Where to get a dress dyed?

fionav3

I hope I'm posting this in the right place. I have a lovely cotton wrap dress that I love but it's a few years old and the colour has started to fade (the material is still perfect). The colour of the dress is khaki green and it's a colour I'm not gone on so I want to dye the dress black (would love to dye it red but I know that won't take). My question is, does anyone know of a place in Limerick city or Clare that dyes clothes? I'm too afraid to do it myself in case I mess it up.

Any help or advice would be much appreciated.

Michellenman

Why not give it a go yourself first? Even if you do mess it up, you're going to be dying it black again anyway I've used those in-machine sachets for dying clothes and it's just like putting in a regular wash except with added salt :P It's works really well and you could save yourself a fortune

Other than that, if you take the dress to a laundrette or dress makers they might be able to dye it for you

Hope that helps

fionav3

Okay, I'll give that a try. Thank you Michelle.

E.T.

The machine dyes do a great job - just check to make sure that the dress is 100% cotton. I dyed a few things before and one of them was a vest, the trim along the bust and the straps weren't cotton and they went pink instead of red like the rest of the vest. Luckily it looked as if it was meant to be like that!

Rasmus

If the dress is 100% cotton, you can easily dye it red if that is the color you really want! Dylon have a color stripper that you use first, similar to dying but it's removing the original color. Then you can dye it red, after you are left with the bleached product. I've done this several times.

fionav3

Rasmus wrote: »

If the dress is 100% cotton, you can easily dye it red if that is the color you really want! Dylon have a color stripper that you use first, similar to dying but it's removing the original color. Then you can dye it red, after you are left with the bleached product. I've done this several times.

Legend! Rasmus, thank you!