How to Wear Corset Back Lace Wedding Dresses

Do you love the corset back lace wedding dresses and formals, but don’t like the idea of lacing it up? Corset back lace wedding dresses don’t have a zipper. They have loops and a lacing cord, usually make of the same fabric as the dress. Underneath is a modesty panel, a solid panel that snaps in with clear snaps to hide your back and bra. Wearing the modesty piece is optional, if you have bra cups sewn into the lace wedding dresses, you may not want to wear the piece underneath. The modesty piece may be in two pieces. The lower piece is sewn in on one side and snaps on the other side. This piece covers the hip and low waist area so it hides your behind and the top of your optional crinoline. The top piece snaps in or out. If your lace wedding dresses are strapless, the modesty piece is boned to stay up. Line up the lacings so that they are even.

If you are wearing the modesty piece in the lace wedding dresses, have someone snap it inside the lace wedding dresses. If the lace wedding dresses have an inner elastic waist band, attach the band and adjust for comfort and make sure it hits at the waist line. Start lacing the lace wedding dresses at the TOP of the bodice. Have the person wearing the lace wedding dresses put their hands at their waistline and push back toward the lacing, but not enough to distort the fit of the top. This will make the lace wedding dresses stay in place and your waist look smaller. Lace the gown and tighten the laces as you lace it down.

There you go, professional tips to making getting into your elegant lace wedding dresses easier and faster!

Cleaning Vintage Wedding Dresses

How to safely restore the white to the vintage wedding dresses depends on the fabric. It also depends on your budget, professional restoration is pricey and skyrockets the more detailing like beading, flounces, netting and/or lace, etc, there is on the vintage wedding dresses.

Because even the ‘simple cotton vintage wedding dresses’ will usually have fragile detailing like embroidery and/or beading, it’s best to do this by hand in a sparkling clean and well rinsed bathtub. The large space of the bathtub will ensure plenty of room for the many yards of fabric in even the simplest vintage wedding dresses to be completely covered with water-the fabric should be able to float loosely during the soaking and washing. Use a very gentle squeezing from neckline to hem, over and over and over again to work the soap and whitening agent through the vintage wedding dresses. Drain the wash water, gently squeezing the excess soapy water as the water drains. Refill the tub with cool water and gently swish and squeeze the vintage wedding dresses in the rinse water-repeat the draining and refilling the tub until the rinse water is no longer soapy when you gently swish and squeeze the vintage wedding dresses. Squeeze as much of the excess water as you can from the vintage wedding dresses, then put sections of the vintage wedding dresses between thick absorbent towels and press to remove more of the water. Then place the vintage wedding dresses on a flat surface out of the sun.

If the modest vintage wedding dresses are silk, natural fiber satin, or a synthetic like polyester, rayon or taffeta, really your best hope for restoring the white is a professional dry cleaner who specifically advertises expertise in restoring antique and vintage wedding dresses. Again, this can be an expensive option but is the best and usually safest way to ensure your vintage wedding dresses are wearable for your wedding.