Simple Ways To Look After All Your Ballroom Dresses

When you wear your ballroom dresses time after time, you may think that it is inevitable that they are going to start to look less than their best, so that you can no longer wear them to the most important events. You may be surprised to learn that your dresses can indeed maintained to a very high standard. With a little care and thought, they can still look fresh and serve you well for years to come.

Firstly, your ballroom dresses need to be hung in a dry place with a good amount of space all around them to protect against creasing. Ideally they should each have a protective plastic cover. A dark-colored cover is much better than a clear one as this will help put a stop to the material fading from exposure to the sunlight. Just to be sure, keep them away from direct natural light too. Leaving the cover's zip unfastened enables the dress to keep aired, helping to ensure that the dress does not grow to be damp and mold to develop.

Moving on from how to store our ballroom dance dresses, let's now examine the best way to care for them in terms of keeping them clean and well-presented. The care instructions supplied by the manufacturer or your dress-maker are an excellent place to start.

So, what's the best way to wash your dresses, assuming that they are suitable to wash? Should you use a washing machine- or hand-wash? Generally-speaking, Lycra and georgette are suitable to be machine-washed as is much practice dancewear, but only if there are no embellishments or other bits that might drop off in the wash. Whichever way you choose to wash your dresses, to avoid shrinkage, it is best to opt for a very cool temperature. No more than 30 degrees Centigrade should be all right.

Pre-wash solutions can be good for heavy stains. You have to be particularly watchful if the dress has dark-colored satin bias binding as this can stain the fabric. So you have to be meticulous in making certain that the binding and the material do not come into contact with one another when still damp. A little fiddly and time-consuming, but really worth the effort.

If you are wanting to know exactly why you should not wash your ballroom dresses if they have any sort of stones or decorations, then think about what can happen. First of all, glue can break down and your embellishments fall off. What is more, your stones could ruin the fabric of your dress and indeed, they could very well become lackluster during laundering. It is not worth taking the risk.

Ballroom dresses can be freshened up by hanging them in a steamy environment. This will also help to even out creases. If a dress requires more than a steam, you could cautiously wash the body suit by hand but with the dress turned inside out. Don't forget to use a mild soap and cold water. Rinse in cold water and do not wring the dress out before hanging it up to dry. If you have had to wash your ballroom dress, permit it to drip dry above the bath. If the dress is exceptionally weighty when wet, it might be a good plan to drape it over a clothes horse. This will help to prevent the material from stretching. Bear in mind that fringe dresses can take three to four days to dry properly! So don't leave it till the last minute to wash it, if you need it for a special event.

Finally, you should be very wary of ironing any part of your ballroom dress. Stretch fabrics should not be ironed at all. Otherwise, use a very cool temperature, especially with synthetic fabrics which can easily burn.

Hopefully, you have found this advice helpful. With a little thought about storage, cleaning and ironing your ballroom dresses , you will find that they keep their initial beauty much longer and no matter how much you invested in them, it will have been money well spent.