Failsafe way to make jeans colourfast?

[SloanePeterson]

Google can't agree and I need to try something today. I've bought some new jeans which I just know are going to end up colouring my legs, everything I sit down on for weeks etc and I'm determined to stop it this time. Next seem to be the worst culprits for this but I haven't found any jeans which fit as nicely on my frankly wreck of a body so I keep going back. But I've had enough of my bags being ruined by having the colour bleed onto them. What can I actually do to stop this happening? It seems vinegar and salt get thrown around a bit as a solution but do either actually work?

i have never had jeans colour my legs in the last 20 years. before then, occasionally. cant help, sorry!

They just seem to completely over dye their dark jeans, I've had it with several pairs now

I've had a few pairs from next and never had any issue . I guess wash them before you wear them ?

I get this with very cheap jeans, but 99% of the time anything from next/M&S or similar doesn't do it to me unless I happen to get very hot (ie riding or in wellies all day) or very very wet.

All I can suggest is to wash them over and over, but I'm afraid if they're likely to run dye onto your legs then they'll end up a totally different colour to the one you started with- I have a number of royal blue and grey jeans from primark that used to be navy and black as testament to this fact!

This never happens to me either. My last few pairs have been from M and S and White Stuff.

In my teens I did the vinegar overnight soak but only with black jeans. We're talking late nineties/early noughties though so there was no stretch yet (at teenage budgets anyhow) and most was still 100% cotton denim so I don't know how it would work now. Also, think it only applied to black denim as they were dyed twice back then (so blue denim was dyed further). All it did was stop the jeans from fading quickly, there wasn't an actual issue with dye bleeding when you were wearing them iyswim.

I've only encountered dye that isn't fixed in cheaper denim and that seems to be more of a recent issue. Considering most of that is produced in developing countries with terrible H&S records I shudder to think what kind of toxic dye they use and lingers on the skin as a result.

Anyhow, vinegar is cheap so worth a punt? I just took a plastic bag and submerged the jeans overnight before giving them a wash then did the stupid thing of sitting in a bathtub full of water with your jeans on to get a perfect fit, which was still shit.

Incidentally, DD is only allowed black jeans at school (6th form), and they do fade after several washes. I just bought some black dye from Wilkos and ran the jeans through the washer with the dye. The jeans came out looking brand new.

I got this brilliant advice from good old mumsnet.

Unfortunately, you can't completely make dark jeans colourfast to washing.

Re-dyeing them every now and again is your best bet.

Or you could do what the denim obsessives do with raw denim; stick worn pairs in the freezer to kill the bacteria and brush off the dirt.

mad ex boyfriend

Maybe I'm just a sweaty oik then as this has happened with every single pair I've ever bought from Next. I had a new pair on last year when I went to have my wisdom teeth out and had to explain when I got into my gown that my legs weren't actually blue

It does it to me too OP! I buy new jeans so rarely that last time it happened after buying a new pair I genuinely thought i must have a blood clot as my skin was turning blue.

No advice, just wash a few times I suppose, and try not to sit on anything light coloured.