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rar210 · Marc Jacobs

Anyone have any experience dying clothes??

gruiz · Kenneth Cole

Here's some info from RIT about dying different types of fabrics:

http://www.ritdye.com/a.asp

Since your top is mostly cotton, it sounds like it will work. I guess you have to decide whether it's worth the risk of ruining your shirt. Like, if you don't wear it that often because it's white and would wear it all the time if it were brown, I'd give it a shot.

mikacat · Coach

i have dyed stuff--with Rit dye

ruins your washer--it just gets everywhere

you might want to do it at a laundry mat/

or if you use your own washer--

run bleach cycles 3 or 4 times before you do laundry and then start with dark loads

rar210 · Marc Jacobs

A friend and I dyed a top for Halloween (needed orange for her Velma costume - we went as the Scooby Doo gang) We dyed it on the stove in a pot. It turned out great! But I'm still debating.

HeatherLynn · Gucci

I have done it the only problem I have had other than the washer is spotting. Sometimes there are parts that would be darker or lighter than others. This only happen once so I think it might have been the fabric so I would be careful to make sure that it is a cotton top.

Dizzy · Marc Jacobs

One thing I found, is that sometimes the thread in the stitching takes the dye more strongly, so if this will look really weird, be careful. Oh, and it helps to have as big a pot as possible to allow for even dying. I liked to dye a small peice of fabric in a similar blend first, just to get an idea of what the color will turn out to be. That's pretty inconvenient, though, so if you don't care if the top is ruined I guess you could just go for it.