Ruined Dress

[chicklet]

Accident with special dress. Stored in clothing protector which was burned with iron. Plastic has melted onto my dress. Can anyone suggest any methods of removal.

 

[Gary_M]

Sorry to hear about your dress

I have never tried this, but I believe that you can use the 'brown paper bag and iron' (seems to work for many things )

Basically, you just put the bag over the melted plastic area, and run a hot iron over it. The plastic should stick to the bag. Oh, put the 'dull' side of the bag on the plastic, and remove as much of the plastic as possible before doing this.

As I have never tried this, it might me worth you deliberately melting some plastic onto an old cloth or something, and testing it on this first

Good luck

Gary

 

[chicklet]

thanks Gary, Will try that!

 

[Nestor_Kelebay]

I guess everything would depend on what the dress was made of and what the plastic was made of.

I regularily remove stains from clothing with acetone, which won't harm any fabric that I know of except acrylics. Nail polish remover will typically either be made of acetone or contain a high percentage of acetone.

Test regular nail polish remover (not the solvent free stuff) on an inconspicuous spot on that dress. If it doesn't harm the fabric, then turn the fabric inside out and apply the nail polish remover to the back side of the fabric so that it wicks through the fabric and comes into contact with the plastic that's stuck to the fabric. If it dissolves the plastic at that interface, you should be able to peel the plastic off the fabric in one chunk.

Also, acetone is soluble in water, so if you can dissolve that plastic in nail polish remover, you can wash it away while it's still dissolved by running the area wet with acetone underwater.

Ethyl benzene dissolved polyethylene. If you know what the plastic is made of, Google "dissolves __________" where you put the kind of plastic in the space, and you should find web sites that will tell you what solvent will dissolve that kind of plastic.