Craftgrrl

i don't know about stain remvoing, but i have taken to using ladies pantie liners under my arms in some of my nicer or more sweat prone shirts. not only does it save your fabric, but it also gets rid of those pesky pit stains that plague even the girliest of girls. generally the unscented kind are best. :o)

Pantiliners are sold in drugstores, grocery stores, and walmart/kmart type places over with the women's menstrual products. They're self-adhesive, so you peel off the strip and stick to undies (or armpits). There are armpit guards one can buy, but I can't remember where I've seen them lately.

And those red stains are likely a reaction of cleaning chemicals with the salts in your sweat, the salt in your sweat with clear gel antiperspirants, or cleaning chemicals with the clear gel antiperspirant. As far as I know, it's not a stain, but a chemical reaction that changes the color and there's no way to fix it. If there IS a way to fix it, I'd like to know. Preventing it has been easy--no clear gel antiperspirants, no dry cleaning. ;)

dryell is emporer.

hahaha that would be so awesome..

Hehe shes refering to actual pantyliners (you know for your period), not something made for shirts =) ... and thats a very good alternate use for them. Thanks for the idea!

Sometimes black fabric gets bleached red by sweat...I've had some luck re-coloring the fabric with fabric dye, but the best way to prevent that kind of staining is to get the dress dry-cleaned every time you wear it. And Dryell doesn't count, has to be the real dry-cleaner. Doesn't do you much good at this point because the fabric is already bleached, but you may want to paint some fabric dye onto the reddened velvet to see if you can get it to match the rest of the fabric.