This week at Value Village I came across this green lace Indian dress, with a gorgeous, heavily embellished bottom. I've been trying hard to resist buying stuff of late, since I already have more than ten lifetimes worth of fabrics stashed away. But this dress was very cheap, and then take another 30% off because it was Senior's Day, so it followed me home....
I like to wash anything I buy second-hand, but wasn't sure how colour-fast the bright pink flowers would be, so I dissolved a bit of laundry detergent in a bowl of warm water and just submerged one of the motifs near the top of the dress into it. Then left it standing there for a couple of hours. Nothing happened, so it was safe to hand-wash. After rinsing, I ran it through the spin cycle in my washing machine just to get most of the excess water out, then hung it up to dry.
It needed a lot of clothespins because it was so heavy....
It needed a lot of clothespins because it was so heavy....
It will make a gorgeous ball gown for one of my bigger girls. It would have been nice if it would work for an MSD, but the band along the bottom is just too wide and heavy.
Now to just find some time to actually make gowns out of some of these Value Village finds!
Now to just find some time to actually make gowns out of some of these Value Village finds!
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