18. Power of the Press

Another thing about my beloved silk satin? It wrinkles like nobody's business. Mom spent a lot of time with her iron and her special ironing tools getting rid of the many, many wrinkles that plagued the dress. In this picture, she's pressing open the seams of the dress - just as genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration, sewing often seems to be 99% pressing/prep and 1% actual sewing. Mom later stitched all the pressed seams down by hand.