Fashion Tragedies / Damage Control

[eugenius]

Light peach-colored plain tee; no design; rather boring; useful for layering....spilled a glass of red wine down the front...now, it does have a design to it & it's not so boring anymore..Yes!

 

[Pastry]

also i had the perfect pair of gloves and left the on the bus

also to softgrey who's lost her share of gloves..mine disappear like socks (which the washing machine seems to feed on). i'm really sad about one knitted elbow-lenght glove i lost.

also i've been remembering my trip to nyc a lot lately..
me and my friend kate were at the whitney biennial, just looking at some art when her necklace suddenly broke.
everyone stared of course...it could have been a performance art piece in itself.
the necklace was quite big..a lot of white and blue beads. whatever we could salvage (with people's help also) we did, the rest we replaced with new beads.

 

[Sephora_Socialite]

My friends dog ate several pairs of my shoes. I don't know which..but I'm thinking it ate the expensive ones since those are the ones on the floor of my room where it could get it and not on the space saving rack. I havent gone to look yet.

 

[MUXU]

i brought this purple and black strip vintage ports sweater-dress and one day..my grandma found it lying around on a chair in my room and figured it was dirty so she threw it in the washing machine than the dryer and when it came out..it shrunk into this tiny little sweater

though i can still wear it..it's not the same anymore..i miss the sweater dress..i dont like sweaters

edit:
im pretty careful with the clothes i love...so i dont remember many tragedies

 

[goosemaster]

I bought a pair of leather pants. And now I realize that they have a very strong smell to them.
I think it's cig smoke, but maybe body odor??? I dont really know (and honestly I would prefer not to spend the time in sniffing it out....). So I spent some time on the internet and What I got was
1) put the pants in a plastic bag and seal it with some baking soda in it. And every other day shake out the old baking soda and put new baking soda in. After like maybe a week they should have all the bad smells taken out.
2)go to a pet supply store and get a spray that is for nutreulizing smells. Now since its leather, I dont know what might damage the leather and what wont, so I'm thinking turning the pants inside out and spraying the insides.... cafefuly... I dont think that would do anything too severe to the leather.

ok, any ideas? thoughts comments.....
I dont know what sort of leather it is. I dont know anything about leather clothes. But it's thin. Some if its naked (basicly untreated 'natural looking') some of its colored and 'glossy'... thats as far as I can figure...

 

[softgrey]

never heard of the baking soda trick- but it sounds good...
it IS supposed to absorb odors....

also- just hanging things outside in the fresh air/sunlight seems to work wonders...

i think we have a thread about removing odors from vintage clothing actually...
called .oooooh that smell...
will try to find the link for you......

 

[softgrey]

here it is...they do talk about baking soda here actually...
must've slipped my mind.....
http://www.thefashionspot.com/forums/f58/ooooh-smell-vintage-mustiness-31077.html?highlight=smell

 

[goosemaster]

thanks softie.
I'm trying the baking soda in a bag thing now....

we'll see. And I'll post in the other thread also.

 

[anchored]

i was in the moshpit at the last concert i went to, with a few of my crazy guy friends. i had the time of my life -

but came out with 2 necklaces missing and my gorgeous brown bag torn : (

 

[droogist]

^ Bummer.

This is kind of an odd question, but on the off-chance that someone might know: is it safe to clean clothing that has been treated to look permanently wrinkled (e.g. old Margiela pieces, or those current-season Prada dresses) in the dryer using a home-dry cleaning product (like Dryel)? Will they look the same afterwards, or will the wrinkles fall out...?

 

[softgrey]

yes droogist...
it's safe...probably the safest way actually......

i think the heat might acttually help to 'set' the wrinkles even more...

 

[droogist]

*breathes sigh of relief* Thanks softgrey! That's what I was hoping, but I thought I ought to get a second opinion before actually trying it, as everything I've Dryel-ed thus far has come out looking smooth and unwrinkled as the proverbial baby's ***. (I didn't think I could bear to relive the time my oh-so-artfully crumpled Margiela skirt came back from the cleaner's steamrolled flat. )

 

[softgrey]

getting untraditional clothing dry cleaned is always risky......

it never comes back quite the same...
i spend a long time explaining things to my dry cleaner...

 

[Trista]

My favourite summer shoes-a pair of espadrilles with a sort of crocheted strap across the feet-accidentally knocked over red wine. Thankfully it isn't that big, but still. They're a cream with a purple spot.

 

[fashionista-ta]

Oh dear ... I think this one's unrecoverable I was hanging up clothes when I saw that, unbeknownst to me, my favorite polka dot silk chiffon skirt had developed a horizontal rip

RIP

That's #4 so far this season ...

 

[GroovyDolce]

Pilling on my Polos, my favorite sweaters (one's vintage and the wool is kind of standing out!) and pilling on my hoodie and I shaved it and now it has a small hole!

 

[fashionista-ta]

I think we have another thread this should be merged with ... fashion tragedies??

 

[fashionista-ta]

Found it ...

 

[snowqueen]

i sat down on my very thin cotton dress arquidly and ripped the biggest hole in the back ... ok so i fixed it ok'ish only to do the same a few weeks later so there is now no back left on it at all

my skinny jeans that i wore to death so now the bum ripped .. the only pair of jeans that have properly fited me ever and they are dead

the shoes i kicked off in the longue only for the dog o take a fancy to them and chew the heal

all in the last week .. i need to start being more carefull with my clothes i guess.. i pay them no respect haha

 

[MariaT89]

I machine washed my bf's Gucci wallet..

yes, thats right............ along with a pack of cigarrettes and a pair of pants.. of course I didnt mean to.. I forgot to check the pockets..

anyway.. the wallet is now wrinkled just like paper wrinkles when wet.... and has tobacco and paper residue all over... so here is the corps