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If I use some of this dye to restore a black t with a print, is it likely to fuck up the print or dye over it? Only ever used this stuff on jeans..
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Usually the rule is if the print has faded with the shirt then a re-dye will dye the print too.
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What Nick said + if the print has started cracking at all the ink will fill the cracks, which will look shit
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ok cheers, its an old uc t-shirt so print appears to be still uncracked/intact, will try it out..
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If it's the kind of print that can crack, like a kind of plastic film (as opposed to a design that was originally dyed into the fabric that has no surface feel to it), then the dye shouldn't effect the actual print but like Robi said it will dye the fabric you can see inside the cracks, which can look crap.
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i want to dye some v light beige 100% cotton chinos to choc brown.
would the end result be patchy and fade badly in wash or is it def worth doing?
no experience of this dylon malarkey.
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will work fine on cotton, especially if the tones being dyed are neutral.
i'm just about to do an old kenzo shirt.
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i could never wear anything home made dyed or even home made.
i got enuff clothes to not have to dye old ones.
also ive got enuff money to just buy something in the colour i need it rather than revamp something my big brother gave me thats faded thru a 1000 washes.
either way, why the fuck do you bother? (no beef, if its for poverty reasons and saving money to eat, ignore my post please))
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kid unknown wrote:
i want to dye some v light beige 100% cotton chinos to choc brown.
would the end result be patchy and fade badly in wash or is it def worth doing?
no experience of this dylon malarkey.
The only problem will be the colour of the stitching. It will probably be synthetic and won't take the dye so you'll have chocolate brown chinos with beige stitching
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take a small bit of the thread and hold it close to a lighter, and see whether it melts or burns
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Noble Locks wrote:
i could never wear anything home made dyed or even home made.
i got enuff clothes to not have to dye old ones.
also ive got enuff money to just buy something in the colour i need it rather than revamp something my big brother gave me thats faded thru a 1000 washes.
either way, why the fuck do you bother? (no beef, if its for poverty reasons and saving money to eat, ignore my post please))
if i could get these chinos in this colour i would buy them but as i can't locate anywhere i may as well try dying this light beige pair that i never wear as i won't be too bothered if they end up being FTB if the end result looks shit.
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am dying the kenzo shirt (as above) this weekend. have cut off the collar to make it a mandarin type effort and am going to do it dylon orange and take it away for holidays, etc.
will post up results.
missus has been dying loads of stuff recently (towels, beanbag covers, teatowels, etc) and results have been excellent.
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dye job has worked a treat - the missus bunged in a pair of boxers for the craic too. a previously fucked £150 shirt (red wine stain), now has some service life left in it - for holidays anyway 
will bung up pics when the camera's working
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I got a juper off here, it's a kind of silly grey/beige colour, I think I'm goig to black up. Wouldn't usually do that but won't weat it in it's current colour.
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inverse square wrote:
I got a juper off here, it's a kind of silly grey/beige colour, I think I'm goig to black up. Wouldn't usually do that but won't weat it in it's current colour.
Ummm, no minstrel show?
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Evesy, me (with Kenzo shirt), & Chinese John, 2004.
kenzo shirt, with collar removed and dyed, 2010. coour is truer in pic 2.
this will be a shirt I will wear on holiday. would recommend experimenting...
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chinese john is actually fucking chinese. 
seriously thought that was some kind of a joke cos he was nigerian or something.
does he know hes nearly as big an internet star as keyboard cat, ririwan and seenmy yet evers?
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he aint fucking chinese, his folks from Hong Kong - he is from Southend.
Evesy is from the same estate as me though (he now lives in a caravan in Hampshire though).
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my bad, i just thought the whole chinese john thing was a reverse nickname if you know what i mean.
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virtually everyone I know has a nickname but there's no way I'm calling him Southend John.
there are loads of johns; john the hat, tall john, chocolate john, t-shirt john
btw - he is a tip top boy make no mistake. lived near your manor in Bushey for a while, too.
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Is chocolate john black?
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Posted: Thu, 11/02/2010 - 12:25pm
