Wedding Dress cleaned at Dry Cleaners

squeaky

meer53 wrote: »

Very 60's though aren't they ?

Aye, but useful.

My house opens directly onto the street. My neighbour looks in through the window pretty much every time she passes.

As long as there are no lights on inside the house net curtains are very good at blocking the view in.

unholyangel

squeaky wrote: »

Aye, but useful.

My house opens directly onto the street. My neighbour looks in through the window pretty much every time she passes.

As long as there are no lights on inside the house net curtains are very good at blocking the view in.

If she passes at the same time regularly, stand in the window and (after learning it of course) use sign language to tell her that she's a nosey moo and to mind her own.

Failing that, just go stand outside her house staring in and see how long it takes her to come out and ask if you're ok. Then reply saying "Well you seem to have such a keen interest in staring through my window, I thought I'd return the favour. I must admit I hadn't done it till now because I thought it was considered ill mannered".

trukdiver

unholyangel wrote: »

I don't mean to sound overly harsh but.......did you carry out a spot test on the dress with the fake tan to make sure it wouldnt stain and if it did, it could be cleaned?

At the end of the day, any successful claim you may have will rest on you being able to prove they were negligent and that the fake tan would have came off if they had not been negligent.

The fake tan contains a mixture of pigments. It sounds as though the cleaning chemicals have worked on some of them but not others, leaving the pink colour as a residue. They did warn you...

You can get a similar effect with paint from different manufacturers fading in the sun, eg a resprayed door can end up looking a different colour from the rest of the car - even though they matched originally!

meer53

squeaky wrote: »

Aye, but useful.

My house opens directly onto the street. My neighbour looks in through the window pretty much every time she passes.

As long as there are no lights on inside the house net curtains are very good at blocking the view in.

All my neighbours look in whilst passing my house, i usually wave like a looney

pinkteapot

I'd be trying to negotiate for a part-refund on the cleaning cost but, since they warned you they may not get all the stains out, I'm not sure how far you'll get. If the stains are the same size as they were before and just a different colour now, I agree with the others that the dress is no more ruined than when you took it in.

I've been to a few weddings now where the bride's dress has fake tan stains under the arms by the end of the day. Fake tans and white sleeveless tops just don't mix.

It's still your wedding dress with all the memories that come with it. Did they/will they box it for you after cleaning? Mine was put in a box with a flap over the lid and a plastic 'window' underneath, so I can see part of it without taking it out. The way it's arranged, I can see the front of the bodice but not the sides so stains under the arms wouldn't show in that sort of box.

squeaky

unholyangel wrote: »

If she passes at the same time regularly, stand in the window and (after learning it of course) use sign language to tell her that she's a nosey moo and to mind her own.

Failing that, just go stand outside her house staring in and see how long it takes her to come out and ask if you're ok. Then reply saying "Well you seem to have such a keen interest in staring through my window, I thought I'd return the favour. I must admit I hadn't done it till now because I thought it was considered ill mannered".

I've considered catching her and telling her that the next time she looks in she'll see something really horrible and ugly...

..then fit some of that half silvered fablon that traders use in the back windows of their vans so people can't see what's worth nicking.

I did have a quick google for the stuff but couldn't find any.


Anyway... back on topic...

OP - have you tried the net curtain cleaner yet?

Hintza

twinkel_toez wrote: »

There was no mention of any chemical reaction .....

How do you think dry cleaning works? It is all done by a chemical reaction.

Mupette

I use the net curtain whitener on anything that needs brightening up that was white.. works fine with socks, undies etc, although warning that the material around the bra is not the same as the cup and that's what does discolour.


And i use nets as i too am on a road where people could look in, i may not have much but i don't like people looking in.

gabby66

Dry cleaning uses solvents to clean as opposed to the water soluble products used to wet clean. Many people misunderstand dry cleaning as a solvent usually takes longer to evaporate then water, because of this a wet cleaned item would nearly always dry quicker.

As the OP has now inspected the dress I wonder if the staining is still the same in size and shape, its simply the fake tan has changed colour? If so it's possible a further clean would further reduce the stains or remove them completely.

However if the pink staining is around the area of the original marks but has spread a little I fear these results will be permanent.

If the staining has spread a little it's important to find out how the dress was cleaned before drawing any conclusions.

The OP and other posters seem to be concluding this would be due to a reaction between the cleaning solution and the fake tan. The point I have tried to make is it's more likely to be the fabric (not the tanning solution) that has adversely reacted to the cleaning process. If this is the case it would be due to a spot cleaner being used on the affected areas of the dress either before or after an overall clean.

This is why its important to find out exactly how the dress was cleaned.