Great ideas here. I was "lucky" and found a HUGE, LONG, heavily beaded, laced, wedding dress at a garage sale for $1.00 - yes, one dollar. It was dirty though. The "husband" was tending to the sale and when i asked how much was the dress he said that they had tried to sell it for $10 - how about $1.00. I threw him a $1 bill and ran to my car with the dress. It has long sleeves and tons of lace and medallions and buttons on it. It is on the back of my bedroom door and I really kind of dread taking the goodies off of it but don't think that the fabric is good enough to worry about cleaning it. Looks like a child may have worn it for dress-up.