Removing Stains from Vintage Clothing - as part of the Women's Style series by GeoBeats. Good way to remove stains from vintage clothing is to do a pre-wash and treat it. You can treat it with an item something like oxiclean or if you have got a particularly delicate item you can use an ivory soap or something that has less phosphates and abrasiveness. You want to soap that item, and treat it and clean it before you put it in a cold watered delicate wash. And wash that item, that is a good way to remove stains. Some stains are tricky to come out. Armpit stains are one of the worse that I have ever seen in vintage clothing. They are produced from sweat in our body that will break away and eat away the fabric of the clothing literally, so sometimes that can be almost impossible to remove. A good tip on removing stains that are on vintage clothing and are just a light stain, that is right on top of that item, is a baby wipe. Baby wipes are my best friend, you are gonna take those and you are gonna rub it along the item of vintage clothing and they will take away lipstick, they will take away deodorant stains and they will take away face make up.