the COUTURE CLEANER
SINCE 1953
SINCE 1953
Margaret’s is your best source for couture bridal care. We are experts in cleaning, alterations, pressing, and museum-quality gown preservation. We offer complimentary on-site pick-up and delivery within our route service areas and climate-controlled storage. Please send us your used or dirty gown and your veil, shoes, handbag, or accessories to get award-winning cleaning in our custom-designed facility. We also cater to the vintage-gown-wearing bride to restore or revamp the style. All work is done in-house by our highly qualified team.
Our before and after photo gallery of a few previous success stories shows a collection of impossibly stained yellowed and seemingly irretrievably damaged bridal gowns, cleaned and restored beautifully.
Legacy Gown Preservation. It is possible to preserve your wedding gown so that generations of brides may wear it. Museum conservators expect to extend the lifetime of textiles by 200 years by storing them in an acid-free box with acid-free tissue and a cotton muslin liner. These are the basics of our heirloom preservation system after your gown has been meticulously cleaned, inspected under multi-spectrum lighting and hand-finished.
Vintage Restoration & Storage. Our Restoration Services can reverse many years of yellowing and repair damage on poorly stored gowns and accessories. In addition, Margaret’s can store and keep your gown secure, safe from the hazards of a crowded closet, and hidden from “prying eyes” before the wedding. Following your gown preservation, we offer long-term storage in a climate-controlled environment. We will also open the storage box and refold the gown as needed during storage.
Margaret’s UPS CleanByMail ® Specialty Services. If you reside outside our Southern California pickup and delivery areas, you can ship your gown and accessories to us using UPS. With over 4,900 UPS Store ® locations nationwide, bridal care has never been more convenient. It’s like having 4,900 Margaret’s drop-off locations.
Bridal & CleanByMail Questions? Call Direct 858-429-7261 • email: bridal@margarets.com Toll Free (866) 454-2375 • www.margarets.com
We Service the Following Bridal Businesses
Alexander McQueen
Andreas’s Fashions, Los Angeles
Bliss Events
Blush Bridal
Bridal Couture by Celia
Brides of San Diego
Carolina Herrera
Casa Blanca
Couture Bride, Las Vegas
Erin Cole
Everafter Events
Galia Lahav
Glamour Closet
Happy Isles
Here Comes the Bride
Jana Ann
Kiki’s Alterations
Kinsley James
L’ezu Bridal Atelier
MD Tailoring
Mon Amie
Monique Lhuillier
Nordstroms
Oscar de la Renta, West Hollywood
Oscar de la Renta, South Coast Plaza
Prevue Pronovias
Roxie’s Couture Alterations
Ryan and Walter Bridal
Sebastien Luke
The Bustle
The Dress Theory
The Ivory Suite
The White Dress
Velvet Hanger
Vera Wang, Beverly Hills
Victoria Schroeder
Vivienne Westwood
Our Bridal Facilities
Multi-Spectrum Inspection
Gown Cleaning Spas
Bridal Clean Room
Museum-Quality Gown Preservation
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Preserved Gown in its Archival Chest
Vintage Restoration
Our Famous “Split” Gown
The wedding was July 1965. Forty-five years later our customer donated the gown to us to create a demonstration piece. We split it in half, restored one side of it and sewed it back together. BEFORE RESTORATION AFTER RESTORATION
Photos from the wedding album.
Gowns – Before & After Some Margaret’s “Miracles”
Gowns – Before & After
Gowns – Before & After
A Special Restoration Project
Refurbish & Repair a Vintage Costume
The Crusades, 1935, with Loretta Young & Cecil B. DeMille Goals: Repair beadwork, recreate cape & fur
Some History
John with one of today’s delivery vans.
Our Mission Since 1953
To be the nation’s most successful couture dry cleaner and to live up to our goals of providing true excellence through craftsmanship and Five Star Customer Service.
May 1956
John Horst during his early career.
