Gutted: advice plse!!

[Jellybellyrbest]

Put my LO's brand new bodysuits on to wash pre-wearing. They were strong red patterns with a cream background. Put them in with other coloured items in a 50 degree wash. They've come out with the lively creak background a grey/blue. Put them straight back in on their own through a 50 degree wash. Still grey...is there ANYTHING I can do now? Thx.

Why 50 degree? This is too hot, hence your mishap

Did the label give a temp?

putting a brand new red item in the machine at 50 for the first wash without a colour catcher? why?

you could try a whites brightener, not sure how that would affect the red though.. were they expensive?

Don't put them on baby when someone else is babysitting .

If label says 50 degrees then I would take them back! But that's a long shot..

The label says 40. Didn't check-just chucked them in. Completely my own fault :-(

If something has a bright pattern but a cream or white background i always assume it wont run. Other wise the pattern would run into the white/cream of the garment. So I always wash these items with other light/white items.

No help now but try it for future items.

Maybe they wont look too bad on? blue/grey is pretty!

You might get somewhere rewashing with the stuff sold for removing colour run.

Worked a treat when I didn't realise my pale blue skirt was died with unfixed indigo like dye.

Turned a lovely lemon outfit of DD2s a very nasty green.

This stuff worked for me in a similar situation www.dylon.co.uk/product.php?alias=colour-run-removers
I rarely wash anything hotter than 40 though as it'll shrink it if nothing else.

Thx Wonky. Already tried it & it didn't work. Have learned my lesson & turned temp down to 40 on machine.
Lost: normally do that but was trying to do too many things at once with a colicky 4 wk old crying in the background....
Oh well: they were from Next & not too expensive but Scandinavian style pattern (red hippos on a cream background). Spied them before DD was born & promised them to myself if I had a girl....

take them back and say you washed at 40

shame!!!! I would be gutted as i know what it is like when yoiu see sometiung in the shops while pregnant and then get for the new arrival. I do this kind of stuff all the time and also use the colour run removals stuff (must get the colour one, not the whites brightening one) - in fact you've reminded me I need to get some - ds1s cricket whites are currently blue/grey.

I find the colour run removal stuff does help a bit - won't be like new but might be good enough. TBH though in your situation with a new baby, I would either treat myself to a new pack and keep the others as spares in the changing bag or whatever (eevn if this hadn't hapenned, it is probably only a matter of time before a squirt of baby poo ruins one anyway so I think you can justify having 2 sets).

OR

I would take them back and say you washed them at 40 and are really disappointed that they still ran - then re-buy on a different day. Bad, I know, but you deserve a break I'm sure.

Red is a very unstable dye (just look at older red cars, they tend to go very dull) and any red items should be treated with care, especially red and white striped things. Not entirely relevant I know but info for the future. For adult clothes use a colour powder/liquid. Don't know what people use for babay clothes, probably not bio powders.
Also very few things need washing at 50.
Chalk it up to experience. Taken them back and telling a lie is cheating, tantamount to stealing and makes prices go up for everyone.

I bought the same set and could post you the hippo one if that helps? I'm keeping the stripy one as it was my gorgeous DD's coming home outfit. It is only newborn size tho.