https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ask-angie-storing-prom-dress Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Wed, 22 Apr 2026 09:08:52 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ask-angie-storing-prom-dress#post-2020290 Wed, 17 Apr 2019 08:56:25 +0000 Stagiaire Fash 2020290@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Kathy, if I understood her correctly, Glory meant that the alterations place provided what she needed to hang the dress appropriately. </p> <p>When you take it to be cleaned after prom, if you tell them it is going to be stored, I think they will do a similar thing—provide the right kind of box, with dress folded in it just so. </p> <p>Hope your daughter enjoys wearing the dress and has a great time! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ask-angie-storing-prom-dress#post-2020110 Tue, 16 Apr 2019 14:32:15 +0000 Angie 2020110@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Hi, <b>Kathy.</b> <b>Glory's</b> suggestion sounds best.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ask-angie-storing-prom-dress#post-2020061 Tue, 16 Apr 2019 12:04:02 +0000 Kathy642 2020061@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Glory, Thanks for the info.<br />Since I don't have velvet or fabric hanger and garment bag yet, I'm thinking of bringing for alterations by laying dress over pants bar of hanger and long plastic bag over it.&nbsp; Just to get it there.&nbsp; Think that will work? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ask-angie-storing-prom-dress#post-2019989 Tue, 16 Apr 2019 03:13:47 +0000 Glory 2019989@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Not Angie but I just picked up my daughters prom dress from alterations and steaming. They gave it to me hung on a velvet hanger and a non plastic garment bag. They recommended I store it like this until prom. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/ask-angie-storing-prom-dress#post-2019932 Mon, 15 Apr 2019 22:03:39 +0000 Kathy642 2019932@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>&nbsp;I am trying to figure out how to store my daughter's prom dress until prom and then after prom. Prom is in 2 weeks and we are taking it tomorrow to be altered and steamed, so it will be there for about a week, but to take it there and then at home before prom, I am wondering how to hang it.<br />&nbsp; I have it laying between white sheets on the bedroom floor right now. It is long, very heavy and the top and sleeves are very delicate(tulle with embellishments). I was thinking of laying it over the pants bar of a strong hanger then in long plastic dress bag to bring it to get altered and then I don't know what to do with it once I get it back from being altered and steamed, and then after prom. <br />I'm not laying it down before prom once steamed, because I don't want to chance wrinkles. Not sure if I should keep it laying over the pants bar of a hanger or get a fabric hanger to hang it on(don't know if it would get stretched out being hung for a week before prom).<br />&nbsp;I was thinking that after prom, I could hang it on fabric hanger in breathable garment bag, but I'm afraid of it losing it's shape and stretching out or ripping. Also, being so heavy, I'm afraid if I use the hanging straps in the dress, that they could pull and rip the dress because I put the dress on a hanger using them and it seemed like the weight of the dress was really pulling on the straps. Otherwise not sure what to do with it after prom. &nbsp; </p> <p>&nbsp; What do you think? </p>