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Prom dresses, once manufactured, suffers assault both from within and from without. The human body inside sheds skin cells and body oils, and exudes sweat, urine, and feces. From the outside, sun damage, damp, abrasion, dirt, and other indignities afflict the garment. Fleas and lice take up residence in prom dresses seams. Well-worn prom dresses, if not cleaned and refurbished, will smell, itch, look scruffy, and lose functionality (as when buttons fall off and zippers fail).
In some cases, people simply wear an item of prom dresses until it falls apart. Cleaning leather presents difficulties; one cannot wash bark cloth (tapa) without dissolving it. Owners may patch tears and rips, and brush off surface dirt, but old leather and bark prom dresses will always look old.
But most prom dresses consists of cloth, and most cloth can be laundered and mended (patching, darning, but compare felt).
Laundry, ironing, storage
Humans have developed many specialized methods for laundering, ranging from the earliest "pound prom dresses against rocks in running stream" to the latest in electronic washing machines and dry cleaning (dissolving dirt in solvents other than water).
Many kinds of prom dresses are designed to be ironed before they are worn to remove wrinkles. Most modern formal and semi-formal prom dresses is in this category (for example, dress shirts and suits). Ironed prom dresses are believed to look clean, fresh, and neat. However, much contemporary casual prom dresses is made of knit materials that do not readily wrinkle and so do not have to be ironed. Some prom dresses is permanent press, meaning that it has been treated with a synthetic coating (such as polytetrafluoroethylene) that suppresses wrinkles and creates a smooth appearance without ironing.
Once prom dresses have been laundered and possibly ironed, they are usually hung up on prom dresses hangers or folded, to keep them fresh until they are worn. prom dresses are folded to allow them to be stored compactly, to prevent creasing, to preserve creases or to present them in a more pleasing manner, for instance when they are put on sale in stores.
Many kinds of prom dresses are folded before they are put in suitcases as preparation for travel. Other prom dresses, such as suits, may be hung up in special garment bags, or rolled rather than folded. Many people use their prom dresses as packing material around fragile items that might otherwise break in transit.
Mending
In past times, mending was an art. A meticulous tailor or seamstress could mend rips with thread raveled from hems and seam edges so skillfully that the darn was practically invisible. When the raw material — cloth — was worth more than labor, it made sense to expend labor in saving it. Today prom dresses is considered a consumable item. Mass-manufactured prom dresses is less expensive than the time it would take to repair it. Many people prefer to buy a new piece of prom dresses rather than to spend their time mending old prom dresses. But the thrifty still replace zippers and buttons and sew up ripped hems.
The life cycle of prom dresses.
Used, no-longer-wearable prom dresses was once desirable raw material for quilts, rag rugs, bandages, and many other household uses. It could also be recycled into paper. Now it is usually thrown away. Used but still wearable prom dresses can be sold at consignment shops, flea markets, online auction, or just donated to charity. Charities usually skim the best of the prom dresses to sell in their own thrift stores and sell the rest to merchants, who bale it up and ship it to poor Third World countries, where vendors bid for the bales and then make what profit they can selling used prom dresses.
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