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Dye Old Jeans To Look New

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Date: 04/21/2008 Topics: Clothing > Repairing | Parenting > General Parenting  
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We have 5 daughters. As a result, a lot of clothes get passed down as hand me downs. The younger ones complain about the jeans already being faded out. If they are still decent jeans, I don't want to buy more. So, what I do is Rit dye them back. One box of dye will do several pairs of jeans or jean cut offs.

By April from NW Missouri
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By Barb Ivory (Guest Post)
I Have a question, do you put that dye in your washer? And does it come out of your washer? I would love to dye all my faded BLACK jeans to keep them dark black- but I'm afraid of ruining my washing machine. How do you dye them?

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By Liz (Guest Post)
What a great tip, thanks

Liz

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By susanmajp (944) Profile Contact
Great idea, especially this season since dark and colcoed jeans will be in.

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By Paula Jo Carr Mebane, NC (Guest Post)
GOOD FOR YOU and your thrifty-ness. I too use rit dye to change the color of our bath towels, kitchen towels and even our bed sheets AS they are all so expensive. This way it seems like they are new (but they are not). I have the same linens and towels that we have had since 1995 I have only changed the colors on them all as my tastes in decorating has changed. NOW that isn't bad on our families budget at all. Try it you too will be amazed as I was.

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By cookwie (1260) Profile Contact
I used to do the same thing years ago. The darker the color, the thinner I look!

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By louel53 (624) Contact
Good tip -- but I always thought faded jeans were desirable. Why else do people buy stonewashed ??

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