Help! I have scorched a beautiful borrowed cotton dress!

[Racingsnake]

I don't know if there is anything to be done. I hung it too close to the fire when dd spilt water down the front and now there is a definite brown mark. Is there anything I can do to restore it to its former beauty???

Tips here and here

Thank you! Too late to lunge immediately into iced water (I rolled it up and hid it in the laundry basket while I panicked, then forgot about it until bed time) but will try vinegar and hydrogen peroxide tomorrow.

just in case you didn't know - you can get hydrogen peroxide in the contact lens area of boots

That I didn't know.

I also have no idea why I have got a bottle of it in the medicine cupboard. I think I might have inherited it from my parents' medicine cupboard. At last a use for it.

(And I will know where to replace it.)

dont forget it bleaches so be very careful with it

i once scorched my sister's favourite skirt with my iron. Managed to find an incredibly talented tailor who deceptively cut out the burnt patch and somehow sewed the cut so you couldnt notice at all....

Was wondering about something with a bleaching effect on a dark red and blue patterned dress ... Clever tailor sounds beyond my means - was wondering about a)changing my name and living abroad or b)carefully singeing whole dress (or even c) admitting all to friend). However will try hp first. And vinegar.