You can get about similar effect by hanging it in the bathroom while taking a steamy hot shower. I hang something wrinkly in the bathroom a few days before, and by the time of the event, its ready to go. Try putting the dress in a dryer on air or the coolest setting possible with a wrung out hand towel. Tumble for about 10 minutes and hang up immediately. Of course, a dry cleaner/tailor shop can just press a garment without cleaning it.
Try it. Then again, the spray wrinkle removers are great. Fact, downy has one called Wrinkle Release. That’s right! Just spray and after that smooth fabrick with your hands while its still damp. Notice that the moisture spray doesn’t hurt the fabric in general. For the most part there’re steam gizmo’s out there that work great or you can use the steam setting on your iron and hold it up to the dress and move it up and down slowly without uching it. That said, however, have you tried to steam it, I’d be afraid to use an iron to iron the dress after looking at the picture. All the best. Take it to a dry cleaner and ask them to press it for you, So in case none of that works and if you don’t have a friend from whom you can borrow a steamer.
With the iron directly against the acetate, I hung up the gown, and began to gently steam over the creases at the gathers as best I could in midair.
I steamed/ironed until I felt the front looked nice enough, hereafter quit while I was ahead.
Now look, the fabric relaxed enough, and I was super careful to not leave the iron in any one place for around two seconds. At least I know that, in the future, I can use this method to look great in a recycled dress, it almost what’s needed is indeed light steam and pressure. Fabulous! I hereafter switched to ironing the cotton wel on p of acetate on the reverse, and the wrinkles began disappearing.
I placed the wel on the front side of the fabric and ironed a test patch.
The wrinkles were gone but the weave of the tea wel was visible, imprinted on the acetate fabric!
I found this page, read all the advice, and did the following. I got a perfect cotton tea wel from the kitchen and changed the iron setting to 5, and made sure there was water in the iron. My daughter has worn her prom dress and she got food or something on the bottom of it that is noticable. Needless to say, she has another prom to go to this weekend and no time for a dry cleaning. A well-known fact that is. I need would only be out my $ 10 investment if this went badly. I have what’s undoubtedly someone’s old 100percentage acetate prom dress. Oftentimes not able to afford dry cleaning, To be honest I made the decision to launder it with Woolite on the delicate cycle. I found it in a thrift store and bought it to sing in at a concert.
There were lots and quite a few gathers at the waist, I ironed hundreds of the dress.
I stopped.
That said, this worked well but was incredibly tricky. With the handkerchief between the iron and the acetate, I went and found a fine cotton handkerchief, and went back to ironing the front side of the fabric. Then the iron is large to get into all those gathers, and I was beginning to iron in new wrinkles. Notice that I do professional alterations. So that’s what I would try. You can get it pressed only at a local dry cleaner or tailor, if you don’t need to try this. Acetate is an awful fabric. Some home models that may do it are by Rowenta. You could use a tea wel or a pillowcase. Considering the above said. Then the trick is you need pressure and steam. Be sure to TEST first.
You will need to use light steam and a low temp iron.
Our professional iron will do this.
Have a safe and fun prom. Acetate will change colors -let it cool and it should’ve been fine. You should take it into account. Get a COTTON press cloth. Borrow a perfect iron that can steam on a low temp if you don’t have one yourself. Notice, try this on the most inconspicuous spot. You can’t get it hot or wet. Considering the above said. Next, lay the skirt portion on your ironing board. Take a clean cloth and soak it in hot water. Although, let the warm steam from your shower loosen the wrinkles. Try hanging the dress in the bathroom, before you spend a dime. Wring out the cloth and start wiping the dress fabric with the hot, damp cloth. Use long strokes and turne the garment until you’ve handled all of it. It really wasn’t working, To be honest I had tried earlier to iron on the reverse side, on the iron’s acetate setting.
It was yards and yards of skirt over crinoline.
What remained were yards of wrinkled fabric.
There were no moisture stains and the original stain that necessitated the washing was now gone, It dried beautifully. Notice, whenever smoothing out the fabric by hand, I removed it promptly from the washer and hung it to dry. I just had less visible wrinkles everywhere. Try hanging it in the bathroom consequently running a long hot ‘shower the’ steam from the shower should relax the wrinkles. Most cleaners will do a ‘press only’ if you request it. I’m not sure of the cost but Undoubtedly it’s less than a full cleaning. Anyways, I turn the water on hot fully, close the curtain, close the door, wait 8 minutes, and remove the gown. It has to be hung on a padded or plastic hanger to begin with, and as perfectly aligned as possible. While making certain that the spray from the shower can’t reach the fabric, I hang my formal dresses from the ceiling in the smallest bathroom, over the tub.