<p>good story bookreader. Which reminds me that I have my mother’s dress. Now I will have to decide what to do with hers…
Probably pass it on to a sib and let them deal with it.</p>
<p>Anybody else getting the ad for wedding dresses on this page? They think if you throw out your old one, you must be in the market for a new one!</p>
<p>HA HA I just noticed</p>
<p>I’ve attended two weddings in recent months and both of those brides had ‘plans’ for their dresses. No keeping it in basements for daughters! One was going to put it up for sale on Ebay and one was going to dye it to wear for another occasion! These young brides are just not as sentimental as we were and that’s a good thing!</p>
<p>My dress just came in today! I would love to find a way to preserve mine in a way ill still be able to see it… The way my moms dress is in its box we are afraid to take it out for fear we would never get it back in, so no ones seen it since 1987. </p>
<p>I saw a girl on Pinterest put hers in a shadow box frame and mount it on the wall in her walk in closet…!</p>
<p>Thanks everyone! You’ve given lots of food for thought! I’m not tossing this dress just yet.<br>
dg5052, we are Jewish and that’s a very interesting thought about somehow incorporating the lace in either the chuppah or something else that’s being used in the wedding ceremony. My S#1 is getting married next summer.</p>
<p>For those who’ve said “donate it” for another bride…Not in this condition. It’s become totally off-white and ancient museum-like in appearance. I don’t think I can spend the money that it would take to restore this, even if that’s remotely possible. But, I’m not tossing it yet. I’m going to re-stuff it 
and put it back in the box until next spring when there is more wedding detail talk afoot. :D</p>
<p>Sounds like a good plan. I believe it’s fairly easy to clean/whiten lace yourself. Martha Stewart tells you how:</p>
<p>[How</a> do I clean a vintage veil? - Martha Stewart Weddings Fashion & Beauty](<a href=“http://www.marthastewartweddings.com/225766/how-do-i-clean-vintage-veil]How”>How do I clean a vintage veil?)</p>
<p>momof3sons, I have worked on a chuppah before with vintage fabrics…save the dress as well as the lace!</p>
<p>My mom used her wedding dress, which had been stored properly, but still had some stains, to make a christening dress for my daughter. It was quite beautiful and was made by my daughter’s god-mother. Very treasured.</p>
<p>If you are Jewish, the christening dress won’t work! Is there any pretty part…maybe with some lace, that you could just frame?</p>
<p>^^^yes, thumper, the christening dress idea wouldn’t be a big seller in the family.
NYMomof2-the lace seems not to have lost it’s color, it’s the dress beneath the lace.</p>
<p>My mom made my dress and I have it hanging in my closet. I have 4 daughters and I know none of them will wear it. (Wrong style, 80’s, long sleeved/puffy shoulders–and wouldn’t fit; none have the same body type.) It was stored at mom’s house for 10 years. H and I had a party and vow renewal for our 10th anniversary and I wore the dress which was still in fine shape. I also put it on for our 15th, 20th and 25th anniversaries, and it still fits. The dress was a little yellowed by the 25th. I took a chance and put it in my washing machine. It is satin and came out OK–took forever to iron, though.</p>
<p>My mom saved her dress, and she put it on and showed it to everyone during her 50th anniversary party. I’m saving mine for that and I hope it still fits by then–only 23 more years to go!
My mom had a beautiful confirmation dress and she let us play dress up with it and wear it for Halloween when we were kids.</p>
<p>I am very quietly hopeful that S2’s GF will be interested in my dress when the time comes. It’s very simple, very “sweet,” and when she looked at it a year or so ago, she said she liked it very much. She too wears very simple, unpretentious clothes and she is also my size. We’ll see, we’ll see. I don’t think this will be an issue for several years, unfortunately.</p>
<p>This thread got me curious about the status of my dress. I don’t think I’ve looked at it for 27 years, since we moved into our current house. It wasn’t professionally packed, but looked better than I expected. Some of the lace is a little yellowed, but not badly. The rest of the dress and the veil were wrinkled but not discolored. </p>
<p>I only have sons and I’m not sure that S1’s gf would want my dress (if that day ever comes), but the idea of using parts of the dress for the chuppah might be an idea.</p>
<p>I’m glad the lace still looks good, momof3sons!</p>
<p>I did not wear a real wedding dress. A friend who was a seamstress made my dress, which I more or less designed myself. I had a slip dress made of white silk/satin, with spaghetti straps, underneath (very similar to the dress that Carolyn Bessette Kennedy wore years later). The overdress was made of a sheer white fabric embroidered with a lily-of-the-valley motif. One edge of the fabric, which became the tea-length hem, was sort of scalloped and the embroidery became denser as it got closer to this edge. It had a natural, slightly gathered waist with a ribbon sash and the top was simple, front opening with many many tiny satin-covered buttons, 3/4-length sleeves, edges bound with satin. I had a few pink roses and baby’s breath in my hair but no veil. It was professionally packed so I imagine it’s in good shape. I don’t know how it would be used, though, no sign of impending marriage in either son (and the younger one is barely 15) and, although I was brought up Catholic, I’m now agnostic and so are the boys. So a christening dress is probably not in the future. </p>
<p>Speaking of christenings, this made me tear up:</p>
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<p>Give it to the local high school or college theatre department! You could get a tax writeoff and it would be put to good use!</p>