Discoloured Dress
Dear Aunt Daisy, Could you tell me how to remove dark marks on a red woollen frock made by a silver metal chain I wear with the frock and the accumulation of two or three years’ wear?
The Schoolhouse
Marks from metal are very stubborn, and I really do not think you will be able to remove them. Even on one’s skin, a silver chain will leave a stain which needs a good rub with soap and water, after first applying tace-cream. You could try rubbing in dry magnesia, and folding the frock over, sprinkling more magnesia on each side, then wrapping in a white cloth and leaving for several days. Then brush the powder off with a clean clothes brush. You may perhaps find the marks gone. Or treat them like tarnish, and cover them with a paste made of magnesia and methylated spirits or cream of tartar and water; or methylated spirits and whiting. Roll up and leave for some hours, then brush off, and hang outside till smell ot meths goes off. Perhaps some Link in our Chain can help us in this?
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 634, 24 August 1951, Page 23
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188Discoloured Dress New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 634, 24 August 1951, Page 23
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