Still, shopping for vintage wedding dresses can be easier said than done since you have to contend with various issues like stains, rust and missing parts. Not to worry though if you have your heart set on a vintage wedding dress with these tips.
Check Your Measurements
Vintage dresses are often sized differently than the more modern clothes you shop for. As such, you should be armed with a full set of body measurements, your measurements of course, from your arms to your shoulders.
Better yet, buy a corset or a girdle and put it on before fitting on the dresses. This is because most women for whom the dresses were made often wore corsets and girdles to achieve a sculpted look. Besides, it will look good to have curves on your wedding day!
Check for Stains
Some stains are harder to remove than others. If you think that a stain will not come off and it shows in a very visible area, then you probably should just walk away and look for other vintage wedding dresses.
Some tips to help you remove stubborn stains from your dream vintage wedding dresses, which is assuming that it can be removed without going to a dress restoration expert of course.
* Place your dress in a bathtub filled with either lukewarm or cold water mixed with a gentle liquid detergent. Be sure to remove metal and plastic accessories first as these can add to your restoration problems. Soak it for at least 24 hours to loosen stubborn stains and lessen yellowish discolorations.
* Remove stains with a sudsy spray solution and then gently brushing them with a toothbrush. Just don't apply a club soda solution as it will worsen the stains, even make them settle more into the dress.
Whatever you do, avoid rubbing vigorously on the fabric. It can be fragile that any drastic wringing, rubbing, pressing and cleaning performed on it can make it fall apart. And then where would you be? Perhaps, you will be saying goodbye to anything vintage, wedding dresses or not, and that would be a shame.
Check for Missing Parts
Some vintage dresses may be older than your grandmother so checking for missing parts - buttons, embroidery, ribbons, and other stuff - is a must. If you can find a store that sells vintage accessories, it will be better for your restorative efforts.
If you don't have any knowledge of such a store, try looking for possible replacements. Some stores may even carry reproductions of vintage accessories that you can use to cover up the missing parts.
If you have your bridal heart set on vintage wedding dresses but can't find one that meets your requirements in terms of it being able to withstand wear for more than 8 hours, then you can always ask to have it reproduced. There is no shame in that and you can even pass it to your daughter!
Shopping For Wedding Dresses
You will probably spend a lot of time to arrange your wedding attire. This is because everyone will be looking at you when you walk down the aisle. You will need to make yourself a perfect bride. To this end you will also need to make your wedding attire perfect. Of course you will first of all thinking about your wedding gown. As a matter of fact, the wedding shoes will just be as important.
Every bride will agree it is full of fun when you are shopping for your wedding shoes. Yet it can also be very frustrating. There are just too many choices and you may find it hard to decide on the pair of shoes you should choose. In fact, there are some practical considerations and you may choose your wedding shoes by considering these issues:
Without any surprise, you have to choose your wedding shoes such that they will match your wedding dress. This is probably the baseline when you are choosing your wedding shoes. There is no point to make the shoes not matching your wedding gown.
When you say that you need to search for a pair of shoes which matches your wedding dress, you have to consider two issues. The first issue is of course the style of the shoes and the style of the wedding gown. It is very important to make sure that the styles match. On the other hand, the shoes you choose may also affect the size of the dress you choose.
For example, if you are going for a pair of high heel wedding shoes, you may need to choose a longer dress since it will make the dress look shorter when you put the high heel shoes on. As a result, the best scenario is that you can try the shoes with the wedding dress on. This can make sure that they will perfectly match each other. In this case you may probably need to purchase your wedding gown and shoes in the same bridal shop.
You should also consider the height of you and the groom before you purchase the shoes. For example, if you are of the same height of the groom, choosing a pair of high heel shoes will certainly make you look taller than your fiance. Of course this may not be a real problem. But you have to consider it before you buy. If you are already a lot taller than the groom, wearing a pair of high heel shoes will you even taller. In some cases you may not want to be like that. If this is the case you may consider not choosing the high heel shoes.
One last thing is that, you have to make sure that you feel comfortable when you are wearing the wedding shoes. You will need to wear it for the whole day. You will be very painful if you are wearing a pair of shoes that you do not feel comfortable with. If it is possible, you may even want to wear the shoes for a few nights at home so that you will not feel uncomfortable when you are wearing it on your wedding. Of course you should never buy the shoes if you feel extremely uncomfortable when you are wearing them.
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