UPDATE: Well the lace I had matched perfectly in the daylight but my daughter tried the dress on again once it was completely dry. It was still damp in the pics below. It was worse once it had dried and looked more like a party dress. As a last resort we drove half an hour away to a store for when they opened and joy oh joy they had some new stock and my daughter found the most perfect amazing dress that fitted like it was made for her! It wasn't cheap but looked beautiful. I will add a pic later when she is wearing it as I am in a rush now. Not sure what we will do with the short dress I think we can still rescue it but it is just not suitable for semi formal type events as it is.

Thank you to all of you for your advice.


HELP! I need some suggestions how to deal with this. I only have 12 hours some of which I need to get some sleep.

My DD bought this dress for graduation yesterday. We washed it on a very delicate cycle in the machine and it has shrunk!

I have shaken, pulled and even ironed it to try and fix it with no success so far. The outer fabric has shrunk about 2 inches and apart from being way to short it is shorter than the poly stretch lining. There is only 1cm of hem left to let down. What can i do. My DD needs this by tomorrow