Scorched jeans given new lease of life

SadGamerGeek

Hi all,

First post so please be nice

While on holiday recently I was attempting to quickly dry some jeans with an iron (long story....). Lack of concentration and unfamiliarity with an extremely old non-steam iron meant I scorched the (blue) jeans very visibly. They were relatively new 501's (first time I'd ever bought expensive jeans - just my luck) and I really didn't want to throw them out, so (after it became obvious the scorch was permanent) I thought I'd try dying them.

I bought a pack of the Dylon Wash & Dye "velvet black", followed the instructions, and I'm really pleased with the result! There is absolutely no sign of the scorched area now (I wasn't sure it would absorb the dye in the same way). I was pleasantly surprised that the stitching didn't absorb any dye so now vivdly stands out (more than before). The care label was also unaffected. The only slight downside is they look a bit too "new", having lost the lighter patches, but that's a small price to pay for having saved my jeans.

The washing machine did retain some dye around the rubber but a quick wash with a cloth soaked in a bleach solution quickly sorted that out.

Hope this is helpful to someone!

Richard

seabright

I've often re-dyed black jeans, but never blue, so this is good to know.

Fruball

I always dye my faded jeans so they look new again

SIRENS

I dyed a pair of jean shorts ultraviolet back in youth but forgot to add the setting salt, first time I worn them it rained and dyed my legs a lovely purple:eek:

Lovely shade though ( the shorts not my legs:rotfl:)

sm1971

I've just dyed a white jacket I never wore to a greyish-blue and I love it. Whole new lease of life of a few quid (and cheaper than a new jacket too)

meritaten

oh dear - I go the other way and bleach new jeans to fade them!!!!!!!! I like the 'old and battered' look with jeans.

suzybloo

I redye many things and it definitely gives them a new lease of life. Recently it's been linen trousers, cotton cardigans and the thing I was most pleased with was a good quality cotton bathroom set that I paid a fair price for a few years back, it was looking very faded but the thickness was still there so for £5 I have a new looking set :-)

karren

ive dyed my linen trousers a few times back black and so far on thier 4th summer and few comments of are they new! bargain

booter

seabright wrote: »

I've often re-dyed black jeans, but never blue, so this is good to know.

I think the OP is saying they dyed their blue jeans black

meritaten wrote: »

oh dear - I go the other way and bleach new jeans to fade them!!!!!!!! I like the 'old and battered' look with jeans.

I quite like the slightly faded look too, but had a go a dying my slightly over faded (if that's possible?!) favourite blue jeans blue - just to try and give them another couple of years and I've gone right off them now The denim "weave" and faded areas are now gone completely - they're just a solid blue. And even though I bought a "jeans blue" colour, IMO it's just not, it's mid blue. I'm absolutely gutted. Meritaten, how do you bleach your jeans to fade them (and do you think it's possible to do it to remove the dye) without making them a sludgy whitish blue colour?
Or maybe I'm just gonna end up with (yet) another pair of black jeans :cool: