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this month's challenge
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?
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?
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Note: I have used their products extensively on silk but only the once on cotton, so YMMV.