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UPDATE for clarification purposes…. I should not have titled this TSA. I don’t want to disrespect the job, often thankless, that they do every day. I should have said “Suck it Agencia Federal de Aviación Civil (AFAC), alongside the National Guard, and private security contractors who are doing screenings at the San Jose del Cabo airport.”
That being said, the rest of my sentiment is the same….

My set is complete again thanks to a kind reader who gave me a link for purchasing a single hook.
And, because the end of my new hook is slightly lighter and has the mm marking too, I’ll always know which one was confiscated in the Cabo airport.
RIP little J hook that was laid to rest in the TSA trash can in Mexico. 🥲

History- 35 year old dress, never cleaned after wedding, shoved inside garment bag and left in hot attic for all these years. Dress tag says Dry Clean Only.

Present - engaged daughter wants to repurpose the dress, but it has stains (dirt and dark orange oxidized sugar stains from alcohol. Lol). I didn’t want her to spend hundreds of dollars to clean it if the stains wouldn’t come clean or if I could do it. I did some research (read a bunch of posts). Then decided to jump in.

Experiment- 11 hour soak in oxy powder from Costco. Laid over my glass shower door to dry.

Results - AMAZING!!!!! The body material is so much whiter! All stains, but one, are gone!!!! Some of the beads/sequins are yellow due to time, but the soak didn’t hurt them. I’m pretty sure if I did another soak I could get it out, but I didn’t want to push my luck since she may not even need that piece for what she has planned. The dress was unusable beforehand, and now she has a whole dress to use. We are both so excited!

It’s so had to convey in photos and a dark house how much whiter the whole dress became, but if you zoom in on the netting in the before and after photos you can tell.

Summary- GO FOR IT! If the dress is unusable as is, what do you have to lose?

History- 35 year old dress, never cleaned after wedding, shoved inside garment bag and left in hot attic for all these years. Dress tag says Dry Clean Only.

Present - engaged daughter wants to repurpose the dress, but it has stains (dirt and dark orange oxidized sugar stains from alcohol. Lol). I didn’t want her to spend hundreds of dollars to clean it if the stains wouldn’t come clean or if I could do it. I did some research (read a bunch of posts). Then decided to jump in.

Experiment- 11 hour soak in oxy powder from Costco. Laid over my glass shower door to dry.

Results - AMAZING!!!!! The body material is so much whiter! All stains, but one, are gone!!!! Some of the beads/sequins are yellow due to time, but the soak didn’t hurt them. I’m pretty sure if I did another soak I could get it out, but I didn’t want to push my luck since she may not even need that piece for what she has planned. The dress was unusable beforehand, and now she has a whole dress to use. We are both so excited!

It’s so had to convey in photos and a dark house how much whiter the whole dress became, but if you zoom in on the netting in the before and after photos you can tell.

Summary- GO FOR IT! If the dress is unusable as is, what do you have to lose?