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Faux Fur Fabric

For restoring matted/tangled fur of any; length, color, or size, you will have to wash by hand. Start by applying soap to the fur, this can be any type of soap such as dish soap or woolite but make sure you don't use any type of harsh bleaching detergent that can cause discoloration. For extremely dirty and matted fur the only bleeching agent advised would be 70% antiseptic isopropyl rubbing alcohol, this acts as a low grade bleeching agent that won't cause any discoloration to your fur. Second step is cleaning your fur with cold water and make sure all the soap is washed off the fur, once you do that you're ready for the final step, hang up your fur, blow dry on warm heat and high intensity. While you're drying, brush the fur gently with a pet brush, go against and with the nap but mostly you will be going with the nap of the fur. Once you're all done refer to the example pics to see how it should look.

Stretch Knit Polyester Fabric

Cleaning any stretch knit polyester fabric only requires you to wash with cold water and a gentle detergent such as woolite. Do not machine dry on hot, its recommended you hang up your item to dry but if you do machine dry only do tumble dry on a cold setting. Every outfit can be washed like this except for, 1992-2001 tuxedo, black Helen dress.

Tuxedo

1993-2001 Tuxedo and pants are dry clean only.

Vinyl Plastic Fabric

Vinyl plastic can easily be cleaned by hand, for stains on colored vinyl all you need is dish soap and a good sponge, make sure you don't use the abrasive side or you will risk tears or smoothing of the fabric. For white vinyl that has yellowed, rubbing alcohol can be used to clean the vinyl and restore the original white color.

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 == Faux Fur Fabric ==
-For restoring matted/tangled fur of any; length, color, or size, you will have to wash by hand. Start by apply soap to the fur, this can be any type of soap such as dish soap or woolite but make sure you don't use any type of harsh bleaching detergent that can cause discoloration. For extremely dirty and matted fur the only bleeching agent advised would be 70% antiseptic isopropyl rubbing alcohol, this acts as a low grade bleeching agent that won't cause any discoloration to your fur. Second step is cleaning your fur with cold water and make sure all the soap is washed off the fur, once you do that you're ready for the final step, hang up your fur, blow dry on warm heat and high intensity. While you're drying, brush the fur gently with a pet brush, go against and with the nap but mostly you will be going with the nap of the fur. Once you're all done your fur should look like the example [[:File:After example.jpg|pics]].
+For restoring matted/tangled fur of any; length, color, or size, you will have to wash by hand. Start by applying soap to the fur, this can be any type of soap such as dish soap or woolite but make sure you don't use any type of harsh bleaching detergent that can cause discoloration. For extremely dirty and matted fur the only bleeching agent advised would be 70% antiseptic isopropyl rubbing alcohol, this acts as a low grade bleeching agent that won't cause any discoloration to your fur. Second step is cleaning your fur with cold water and make sure all the soap is washed off the fur, once you do that you're ready for the final step, hang up your fur, blow dry on warm heat and high intensity. While you're drying, brush the fur gently with a pet brush, go against and with the nap but mostly you will be going with the nap of the fur. Once you're all done refer to the example [[:File:After example.jpg|pics]] to see how it should look.
-[[File:Before.jpg|thumb|162x162px|Before]]
+[[File:Before.jpg|thumb|162x162px|Before|left]]
-[[File:After example.jpg|thumb|167x167px|After]]
+[[File:After example.jpg|thumb|167x167px|After|center]]
 == Stretch Knit Polyester Fabric ==