is there a way to keep a black shirt from fading and a way to get back a faded shirts color?

Answer 1

To help keep any colored clothing from fading, wash the 1st time with a cup of vinegar. (It sets the dye in your clothing.) If it is already faded, the only way to revive black is to re-dye it. Be careful though, if you do re-dye to only wash it in cold water and with other black clothes only! Otherwise, you'll end up with a lot of grayish-looking clothes. Ugh.

Answer 2

You can try to soak black shirt in salt water before you wear it for the first time to avoid color to fade.

If it is already faded, for plain black shirts you can use Art shop's black color powder for clothes to soak in water. It will turns out like a new one.

Good luck!

Answer 3

Use woolite dark to keep them from fadeing. I use it for all my dark clothes and it works great. Also, you can use rit dye to get back the color to faded shirts. It if has print on it use a sponge soaked in the dye and sponge around the design so you dont mees it up.

Answer 4

Once it's faded you can't fix it, but you can prevent color fade by washing saturated colors in cold water and hanging the clothing items to dry rather than putting them in the dryer. There are also detergents and softener products that claim to help clothes retain their color.

Answer 5

Before washing, soak in a little bit of vinager to set the dye. Also, when the black is fading, dye it (along with all the other faded black articles of clothing) with black RIT or any other clothing dye.

Answer 6

you wash only darks with cool water, they have the new tide out that is suppose to keep colors in place. If you want to get a color back from a SOLID color **** they sell different colors of clothes dye at grocery stores. You have to wash out the washing machine after you dye your clothes, you just put soap and bleach and wash nothin

Answer 7

use cold water when you wash and rinse, and use a detergent made for darks like woolite dark or cheer dark. if it has already faded, run some black Rit dye through it in the washer. you can find all these things in the laundry detergent section at walMart

Answer 8

well first of all make sure that the powder isn't a brightening powder, and if possible, buy the liquid powders, which dont brighten. i am pretty sure you can't get the dark colours back, but try soaking in the liquid cleansers and it may fade back to its original colour.

Answer 9

USE 'BIZ' ITS 4 WHITES AND COLORS U JUST ADD TO YOUR LAUNDRY WHEN WASHING OF COURSE IT BRINGS BACK THE COLOR IN YOUR CLOTHES.

Answer 10

wash in cold with woolite in gentle cycle or handwash.

you can re-dye it, the only option