Help with dying (a dress!!)

sashanut

Can anyone help with a bit of advice please - hope I am in the right place for this question. I have a weekend function coming up; have quite a nice (new) dress I can wear but it is pale pink - not my colour at all. However it is a Ghost dress - made of crepe - & I read somewhere that these items can be dyed very successfully. I would prefer the colour to be blue - or lilac - but am terrified it will go brown which really is not my colour at all. Can anyone help please - I don't want to ruin it & then have the expense of buying another outfit!:eek: TIA for any help!


Sasha

laughing_cow

It shouldn't go brown - I think pale pink base + blue/lilac dye = Blue/lilac dress. Imagine the colours as if you were mixing two paint colours together.

Does the dress have have any trims/ribbons/stitching which might go a different colour? I once dyed a jersey cardigan from pale blue to aubergine - the stitching stayed blue. This looked ok though. However, I also dyed a coffee coloured bikini because had a small stain. I decided to dye it chocolate brown, but unfortunately the cream trims turned bright orange - there must have been some yellow tones in that cream trim. Soooo not my colour! I was gutted because it was a very expensive bikini and the end result made it look really cheap, as well as not suiting me so I ended up chucking it out. :rolleyes: