https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/dark-denim-staining Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Sat, 02 May 2026 16:39:06 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/dark-denim-staining#post-300701 Sun, 20 Feb 2011 02:17:24 +0000 Kate 300701@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Another vote for white vinegar! I use it after dying items with RIT dye too. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/dark-denim-staining#post-300654 Sun, 20 Feb 2011 00:19:25 +0000 biscuitsmom 300654@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Great tips! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/dark-denim-staining#post-300652 Sun, 20 Feb 2011 00:04:20 +0000 lynne 300652@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thank you, Elly, for explaining! I did wonder why, and I like to know that sort of thing. I used to teach 4th grade science. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/dark-denim-staining#post-300645 Sat, 19 Feb 2011 23:31:36 +0000 Mamapicklejuice 300645@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I had heard just adding a couple tablespoons of vinegar to a wash...</p> <p>is that the amount you guys are talking about when you say to "soak in vinegar"? You mean a vinegar/water solution, right? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/dark-denim-staining#post-300618 Sat, 19 Feb 2011 22:27:21 +0000 CocoLion 300618@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Hi Kyle -- I just suffer through having blue stained hands and wait... and wait. Never tried the vinegar method. I do not wear really light clothing this time of year so it's not too bad. My furniture is not light either. </p> <p>I have a newer pair of 7FAMs as well, straight leg. When my boyfriend's hands were also turning blue also I concluded 1) this must be pretty strong dye and 2) he must be touching my backside more than I realized, LOL!</p> <p>Denise</p> <p>PS -- Elly you are so smart! Thanks for sharing that info! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/dark-denim-staining#post-300613 Sat, 19 Feb 2011 22:17:20 +0000 Elly 300613@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>He he he . . . want to know why both the pickling salt and/or the vinegar will work? I will be a science geek and tell you! It is because they are mordants---- chemical substances used to set dyes. Alum (you can buy it in the spice isle, also good to put on canker sores) mixed with water is probably the best of the easily obtained, non-dangerous household ones, imo! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/dark-denim-staining#post-300572 Sat, 19 Feb 2011 20:44:29 +0000 Patty 300572@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Soak an hour in a tub of water with pickling salt (salt that does not have iodine added) dissolved then wash. My Mom swears by this method--I remember her doing this since the days of wringer washers. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/dark-denim-staining#post-300554 Sat, 19 Feb 2011 19:46:47 +0000 bella 300554@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>My BR denim skirt did this to me. It took a couple of washings to stop the fabric staining. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/dark-denim-staining#post-300553 Sat, 19 Feb 2011 19:40:33 +0000 Steph 300553@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>The trick I have read and tried is soaking the jeans in white vinegar, and then washing them. In my experience, this usually works, although I had a pair of Joe's Jeans that this never worked for--in fact, the ink still rubs off on my hands, three years after purchasing the jeans. I have other Joe's Jeans of the same wash without that problem, so I wonder if I might have gotten a pair that was defective. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/dark-denim-staining#post-300547 Sat, 19 Feb 2011 19:34:52 +0000 Kyle 300547@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I have a pair of dark denim "Seven" bellbottom jeans. I've washed them once, according to instructions, and the dark denim is transferring to my hands (and probably other things) quite noticeably. By the end of the day my hands look like I have been working in the dirt or dipping in ink. Is there a trick to overcoming this, or does it just take time? </p>