/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

Dear anons: you are awesome and your advice has totally saved one of my favorite dresses from ruin!! Thank you!!!

After a successful test run on a waist tie, I would up soaking the dress in a bathtub full of cold water and a small amount of Woolite, which is the detergent I usually use for hand-washing lolita clothes. The water turned a deep lavender-grey but none of the excess dye stuck to the dress. The color-run stains did not come out initially, so I applied some Oxy-clean (the gel stick kind) and let that sit for fifteen minutes, then soaked again for another fifteen and rinsed the whole thing out with cold water. Success!

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The dry cleaner didn't make it worse but it's wasn't any better, either. Given how much I paid (I had to sign a waver before they'd take the dress, indicating that I'd pay whether or not they got the stains out >.<) I would definitely recommend using home removal techniques first, especially for color-run stains. It seems like the trick is mostly to give the dye enough water to disperse into, so it doesn't just stick to the fabric.