck and refuse to move. Simply thread your needle and sew them back on. If the zipper absolutely refuses to budge, the dress can be sewn shut with the bride inside the dress. Before resorting to such drastic measures, however, take the dress off and attempt to get the zipper to move very gently. Usually there is just some fabric stuck in the zipper teeth.
- 5). Dry water stains with a towel blotted on the fabric. A hair dryer can actually spread a stain. If you have a steamer handy, you can try steaming the spot to see if the water will lift out of the fabric.
- 6). Use dress tape for gaps or seams that come unraveled. Sometimes a dress will show more up top than the bride really wants, and sticky dress tape can help to hold the dress to the body. It can also be used to re-attach a hem that rips or straps that keep falling off the shoulder.