Blue Dior Dress

Name/Title

Blue Dior Dress

Condition

Condition Assessment

Stains, Unraveling, Missing Areas / Holes

Date Examined

Jan 31, 2019

Examined By

Tanya Nakamoto

Notes

Staining drips throughout inner and outer layers. Seams on front undone in sports with holes visible. Eye closure on back missing. 3 blue outer layers + 1 multi-layered lining. Planned wash and dye.

Conservation

Conservation Purpose

Cleaning

Treatment

Acute Treatment

Disassemble

Date(s)

Jan 31, 2019

Treatment Notes

Pics and stitches undone to remove inner lining from outer layers.

Acute Treatment

Wet-Clean

Date(s)

Feb 4, 2019 - Feb 5, 2019

Treatment Notes

Wash with mixture of Triton X, Vulplex, Orvus paste, enzyme surfactant, distilled water, and alcohol (500 mL soon: 2 qts alc: 1.5 gal water). Rinse with distilled water, wash dress layers, dyed while wet. Soaked in soda ash and salt cold dye overnight to remain wet before re-dye with hot acid dye next day. Soda ash with more concentrated dye test instead of hot acid dye version. Pale aqua color tested rather than original icy blue dye from previous day. Agitation every 10 min. After 20 min, add soda ash. After 2 hours remove, turn over. Tie dying effect formed. Re dyed with Marine Blue (Soda Ash).

Acute Treatment

Humidification

Date(s)

Feb 6, 2019

Treatment Notes

Steamed with 50% alcohol/50% distilled water. Photographed after dye.

Acute Treatment

Wet-Clean

Date(s)

Feb 6, 2019

Treatment Notes

Inner white layers washed

Acute Treatment

Hand Sewn Repairs

Date(s)

Feb 11, 2019 - Feb 13, 2019

Treatment Notes

Sewing of tears in seams of blue layers. Ironed blue layers. Sewing outer blue layers together.