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Good Afternoon Kim,
Why remove it........there maybe a story behind this kind of evidence?
I am always very hesitant to remove from any artifact any concretions, stains, marks, scars, dents, etc.....since such alterations (read: clues) may be evidence of past human behaviors and activities. If the lipstick stain won't hasten the degredation of the dress, I would leave it alone.
I may be an museum administrator now....but back in the Bronze Age (when I didn't have to wear a coat and tie) I was once a curator of anthropology.
Best Wishes,
Wesley
Wesley S. Creel
Administrator of Programs
Pink Palace Family of Museums
3050 Central Avenue
Memphis, TN 38111-3399
www.memphismuseums.org
(901) 320-6370 Direct
(901) 320-6391 FAX
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Hello,
I have a wedding dress with a small lipstick stain on
the inside of the bodice.
Can someone suggest a way to spot clean the lipstick?
The fabric is nylon, and is not very old -- it was
made in 1964.
THANK YOU!
Kim
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Kimberly A. Kenney, Curator
Wm. McKinley Presidential Library & Museum
800 McKinley Monument Dr. NW
Canton OH 44708 * 330-455-7043
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