Dress Sizes and Cleaning Recommendations

Please check your dress will fit by taking your measurements:
Bust, is taken around the fullest part of your bust.  Waist, is taken around your natural waist line.  Hip, going across your bottom.

Scroll down for the dress label you would like to buy and check your measurements to get the right size as they ALL VARY. Cleaning recommendations are underneath the size charts. Please contact us with any questions.

Pencil dress size guide

Size      Bust      Waist      Hips    in inches
S            34"         25"         35"
M           35"         27"         37"
L            38"         29"         39"
XL          40"         31"        41"

Mascara dress size guide in inches

              Bust         Waist       Hip

UK 8     36.5"        28.5"       39.5"
UK10   37.5"         29.5"      40.5"
UK12   39"             31"         42"
UK14   40.5"         32.5"      43.5"
UK16   42.5"         34"          45.5"
UK18   44.5"         35"          47.5"

Skirt length is 44 to 35"

GINO dress size guide in CM's

Size       Bust         Waist         Hip    

6            78cm        58cm        88cm
8            85cm        65cm        92cm
10          89cm        69cm        96cm
12          93cm        72cm       100cm
14          96cm        76cm       104cm 
16          103cm      83cm       110cm
18          109cm      90cm      116cm

JORA dress size guide in inches

Size               Bust             Waist    
XXS/6           33.5"            26"
XS/8             34"                27"
S/10             35.5"             28"
M/12             36"                29"
L/14              38.5"            30"
XL/16            40"               31.5"
2XL/18         41.5"            33.5"

Dynasty dress size guide

Size    Bust       Waist       Hip   in inches       

6       30.5         24         34                      
8        33           25.5      35.5  
10      34.5         27          37 
12      36            29          39 
14      38            31          41
16      40            33          43
18      42            35          45

UNIQUE dress size guide 

Size       Bust        Waist         Hip      in inches
8            34"           26/27"      37"
10         36"            28/29"      38"
12          38"           30/31"      39"
14          40"           32/33"      40"

Precious Formals dress size guide

Size                            Bust         Waist         Hip           in inches

USA 2 (UK 6)           24"            26.5"         37"
USA 4 (UK 8)           35"            27.5"         38"
USA 6 (UK 10)         36"            28.5"         39"
USA 8 (UK 12)         37"            29.5"         40"
USA 10 (UK 14)       38"           30.5"         41"  
USA 12 (UK 16)      39.5"        32"            42.5"

All sizes are aproximate

Cleaning recommendations: A lot of washing labels in dresses say specialist dry clean or light dry clean. Caution must be applied when choosing a dry cleaner, as normal dry cleaning methods are to be avoided as beads and sequins can be damaged or melt and ruin a dress. A specialist dry cleaner will know how to treat the embellishments and remove or specially cover the bead and sequin embellishments prior to any cleaning process.

Dry cleaners vary in their methods, so we only advise using one you know well and who is a specialist in delicate dresses with embellishments. Check that they are confident they will not melt or destroy the beads or sequins, which can mark and ruin your dress!

Walk in Wardrobe will not accept responsibility for problems arising as a result of post sale cleaning of dresses. All such problems should be referred back to the dry cleaner that completed the process.

The following alternative cleaning options are guidelines only and ones that we have found useful over the years.

We have found hand washing some dresses made from tulle, mesh, netting, taffeta or jersey in cold water to be quite successful. We have spot cleaned marks off gently with diluted non-bio washing machine liquid then shower down with cold water, keeping the dress hanging at all times. Leaving to drip dry in a well-ventilated area so that air circulates while the dress is drying.

Another method, which has also been successfully tried by some of our customers, is putting the dress inside out in a washing machine care net bag on delicate hand wash on COLD water.

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