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and cause it to wear away.
“Beads will change color if not preserved properly,” Saidman says. “They generally turn black and start to run all over the fabric.”
“Anytime you’ve got more variation in the materials you do complicate the care, because what the pearls will need to protect them may not be what the fabric needs to protect it,” Willman says.
She cites a problem with a dress that belonged to Eleanor Roosevelt. The pearls are shedding their iridescent coating and creating a yellowing halo wherever the tiny ornaments are sewn onto the dress.
“It’s physically a different composition, and you go to store it or you go to clean it, and you’re going to have problems,” she says.
The average gown presented to Imperial for treatment is between two and five years old, Saidman says, and the company preserves many gowns of the 30-year variety because 40 to 45 percent of the brides that contact Imperial want their mothers’ gowns preserved.
A bride who wishes to wear an heirloom gown should don significant undergarments to create a barrier between herself and the dress, Willman says.
She also suggests “the precaution that she should not be as active in her motions as she ordinarily might be in her everyday clothes” because the older fabric will be more vulnerable to stress.
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