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Maybe just airing it out for a while will help? Can you hang it up in an empty room with a fan blowing fresh air at it? I do think steaming will help too, but I would want it as fresh as possible before the steaming.
Could you hang is from a clothesline outside and wrap in a sheet to protect it. Air it out. Do you have a screen porch you could hang it in. Alternately mabye a sachet in the bottom of the gown bag.
A good steaming and a new bag will solve all of your odor problems. Odors cling to the bags for some reason and will make the dress smell if you put it back in the same bag. So when you go for your free steaming, ask for a new bag to put it in after the steaming. Once it is steamed though the bag is only used for transportation and the dress should be out of the bag in a very safe location.
I agree with PPs, just air it out or use a sachet-- but just in case, don't let that sachet touch the fabric.
@kayakgirl73: perfect idea with the sachet! Im going to call Davids Bridal and ask if the steaming will help...otherwise I will do the sachet in the bottom of the bag until it is steaming time..and then after steaming it will hang freely from the center of the room for a wk and a half before the wedding. That should take care of it. *fingers crossed*
keep the suggestions coming ladies..thanks again!
@dallasbride2012: I thought about ditching the bag! As soon as I unzippd it, the smell smacked me in the face..but once i put the gown on, I really didnt smell it.
I will stop and get a new garment bag today..and a sachet just in case!
I know plastic bags leave a smell on a dress- just don't leave it somewhere where a pet can get to it! (Like a recent bee who had an unfortunate situation....)
This may sound completely off the wall but...I stored my dress in a spare bedroom at my moms until the wedding, and she had one of those airwick plug in things in that room. And my dress smelled just like it :) Kind of like what you said- I could smell it on the bag and on the dress when I first took it out of the bag, but not once I had it on. So maybe you could find a lightly scented airwick, and put it in the room with the dress?
thanks bees..it was definately that plastic bag! I threw that bag face first into the garbage, and hung her up from the ceiling in a very well ventilated vacant room inside of my office..and I tell ya not a smell to be found after a few days! Im sooo glad too. I have to admit I was really freaing out! When I drop her off for steaming on Friday, I will have them put her back into a brand spanking new unsticky stench free bag :)
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so I had an independent gal do my alterations, and let me say that she has done an AMAZING job. Its perfect and everything heavenly that I hoped it would be! I would recommend her in a heart beat! It also only cost me $120 for the same alts that Davids Bridal wanted to charge me $350 for! So NO regrets there!
But now my gown smells like her house :( Its not a cigarette smoke smell, and nothing offensive like a skunk or rotten eggs, but its definately not the "new" smell it had when she took it.
I am dropping off my gown to get steamed at Davids Brida next week (for free, because I rock
) and I am wondering if that will naturally freshen the fabric? I certainly dont want to hit it with Febreeze or anything because I am scared of ruining the gown. Anyone have a similar experience of trying to remove a slight odor? If the steaming doesnt work, any of u lovely gals have some suggestions?
Maybe I am being over sensitive to it, and maybe no one else would even smell it, but i smelled it when I opened my dress bag and want it gone! :(