It took me all day to realize my black pants have faded severely. I like them and they fit alright, if I dyed them black would they look newer?
Usually, from my experience.
Mal: There's plenty orders of mine that she didn't obey. Wash: Name one! Mal: She married you!
'War Stories'
Spike's Bitches 28: For the Safety of Puppies...and Christmas!
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
DCJensen - Jan 20, 2006 10:11:23 am PST #5470 of 10001
All is well that ends in pizza.
Ginger - Jan 20, 2006 10:16:22 am PST #5471 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I've done that with black jeans for years, askye.
DavidS - Jan 20, 2006 10:17:17 am PST #5472 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
if I dyed them black would they look newer?
Jilli avers that dying things black doesn't really get them black enough. Though I expect that may be things which were previously another color. Not sure how it would work on already black jeans.
Tom Scola - Jan 20, 2006 10:21:17 am PST #5473 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Yay, juliana!
tommyrot - Jan 20, 2006 10:23:47 am PST #5474 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Jilli avers that dying things black doesn't really get them black enough. Though I expect that may be things which were previously another color.
From my limited experience, dying blue denim still leaves some of the blue visible, so you end up with very dark blue. Dying black or gray (or grey) seems to be fine.
Steph L. - Jan 20, 2006 10:27:44 am PST #5475 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
If you called your doctor and begged for her/him to call in a Flexeril scrip
Chatty!co-worker gave me a Voltaren (it sounds like a Battlebot, doesn't it? the generic is dronabinol, and it's just an Rx analgesic), and it seems to have beaten back most of the pain. Only now I'm having weird flashbacks to when my back was so injured right before my surgery, because it's the same time of year, same weather, and now I'm all kind of loopy on painkillers. Freaky. I keep trying to not react from the atavistic sense-memory part of my brain.
Katerina Bee - Jan 20, 2006 10:32:38 am PST #5476 of 10001
Herding cats for fun
The success of dying depends upon the quality of the fabric and also of the dye. Rit dyes were always disappointing to me and their black = sorta gray. I've had better luck with the Procion dyes. Cotton and wool will soak up color, and it might set. Worn fabrics can shed all applied colors in the wash. Polyester and acetate will probably be unchanged by a dye bath.
Atropa - Jan 20, 2006 10:47:00 am PST #5477 of 10001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Jilli avers that dying things black doesn't really get them black enough. Though I expect that may be things which were previously another color. Not sure how it would work on already black jeans.
Things that were already black and just need to be rescued from their faded state take black dye very well. I second Katerina Bee's comments about RIT, and the superiority of Procion. (This reminds me, I must stir the silk skirt I have soaking in a sealed dye bath. It's only been there a week or so ...)
Yay juliana!
Jessica - Jan 20, 2006 10:52:23 am PST #5478 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
§ ita § - Jan 20, 2006 11:04:05 am PST #5479 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.