PANIC - How do I get biro out of silk ???

[wickedstepmother]

I bought a beautiful pale pure silk top to wear on my hen night 5 weeks ago. As part of my hen night I was set challenges, one of which was to get 10 mens phone numbers written on me in biro.

I thought I'd been successful in avoiding pen on the top itself but, alas, no. I have a blue biro line of about 2.5in long on the bottom of it. I want to wear the top again but I can't get the stain out and don't want to be too experimental as I really don't want to ruin the top further. As you may have already guessed the top is hand wash only and so the most I have tried is a gentle soak in Fairy non-bio. My usual life-saver, Vanish Oxy, isn't suitable for use on silk and so I am now stuck ! PLEASE HELP !

Desperate of Worcester

Soupie ... I liked it too ... ever so slightly eeeeeuuuuwwwww!... they have lots of different ones but that was the one that worked for me (not the specific biro one) ...

Hairspray. Absolutely amazed me, but ruined a new pink top with blue biro and worried about it for ages. Some chemical in the hairspray dissolves the ink and it just washes away under cold water - and this was on a "professional dry clean only" top, which looks as good as new.