Dyeing Pants to match Indy's?

[lantzn]

OK I bought some of the really nice microfiber pants from LL Bean everyone talks so highly of.
They were on sale and did not have any of the taupe color so I went with the cement color.
It's a very light grey. I'm thinking of dyeing them to a KOTCS color.
Any suggestions on the dye brand, color or procedures would be appreciated.
Amount of water to dye, length of time soaking, etc. would be helpful.

The pants;
http://www.llbean.com/webapp/wcs/stores ... ppxs&dds=y

[Dalexs]

I would try the following:

RIT Tan
Big Pot on stove
Simmer about 20-30 mnutes.

Follow directions on packet.

FYI
Washing machine method never delivers satisfactory results.
Buy one, a big pot can always be used for other stuff like cooking big pots of spaghetti sauce...

[generalFROSTY]

I have the taupe ones and the color looks pretty good though could still be a bit darker brown.
I also just got my AB shirt in the mail, hoping that the khaki color of it would make the pants appear darker when worn together, but I have confirmed that they could use a dying.

[lantzn]

Sorry about the link. My pants are pleated and I've updated the link to show the correct pants.

These pants are 100% polyester and after reading some info I found out it is VERY difficult to dye polyester. Also the dyes for polyester are few in color and the colors are no where near what is needed. These pants are really comfortable and look great. I'll just use them as is until I find something closer.
http://www.pburch.net/dyeing/dispersedye.shtml

[Dalexs]

Actually, dyeing plolyester is not that hard... having polyester hold the color... now thats a whole 'nother ballgame.

I try to steer away from anything that contains poly because it just doesn't work well at all.

Cotton: you can repro results every time.
Polyester: IF the color holds, it's playing darts blindfolded and drunk. (DUCK!!!)

[generalFROSTY]

Todd's has been working on a SA pair for a while now but havent heard anything lately. What I have now should do fine in the meantime.

[Chamorro]

Hi.

If you want a CS look, I would suggest buying another set of pants as the ones you've boughten don't have pleats in them (unless I saw the picture wrong), while CS do.

I've found the following pants from LL Bean to be good "close enough" choices:

Washable Year-Round Wool Trousers, Pleated - Khaki.

Double L® Chinos, Classic Fit Pleated - the $30 ones in Dark Khaki.

CS had more of a beige color for the warehouse scene; however, if you take a look at the "Empire" picture, dark khaki looks good on Indy as well. Here's the pic of the Empire cover:

http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2008/03/28/i ... empire.jpg

Hope this will be of benefit to you. Best of luck!

IndyRiv

uh ... "boughten?"

[binkmeisterRick]

bought·en (bôtn) Chiefly Northern U.S.
v.
A past participle of buy.
adj.
1. Commercially made; purchased, as opposed to homemade: boughten bread.
2. Artificial; false. Used of teeth.
Regional Note: American regional dialects allow freer adjectival use of certain past participles of verbs than does Standard English. Time-honored examples are boughten (chiefly Northern U.S.) and bought (chiefly Southern U.S.) to mean "purchased rather than homemade": a boughten dress, bought bread. The Northern form boughten (as in store boughten) features the participial ending -en, added to bought, the participial form, probably by analogy with more common participial adjectives such as frozen. Another development, analogous to homemade, is evident in bought-made, cited in DARE from a Texas informant.

[Chamorro]

Okay. So it's a colloquialism. How quaint.