WIW 4/8: Unstructured Shirt Dress and a Dye Transfer Disaster :(

It has been pretty cold this whole week here but today I decided to be brave and wear my favorite cutout booties despite the low temperatures. I have the same BR denim shirt dress as Angie's one featured on today's blog post and I wore it over cropped white LOFT skinnies. I also added a chunky pearl/ribbon BR necklace, JC cutout booties, my trusty silver RM satchel and white MK watch. I wore a navy wool coat over the whole thing outside but did not take a photo of it. My feet got just a tad chilly but I was fine.

Unfortunately, when I got home I noticed that a lot of the indigo dye from the shirt dress has transferred onto my brand new white skinnies- I only wore them once before. I am very upset about this and would really appreciate any advice on how to remove the dye from the jeans. The skinnies are 97% cotton, 3% spandex and the tag say to wash cold and use only non-chlorine bleach.

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Mochi

Veteran

I'm sorry to hear about the dye transfer. My wild guess would be to bleach the jeans to get them back to white? What is non-chlorine bleach, though??

Great outfit!

Janet

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That's a great springtime outfit! Bummer about the color transfer. I've had that happen, and the color washed out in the regular laundry. Try just washing it as you normally would, maybe with a little stain remover (Shout or something) sprayed on the area with the dye. I hope it comes out!

JAileen

What about using those sheets that go in the washer and absorb dye. I don't know if they would work in this situation. Maybe use as a last resort. I would be leery about using bleach. I would be afraid of yellowing.

Rambling Ann

Nothing to say about dye transfer but those are some cute booties

Diana

I'd try a magic eraser first, then the shout stain remover. There's a version of the shout that comes in a stick form (like a giant glue stick) that is I think more concentrated and you can rub it in and scrub a bit before tossing in the wash. I've managed to get ground in lipstick out of a light colored rug with it.

I wouldn't use bleach as it can turn things yellow.

Eta: cold water wash and no dryer/heat until you know the stain is gone.

Angie

Fashion Stylist

OH NO. How can that happen to you and not me? I am wearing the same dress with white cropped skinnies and oxfords today and there is no dye transfer on the white jeans at all????

Soak in Oxy- Clean. You look Killer Fabulous nonetheless.

This is what I wore today. High five!

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donutty

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Don't bleach it!!! Use Rit Dye Powdered Fabric Dye Color Remover (sold on Amazon, Joanns, and Walmart).

Good luck! That must have been so disappointing.

El Cee

You look lovely -- but sorry you had a dye transfer problem. I second donutty's suggestion of using Rit Color Remover Powder… or Carbona Color Run Remover. Oxy-Clean might also work. Good luck Tanya.

Anonymous

Those are some nice shoes, and bag Tanya! The short dress looks like the right shape and length for you.
Hopefully you can get the dye out. (I think it'll come out.)

rabbit

Try oxiclean, it's a non-chlorine stain remover (often called a non-chlorine bleach) and doesn't seem to damage anything white I've tried it with. I've soaked my white Loft skinnies in a solution of a half to a third cup of the powder and a gallon or two of water left overnight (I'm filling a big pot and soaking other things too, it's not an exact science) multiple times and they seem fine after a cold water wash and hanging to dry.

nancylee

Such a cute outfit, Tanya! LOVE those unique shoes. So sorry about the color transfer. Looks like you have a lot of good tips on how to clean the white skinnies. Good luck!

So cool that you and Angie were outfit twins today.

Suz

Fabulous outfit, Tanya! Love the shoes with the silver bag. And how fun that Angie wore almost the identical combination today! I am hoping that rabbit's solution works for the dye transfer.

Tanya

Thank you very much for the nice words about the outfit, ladies, and thank you even more for a;; the advice on the white skinnies problem! I will try Rabbit's solution first and if that doesn't work, try some of the alternatives.
I really appreciate all the suggestions, you are the best!

SW Ann

I, too, have used the oxi clean soap method as rabbit said. I never could get cotton rich whites back to white until I discovered oxi clean...Best product ever!!

Firecracker (Sharan)

What a great outfit! I love the whole look, head to toe. I hope you get out the dye, and let us know which solution worked!

Debora

So sorry to hear what happened. I really do love your outfit. I'd give Oxy-Clean a try, too. I used to use it on muddy, white pants back when I was the "uniform mom" for the high school marching band. Good luck!

VioletMyra

Wow . . . you people are full of great suggestions that are so much easier than what I do.

I'm a soap and water girl and acquired leather dye off a shoulder bag rubbing on my white jeans. I scrubbed the stain with a nail brush loaded with Sunlight soap, tossed the jeans in with the whites and machine washed. Stain was gone . . . unfortunately so are the jeans due to my "blossoming" as I've aged <ggg>.

Best wishes for your stain removal and I hope your jeans finish up bright white.

Denise

rachylou

I'd try Carbona color run remover. Carbona makes removers specific to types of stains. Most stain removers are generalists. I've had really really good results with them. Sold at Safeway and on Amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/.....n+removers

Mirjana

Fantastic outfit, love it much even I am not keen of unstructured shirt dress.

First, I would cry. Then I would try Oxyclean. Hope it works for you.

Oh, no Tanya! That's such a shame. we have something similar to Oxiclean here in the UK, so I would definitely try that if I were you. I think you look so great in your outfit too. What a great combo. How fab that Angie is sporting the same too

Summer

Your outfit is gorgeous, Tanya, but what a shame about the staining. You've had plenty of advice for dealing with the marks, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it works.

Helen11

Great outfit! How cool that you and Angie were twins today. Good luck with stain removal. Such a disappointing thing to happen. Had you washed the dress before? (I have a denim dress I have yet to wear.....)

dakotacheryl

Whatever you do, don't dry the pants in the dryer until you're sure the color has been removed!!

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