Stubborn stains had relegated Lucianne Tonti’s favourite silk clothes to the back of the closet. With the help of a professional dyeing service, she gives them a jet-black refresh
favourite silk clothes to the back of the closet. With the help of a professional dyeing service, she gives them a jet-black refreshcalled the “rule of five”, it was created by the British fashion editor Tiffanie Darke in response to an alarmingI expected to find the challenge easy.
I also found a light and dark grey digitally printed silk dress from my early 20s that I’d loved. It was sleeveless, cut on the bias and draped across the body and high across the neck. I’m now 36 and it’s too short and sheer for me. But, thanks to the way bias cuts move, I can wear it as a top. The silk had aged in places, turning the grey yellow and brown.
The cost varies depending on how complicated the construction of each item is and gets cheaper when items are dyed in bulk. Dyeing one shirt costs $55; dyeing a two to four costs $45 each. A short, unlined dress, like my soon-to-be top, costs $79.You can buy new shirts and dresses for less than this, so I understand balking at the expense. But it’s near impossible to find new silk garments so beautifully constructed at these prices.
The results were a perfect dark solid black. The dress took the dye with more intensity because it is sheer and has less weight than the shirt, meaning more dye relative to the surface area. The shirt’s stitching was still white, leaving a pretty contrast to the black along each of the seams, including the collar and the buttonholes. Both garments felt slightly smaller, as though the black dye had caused them to shrink slightly, but the texture of the silk remained the same.
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