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help-no starch for christening gown

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  • ben500
    ben500 Posts: 23,192 Forumite
    Mind you if you use the sugar method and the buffet turns out crap you can always eat the christening gown
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  • ben500
    ben500 Posts: 23,192 Forumite
    How did you get on with your gown?
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  • Olliebeak
    Olliebeak Posts: 3,167 Forumite
    ben500 wrote: »
    Cut a couple of potatos in half, leave them for twenty mins or so, the thin film of milky white liquid which forms on the surface can be scraped off carefully, two potatos {four halves} should supply enough to add to cold clean water and mix in dip gown in and iron dry, not too hot or you will discolour the gown.

    I remember my nan doing this when grandad had been on strike for a while and they were really short of money - it does work :grin:. So I presume the rice-water idea works on the same principal :T
  • hardpressed
    hardpressed Posts: 2,099 Forumite
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    Does anyone remember the paper nylon petticoats we had in the 60's, we soaked them in sugar water to make them stiff, funnily I don't ever remember them being sticky.
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