I bought a pair of trousers at M&S for £35 and the first time I wore them I managed to splash some bleach on the knee of one leg. It's quite a small mark but they are a dark clay colour and it stands out like a sore thumb.
I've tried finding a good match amongst my kids colouring pens etc but to no avail.
I am now thinking of taking them to a paint shop and having them scanned and getting a tester pot of oil paint in the same colour.
Am I going mad or is this a sensible approach?

On 22/01/2013 13:27, wrote:
I bought a pair of trousers at M&S for £35 and the first time I wore them I managed to splash some bleach on the knee of one leg. It's quite a small mark but they are a dark clay colour and it stands out like a sore thumb.
I've tried finding a good match amongst my kids colouring pens etc but to no avail.
I am now thinking of taking them to a paint shop and having them scanned and getting a tester pot of oil paint in the same colour.
Am I going mad or is this a sensible approach?

Depends if you want them to look like you spilt bleach and then paint on
them! Your best bet is to find a permanent marker of about the right
shade and dilute it down with alcohol. Then paint it in carefully to
build up to about the right shade - matching luminosity is essential.

The hard part is getting the edge right without producing an dark ring.

I have done this to disguise damage to wood veneer furniture reasonably
well. It might work on trousers but I doubt it will ever look decent.
Wood grain helps hide a multitude of sins a flat colour is unforgiving.

Snag is that permanent markers are not all that permanent either.

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On 22/01/2013 13:27, wrote:
I bought a pair of trousers at M&S for £35 and the first time I wore them I managed to splash some bleach on the knee of one leg. It's quite a small mark but they are a dark clay colour and it stands out like a sore thumb.
I've tried finding a good match amongst my kids colouring pens etc but to no avail.
I am now thinking of taking them to a paint shop and having them scanned and getting a tester pot of oil paint in the same colour.
Am I going mad or is this a sensible approach?


I don't think that you cn get a tester pot for oil paint, only emulsion.
I did try because I only had a small area to paint but was unsuccessful.
Maybe one of the other paint brands but I don't think Dulux do.

You cannot be serious?

Seems a bit odd that a bit of bleach should do that, I wonder what the
colouring dye was?

Brian

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I bought a pair of trousers at M&S for £35 and the first time I wore them I
managed to splash some bleach on the knee of one leg. It's quite a small
mark but they are a dark clay colour and it stands out like a sore thumb.
I've tried finding a good match amongst my kids colouring pens etc but to no
avail.
I am now thinking of taking them to a paint shop and having them scanned and
getting a tester pot of oil paint in the same colour.
Am I going mad or is this a sensible approach?

Yes the telling time is the next time its in the wash.

Brian

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On 22/01/2013 13:27, wrote:
I bought a pair of trousers at M&S for £35 and the first time I wore them
I managed to splash some bleach on the knee of one leg. It's quite a
small mark but they are a dark clay colour and it stands out like a sore
thumb.
I've tried finding a good match amongst my kids colouring pens etc but to
no avail.
I am now thinking of taking them to a paint shop and having them scanned
and getting a tester pot of oil paint in the same colour.
Am I going mad or is this a sensible approach?

Depends if you want them to look like you spilt bleach and then paint on
them! Your best bet is to find a permanent marker of about the right shade
and dilute it down with alcohol. Then paint it in carefully to build up to
about the right shade - matching luminosity is essential.

The hard part is getting the edge right without producing an dark ring.

I have done this to disguise damage to wood veneer furniture reasonably
well. It might work on trousers but I doubt it will ever look decent. Wood
grain helps hide a multitude of sins a flat colour is unforgiving.

Snag is that permanent markers are not all that permanent either.

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Regards,
Martin Brown

On 22/01/2013 14:25, Brian Gaff wrote:
You cannot be serious?

Seems a bit odd that a bit of bleach should do that, I wonder what the
colouring dye was?

It is surprisingly common - bleach sees off many organic dyes.

A woman in front of me was trying to return some bathroom towels that
had obviously been damaged by spilling toilet bleach on them. The
customer service desk gave her extremely short shrift.

I was expecting to be told that the reason my shoes had failed inside a
week was that I had been wearing them but they took one look and said ah
yes the ones that the heels fall off (batch with a moulding fault).

Thinking about it wood staining dyes might be his best bet.

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I bought a pair of trousers at M&S for £35 and the first time I wore
them I managed to splash some bleach on the knee of one leg. It's quite
a small mark but they are a dark clay colour and it stands out like a
sore thumb.
I've tried finding a good match amongst my kids colouring pens etc but
to no avail.
I am now thinking of taking them to a paint shop and having them
scanned and getting a tester pot of oil paint in the same colour.
Am I going mad or is this a sensible approach?

Turn them into shorts.

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On 22/01/2013 14:44, Mike Barnes wrote:
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I bought a pair of trousers at M&S for £35 and the first time I wore
them I managed to splash some bleach on the knee of one leg. It's quite
a small mark but they are a dark clay colour and it stands out like a
sore thumb.
I've tried finding a good match amongst my kids colouring pens etc but
to no avail.
I am now thinking of taking them to a paint shop and having them
scanned and getting a tester pot of oil paint in the same colour.
Am I going mad or is this a sensible approach?

Turn them into shorts.


i would try coloured pencils and then try and seal it

I have tried various coloured pencils and markers and it is an unusual colour and difficult to get a good colour match!

