Q for those who dye jeans

[Turquoiseblue]

I want to dye my Topshop Jamies
They once were a caramel colour but have now faded and I look nude when I wear them. Is Dylon the main colour brand? Would love an indigo colour - can anyone recommend a dye they ve used. I ve done this before with black jeans that had faded a bit and it helped but I m a bit sceptical as to whether the colour will take/ stay as well if I go for a lighter one. Any tips ?

I just dyed my kirstens with dylon navy blue..and they look brill..but they were blue before. I think it will work fine but could take a couple of gos to get them the right clour.

I've dyed a few jeans, no complaints, the Dylon jeans blue color will fade a bit with subsequent washes but are still very dark and worth the faff. If caramel is yellowish, dyeing with any blue can result in a greenish shade - is that ok?

I found that Dylon jeans blue turns slightly petrol, Dylon navy will result in pure cool-toned dark blue.

There is also Rit Dye with many more shades - haven't tried it yet.

If the stitching is polyester - which it probably is - then that won't take the dye. This might give a nice contrast, but might not.

I've used Dylon machine dye to re-dye black and blue jeans to their original colour with good results, but never changed the colour of the jeans completely.

I think it would be impossible to get them indigo as you are dying over colour, so usual colour rules apply, they would go greenish/purple-ish (depending on wheter the colour they are now is yellow or pink based) or sludgy.

You could only really dye them brown or back or back to camel.

It is very unlikely the stitching will take, nothing high street is sewn with cotton, but as I imagine the stitching is probably brownish, this will look fine, most jeans have contrast stitching.

brown or black or back to camel.

Brown or black sounds like the safest bet then thanks so much

I found the dark blue jeans colour to be really brash, and not nice if that makes sense. A bit early 1990s!

I'd go with black, but beware, the stitching might really stand out if it is pale.

Just remember the dye might not take to the stitching ( jeans cotton, stitching usually polyester). So maybe dye them back to original colour.