Removing permanent marker from tag

[mystal]

Does anyone know how to remove permanent marker from a tag?

Bought a jacket with a big red mark on the tag - a final sale, so I guess it is to prevent returns. I don't want to take off the jacket and have the big red mark show. Any way of removing this? Tried rubbing alcohol and nail polish remover, but didn't help.

 

[TRINI]

Why not just remove the tag?

 

[SpooPoker]

You like it, teh Tom Ford?

 

[sonlegoman]

Take a red marker and mark the rest of the tag red.

 

[dragon8]

Use Aqua-Net hair-spray. It used to work with another brand (don't remember the name) that they used a marker to distinguish it if you bought it at the outlet.

 

[celeste_pista]

Originally Posted by TRINI

Why not just remove the tag?

this.

 

[bleachboy]

Man, if some dude took his jacket off, and I saw that the Hermes label had a big red mark on it, I would all want to be his friend and stuff.

 

[SpooPoker]

Originally Posted by bleachboy

Man, if some dude took his jacket off, and I saw that the Hermes label had a big red mark on it, I would all want to be his friend and stuff.

PTWillams, he is talking to you.

 

[Klobber]

Originally Posted by bleachboy

Man, if some dude took his jacket off, and I saw that the Hermes label had a big red mark on it, I would all want to be his friend and stuff.

Absolutely hilarious

As to the OP - red tag? Suck it up and accept it. Deal with the conflicting emotions. Call it natures vengeance for being getting an item at a rock bottom price where others before you paid double, maybe triple what you paid.

If the red tag bothers you that much, remove it, simple as.

Other option, I assume background is white, so buy some Tippex or thin white paint and go over the red marks. Or buy a permanent white marker and do the honors.

Take jacket into a paint store / home depot and find a matching paint

 

[stubloom]

Do not spray with hairspray. Depending on the jacket's fabric, hairspray can add to the problem (especially if the jacket is silk). Instead of one stain, you now have two stains to remove.

I would advise you to take the jacket to a dry cleaner, ask him to apply a POG (paint/oil/grease remover) to the red ink, flush out the red ink with steam (making sure to flush directly into a white terry towel so as not to spread or splatter the ink), then dry clean as usual.

Any competent dry cleaner should be able to handle that.

You'll want to do that sooner rather than later. If you wear the jacket and then take it to a dry cleaner, and the dry cleaner doesn't notice that there is a red ink stain on the label, that ink stain could "run" in the cleaning, possibly transferring onto other parts of your jacket or onto other garments in that same load.

Removing the red ink from the label of a heavily discounted garment is part of the price you pay for the privilege of having saved all that money!

 

[DixieTexian]

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