How do you bleach jeans

[spainlads]

I've just been bought a pair of dark blue jeans, but they are just to dark for me. So how do you bleach them?

[tradey]

well years ago back in the old days we used to put them in a bath with cold water and bottle of bleach other than that dont know

[4getmenot]

Go out and buy proper material bleach as normal household stuff like demestos etc. rots the fabric.

[VINNY100_2]

We use to put them in the cement mixer with a couple of house bricks. Also my mate had a speed boat in the sixties,and we would all tie are new jeans together and and go around Bournemouth bay a few times...(:)

[sammd]

Jeans fade as you wear/wash them so perhaps lots of washing?!

[Goodsoulette]

dont bleach them you dont know what the base colour will be, the best way is to take thwe zesty side of a grater and run that doen the centre of each leg. Denim is surprisingly durable, the look will look fashionable not chavtastic at the end.

[FTVS]

Wash them with Vanish Oxi whatchamacallit in teh machine a few times and they will fade.

[natalie_1982]

Why don't you take them back and get a new pair?

[spainlads]

They were bought VERY cheap from Asda in Manchester by my mother-in-law. I live in Spain.

[natalie_1982]

I see. If you are in Spain what about leaving them out in direct sun? (have no idea how hot it is over there at the mo!).

If they are very cheap then maybe the dye will come out after a few washes, dunk them in the bath in really hot water and see if that works.

[sammd]

Yeah, do them on a 90 degree wash, or whatever the hottest temperature is that your washing machine goes to.

[yummy]

I wore my dark blue jeans to the beach a few years ago and they turned lighter (just the bottoms). So try salty water girl!