How to wash a silk dress

Silk dresses are of course made of silk. Silk dresses feel particularly smooth and have a great hand feel. They are also light, colorful, and very cool to wear in summer. But there is one thing that everyone is most worried about, because silk dresses are expensive, so they don’t know how to wash them.

When washing silk dresses in a washing machine, you are afraid that they will be damaged. Silk dresses are also easy to wrinkle. What should you do when they are wrinkled? There are so many questions about silk dresses, and these issues are also the issues that everyone is most concerned about. Now let's ask experts to talk about how to wash silk dresses?

Washing: Silk clothing is made of delicate protein-based health-care fiber. It is not suitable to be rubbed on rough items or washed in a washing machine. The clothes should be soaked in cold water for 5-10 minutes, and gently rubbed with a special silk detergent, synthetic low-foaming laundry detergent or neutral soap. Colored silk clothing can be rinsed repeatedly in clean water.

Drying: Silk clothing should not be exposed to the sun after washing, and should not be dried in a dryer. They should generally be placed in a cool and ventilated place to dry. Because the ultraviolet rays in the sun can easily cause silk fabrics to turn yellow, fade, and age. Therefore, silk clothing should not be wrung to remove water after washing. Instead, it should be gently shaken out and spread out to air with the reverse side facing outwards, and then ironed or shaken flat when it is 70% dry.

Ironing of silk dresses: The wrinkle resistance of silk clothing is slightly worse than that of chemical fibers, so there is a saying that "if it is not wrinkled, it is not real silk". If clothes are wrinkled after washing, they need to be ironed to make them crisp, flowing and beautiful. When ironing, let the clothes dry to 70% and then spray them evenly with clean water. Wait for 3-5 minutes before ironing. The ironing temperature should be controlled below 150℃. The iron should not directly touch the silk surface to avoid producing aurora.

Storage: When storing silk clothing, thin underwear, shirts, pants, skirts, pajamas, etc. should be washed clean and ironed before storage. Autumn and winter clothing, jackets, and cheongsams that are inconvenient to disassemble and wash should be dry cleaned and ironed until flat to prevent mildew and moth infestation. After ironing, it can also kill bacteria and insects. At the same time, boxes and cabinets for storing clothes should be kept clean and sealed as well as possible to prevent dust contamination.

Now that we know how to wash silk dresses, we also need to understand other aspects of it. For example, when buying a silk dress, you should buy a larger size so that it will be comfortable to wear and will not damage the silk. Also, silk dresses should be dried in the shade, not exposed to the sun or under fluorescent lights.