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I love that my mom has kept many of her pieces from the early days of my adolescence, and that she now gets to begrudgingly share them with me

and well past the holiday, too PureWow editors select every item that appears on this page, and some items may be gifted to us

With the tireless help of conservation volunteer Mia Mehta, we vacuumed systematically through the seemingly unending layers, tracking our work by placing temporary stitches in bright cotton thread to mark our progress, as there was no obvious line between vacuumed and unvacuumed areas

Some gowns also include inner corsetry with a zip-up back, offering the shaping of a corset while keeping the look smooth and seamless