Washing vintage clothing?
What do you do if you know nothing about fabric?
Dry cleaners or handwash? I handwash all my vintage stockings and lingerie. But with the outfits, dry cleaning is getting expensive, can the detergents mess up the clothes, what do you do?
p.s all the clothes are from around the 40s/50s (I don't mind sending the suits for dry cleaning as I don't wear them often, but I like to wear the dresses). It's just a friend of mine washed a beauuuutiful dress on handwash setting and it faded like hell.
Do you think steam cleaning will work?
Use soap flakes (not a modern detergent as these contain brighteners and other things that will attack the dyes). Wash in hot water that has cooled slightly - you'll need hotter water to dissolve the soak flakes to begin with.
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