On 22/01/2013 14:40, Martin Brown wrote:
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Thinking about it wood staining dyes might be his best bet.

Why not cloth dye? Rather than trying to match the colour, choose a
darker colour you like and re-dye the whole trousers.

Colin Bignell

On 22/01/2013 15:48, wrote:
I have tried various coloured pencils and markers and it is an
unusual colour and difficult to get a good colour match!


Live with it. IME anything you do will only make matters worse

On Tuesday, January 22, 2013 1:27:09 PM UTC, wrote:

I bought a pair of trousers at M&S for £35 and the first time I wore them I managed to splash some bleach on the knee of one leg. It's quite a small mark but they are a dark clay colour and it stands out like a sore thumb..
I've tried finding a good match amongst my kids colouring pens etc but to no avail.
I am now thinking of taking them to a paint shop and having them scanned and getting a tester pot of oil paint in the same colour.
Am I going mad or is this a sensible approach?

A little applique is probably the best option, but you can only get away with that if you're a woman. So you need applique and a sex change.

I wouldn't try paint, its never going to hang ok. Permanent markers could reduce visibility, but they will wash out somewhat with each wash. If you can grab a little bit of fabric off a turn up etc, thats your best bet. Its never going to look right though, whatever you do.


NT

On 1/22/2013 11:06 AM, Nightjar wrote:
On 22/01/2013 14:40, Martin Brown wrote:
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Thinking about it wood staining dyes might be his best bet.

Why not cloth dye? Rather than trying to match the colour, choose a
darker colour you like and re-dye the whole trousers.

I've tried that - the bleached area seems to take the dye differently,
though it does make it less noticeable.

On 22/01/2013 16:23, S Viemeister wrote:
On 1/22/2013 11:06 AM, Nightjar wrote:
On 22/01/2013 14:40, Martin Brown wrote:
...
Thinking about it wood staining dyes might be his best bet.

Why not cloth dye? Rather than trying to match the colour, choose a
darker colour you like and re-dye the whole trousers.

I've tried that - the bleached area seems to take the dye differently,
though it does make it less noticeable.

Bleach the entire trousers first?

Colin Bignell

On 1/22/2013 12:18 PM, Nightjar wrote:
On 22/01/2013 16:23, S Viemeister wrote:
On 1/22/2013 11:06 AM, Nightjar wrote:
On 22/01/2013 14:40, Martin Brown wrote:
...
Thinking about it wood staining dyes might be his best bet.

Why not cloth dye? Rather than trying to match the colour, choose a
darker colour you like and re-dye the whole trousers.

I've tried that - the bleached area seems to take the dye differently,
though it does make it less noticeable.

Bleach the entire trousers first?

Buy new trousers.
Use damaged ones for messy d-i-y jobs.

On 22/01/2013 16:06, Nightjar wrote:
On 22/01/2013 14:40, Martin Brown wrote:
....
Thinking about it wood staining dyes might be his best bet.

Why not cloth dye? Rather than trying to match the colour, choose a
darker colour you like and re-dye the whole trousers.

Colin Bignell

Many fabric dyes have warnings that they will not "hide" bleach marks

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On 22/01/2013 13:27, wrote:
I bought a pair of trousers at M&S for £35 and the first time I wore them I managed to splash some bleach on the knee of one leg. It's quite a small mark but they are a dark clay colour and it stands out like a sore thumb.
I've tried finding a good match amongst my kids colouring pens etc but to no avail.
I am now thinking of taking them to a paint shop and having them scanned and getting a tester pot of oil paint in the same colour.

Am I going mad

Yes

or is this a sensible approach?

No!
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On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 17:18:04 +0000, Nightjar
wrote:

Bleach the entire trousers first?

Did that with a khaki shirt, i.e. I spread the bleach stain over the entire
surface. The fabric bleached evenly and nicely, but the thread used in all the
stiching didn't...


Thomas Prufer

On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 10:41:05 +0100, Thomas Prufer
wrote:

On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 17:18:04 +0000, Nightjar
wrote:

Bleach the entire trousers first?

Did that with a khaki shirt, i.e. I spread the bleach stain over the entire
surface. The fabric bleached evenly and nicely, but the thread used in all the
stiching didn't...


I did something similar with a 35% cotton/65% polyester shirt that had
been splashed with bleach. I put it in a bucket of (diluted) bleach
for a week. When it came out, it was the same, bleached colour all
over. But only 65% polyester.

Nick

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On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 10:41:05 +0100, Thomas Prufer
wrote:

On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 17:18:04 +0000, Nightjar

wrote:

Bleach the entire trousers first?

Did that with a khaki shirt, i.e. I spread the bleach stain over the
entire
surface. The fabric bleached evenly and nicely, but the thread used in all
the
stiching didn't...


I did something similar with a 35% cotton/65% polyester shirt that had
been splashed with bleach. I put it in a bucket of (diluted) bleach
for a week. When it came out, it was the same, bleached colour all
over. But only 65% polyester.

More likely it was then 100% polyester.

On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 13:40:40 +0000, Martin Brown
wrote:

Snag is that permanent markers are not all that permanent either.

I've tried exactly this and it works - once. Pita doing it every time
the garment is washed, though.
Soon the item becomes relegated to workwear and it doesn't matter.