To ask who has the oldest non-cleaned wedding dress

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I was just looking in the wardrobe today where I hide my Christmas presents, and saw my wedding dress hanging up there (in a cover). It reminded me that another year has gone by when I have not got round to getting it cleaned. So, it will be 8 years next June since I wore it. I always intended to get it cleaned, but then stuff happened - kids, life, work, and there never seemed like a good time to justify £300+ to get it cleaned. So, it's still there.

Anyone else got a dress still covered in grass, mud, fake tan, wine hanging in their wardrobe, and for how long?

8.5 years here

9 years here.mine has a breastmilk stain on it as I got married 17 days after giving birth and seperated five months later

25 years. In a plastic bag in the top of my wardrobe and the bottom is covered in grass stains. I couldn't afford to have it cleaned at the time but I don't suppose it will ever be worn again.

Mine is uncleaned from 2004. I also used the 1890s family christening gown the same year and had no idea how to clean it so just put it away!

10 years in June. I haven't taken it out of the box since the wedding so have no idea what I'd be faced with

I would definitely do that overinaflash - I've never heard of it. I'm abroad so will have to see if a charity like that exists here.

1999, still at my parents' house in its special hanging cover in the cupboard I hung it up in the day after my wedding. I'm long since divorced but the thought of looking at it or having to deal with it makes me feel sad.

Mine is 15 years old and it's never been professionally cleaned but it did go in the washing machine after my DDs acquired it for dressing up and then one of them had a dodgy tummy... and let's just leave that there. It was a 100 quid secondhand bridesmaid's dress though, so not that big a loss...

Mine has boot polish on the back. Vicar polished the seat I sat in to sign the register. Not cleaned off 1993

22 years here.
I think about getting it cleaned but then wonder why I would bother. I don't plan on wear it again!

I have no idea where mine is. Mum packed it off to Africa where, apparently, there was a demand for them in the early 1990s.

Mine's screwed up in a small bag, but it was never a posh wedding dress anyway. More than 30 years.

@DailyMaileatmyshit I would be interested in that - my dress from my first wedding over 30 years ago still hasn't been cleaned (and it has been worn by someone else in the interim). I don't want it but am loathe to just bin it. I googled and looked at their website but can't find anything recent about it?

19 years - married in August 1998.

I wore it when I got married in Kenya. I did have it cleaned after that, quickly, before my blessing a fortnight later. It had been covered in some of the red dusty sand from the safari resort, most came off but not all. Didn't have it cleaned after the blessing though. Its in a case in the loft.

Mine's 40 years old, my DM's is 67 years old. Both uncleaned and packed away.

I must have done my wedding wrong, because mine was pretty much spotless! We had a very low key wedding though because everyone in my family is ancient, and DH's family didn't really come (overseas).

Mine's 10 years just gone and still has the grass stains on the bottom and the spray tan under the arms

I paid £110 pounds to have DD’s cleaned and put in a box. £300 is a bit steep.

My wedding dress was handmade from the late 1930s, had only been worn by the person that made it and wore it. I didn’t get it cleaned before I wore it. It was in perfect condition and only smelt faintly of her perfume. I couldn’t bring myself to wash her (whoever she was!) off.

Totally freakily, I happened to choose my wedding perfume before the dress arrived and my perfume smelt very similar to the one she must have worn

Oh and I haven’t had it cleaned since

I got mine dry cleaned last month. It will be our 6th anniversary end of December. It wasn’t really dirty but going to sell it so had to be done. It took them 3 weeks to clean it though which was not good for my anxiety. It is quite ornate with many layers. Was worried they would destroy it. It cost a fortune too but they did a good job so can’t realky complain

My late parents were married in 1947 ( just before HM) and her dress has never been cleaned however it will be next year as one of my nieces would like to wear it .

Married 1972, in original box in the loft, and never been cleaned.

1988, never had it cleaned!