Costuming year in review - lessons learned

My lesson learned this year is that pinking silk isn't enough to keep it from fraying. All the trim and sleeve ruffles that I made for my Lady Poe 1762 ballgown were pinked with scalloped pinking shears, and over the evening I wore it they just frayed, and frayed and frayed. Before I use the gown again I will have to take off all the trim, repink the edges and treat the edges in some way.

It's not that the image is enlarged, all the fuzz on the edges are because they are fraying really badly.