this month's challenge

[fox]

I need black jeans.

There aren't any.

Well - not precisely true. But here's the thing: I can't wear any pants with "skinny" in their name. The shape just isn't right. Everything I've found that exists in black doesn't fit in one way or another; usually the rise is too low, because where I'm carrying some weight I'd rather not be carrying just now makes my lower belly a little cushy, which uses up more rise than a flatter belly would, and my waist is already quite high, which means mid-rise pants on me are pretty low and low-rise are laughable. The nearest approximation I've found in an affordable option was at Target, of all places, where one size was a little too small (enough that wearing them for a couple of hours wouldn't ease it enough) and the next size up was much too big.

Sigh.

So my latest brilliant plan is to buy blue jeans in a style I know fits comfortably, and overdye them. I have never done this. Who has pointers?

Comments

[sneezer222]

Rit dye works pretty good, just remember that for the black you need to double the amount of dye. Two boxes or an entire bottle of the liquid.

[fox]

So if they recommend starting with two boxes, should I go to three or to four? (And if I want to do three pair of jeans, can I do them all together with a half-dozen dye boxes, or should I do them separately?)

[sneezer222]

Do them all together. I would say for three pairs of jeans you should do 3 or 4 boxes of dye or 1 1/2 to 2 bottles of dye. And add salt as it recommends.