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Sun-dyed Pants, Re-dye fix?

dohare

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So, I had left a pair of Luxire Grey Linen pants hanging off the back seat of my car after some work travel for about a week in the heat.

I put them on today, and when I get to the clients office, I look down and it looked like there was some kind of glare, but then I realized the fabric was actually sun-dyed in certain places, and I'm ASSUMING it's from sitting in the sun. (I just got them back from a cleaners for the first time since purchase, but I have never had problems with them before)

Is there a way to re-dye the pants? If so, can anyone point me in the direction for someone who can do it? (For a fee of course)

I love these pants, but now I have to go on the rest of my day hiding them anyway possible.

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not going to be easy to fix.
Costume designers and their associates are used to dying garments for stage.

you might be able to find someone at a theatrical department at a local university with a good theater department.

I can ask some of the people i work with as well.

Post a photo of the inside waistband construction of the pants
 

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Will do after work, appreciate it sir.

Just to confirm, it's obviously the sun that did the damage right? the fabric looks wrecked in the places of discoloration. Just want to be sure it wasn't the cleaners.
 

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Faded not sun dyed.

Burn them, they are beyond redemption.
 

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Happened to my pair in that fabric too. Best you could hope for is bleaching white or overdying black.
 

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