To ask how to pack a pleated dress for travel and not ruin it?

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I've googled and it talks about paper clips and I don't have any clips and will be travelling in six hours!

Any tips on how not to ruin a pleated dress but bring it with me on a four hour flight? It's knee length.

Thanks

Gather up the pleats vertically and put the pleated bit of the dress in the leg of a pair of tights. That’s what I’d do

What does the label say about the fabric composition? Think polyester permapleat would be fine? (I know we’re all meant to hate polyester but it’s a bloody miracle in terms of practicality/looking amazing)

If you arrange it on a towel so that the pleats are straight. Then fold the spare edges of the towel in carefully and finally roll it like a burrito, that protects knife pleats.

What fabric is the dress made of?

A pleated dress is likely to be a synthetic fabric (very likely polyester) so the pleats are baked in.

If it's made of polyester those pleats are staying and you can be as mean to the dress as you like, it will just bounce back.

Well I would say what insanity taking pleats in a suitcase!!

These tips sound very good though.

Ok thank you all! I'll

We put DH kilt inside a pair of tights.

So the tights option you literally roll the garment up (longways presumably and then put it into tights? And it won't crush it?

I cut the legs off an old pair of tights, then lay the garment out lengthways, carefully fold the garment over until it's narrow enough to slide the leg of the tights over.
Roll the tights up and then carefully unroll down the garment from the waistband down to the hem, holding the waistband as you do so.
It works for me.

What's the fabric? I took a pleated midi skirt in a suitcase last weekend and it came out looking perfect. It's some sort of man made fabric.

I can see that cotton or linen would be more problematic.

No, it won't crush it.