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[dorkusxmaximus]

Is there an alternative to dipping your new keiko gi and hakama in something else besides vinegar water? I'm trying to make it easy for my little bro when his uniform arrives.

[KamuSan]

The first washing instruction for my gi (from Ninecircles) said to soak it in water for a night. A bathful with half a cup of salt.
Then rinse and let drip dry.
I'll let you know tonight (1113hr here, so in about 7 hours) how it works out.

[slidercrank]

I think this whole "setting the dye" thing is a bit of urban legend. I've soaked stuff in salt water or vigegar water, and the color still leaked onto the skin. In fact, the soaking didn't seem to change the color fastness at all compared to no soaking. If so, what's the point of soaking and setting the dye? I think you will be just as well off to wash the new gi in plain water to get rid of some of the excess dye. Your gi won't stink like vinegar, or you won't have to waste all that table salt.

[AlexM]

Let me get this straight... you want to help out your little brother? You haven't understood the role of the older sibling yet: you must torture and amuse yourself at the expense of the younger brother or sister.

Have fun with his impending transformation into a smurf. Don't make him weasle out of what we must all go through. Refer to him as smurf boy for a week. It is your duty as the older one to do this...

[KamuSan]

Yeah. I just got home (went early) and I got my gi out of the bucket. After rinsing a couple of times I look like a smurf. :D

So much for that, I'll try to rinse it a few more times, because I'll get *very* blue if I'm going to wear my gi like this.

Soaking the gi in vinegar or salt water really doesn't help? Because I just turned a white plastic bucket into a blue one and my girl friend really doesn't appreciate that. Would be a shame if I did it for naught.

[Nishi]

Is there an alternative to dipping your new keiko gi and hakama in something else besides vinegar water? I'm trying to make it easy for my little bro when his uniform arrives.

Yes there is...dont wash it at all for a few months, just rinse out the sweat in the bathtub using cold water, and let it air dry indoors somewhere. Ive got 3 keogi and have never salted and vinigared any of them.

After about 3 months i start to throw the new gi in the washer on a short wash, no soap, ice water, my gi's are still dark indigo and have neutral stench.

[KamuSan]

So you were blue for 3 months?

[Nishi]

So you were blue for 3 months?

Well i wasnt like braveheart or anything, but i suppose i was blue for a month or two, being blue is part of the buisness.....

I just changed my kiai to FREEEDOOOOM!

[KamuSan]

LOL, guess I need something red and white on my head :-)

I'm rinsing my gi now, put the shower on it. I'll see what happens.
I like the smell, btw.

[dorkusxmaximus]

Let me get this straight... you want to help out your little brother? You haven't understood the role of the older sibling yet: you must torture and amuse yourself at the expense of the younger brother or sister.

Have fun with his impending transformation into a smurf. Don't make him weasle out of what we must all go through. Refer to him as smurf boy for a week. It is your duty as the older one to do this...

Of course I want to help out my bro. I even bought him his first shinai. Haha i did all that bad stuff in the past to him. My bro still fears me alot mwhahahaa. I guess he's still too traumatize, so that explains why he always obediently take my orders >=).

Thank you for all your suggestions, everyone! I'll be sure to make him try it out. It's time he should learn how to be more responsible. Ohhh he's going to look like a big smurf hahha. I can't wait ^_^!!!

[slidercrank]

I just turned a white plastic bucket into a blue one and my girl friend really doesn't appreciate that. Would be a shame if I did it for naught.

Try filling the bucket with water and chlorine bleach soluation and let it sit. You will still be blue for a while, but at least you might get your g/f to smile again.

[AlexM]

[QUOTE=dorkusxmaximus] Haha i did all that bad stuff in the past to him. My bro still fears me alot mwhahahaa. I guess he's still too traumatize, so that explains why he always obediently take my orders >=).
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You're evil Nancy... so very evil......... (shiver)

[dorkusxmaximus]

Yes, I'm very evil, Alex. I'm glad that you noticed :tongue: .

bleach?!? Wouldn't that wash away the dye of a keiko-gi?

[KamuSan]

Bleach just for the bucket, I think.

I'll buy some more salt and let my gi soak another night. It rubs of so easily, it's a danger for my furniture & other clothes.

I mean, if I look like a smurf, that's ok, but that doesn't mean that *all* my stuff needs to be blue. Smurfs do have white trousers, don't they :-)

[slidercrank]

Bleach just for the bucket, I think.



Yes. DO NOT put your gi in the bleach solution!!!

[bluerecords]

hi,
as coach i instructed some 100 students that way:

put hakama / Gi in a (small) basket with 5-10 lts of vinegar and some liters of water. after 24 hrs take it out and put it into a washing machine with NON bleaching washing powder ( for your girlfriends little 'blacks' ) and wash it cold. maybe the hakama and gi will continue to colour you blue a little while, but soon it start stoping, because of your 'salty' sweat.

if you continue washing your uniform from time to time with bleachless powder it wont loose its nice darkblue colour, even if it is a 'cheap' one and suports the process above.

our experience proofed my words.

best
frank

[etherknot]

Yes. DO NOT put your gi in the bleach solution!!!

Unless of course: 1. You have a white gi. 2. You don't care so much.

For me, I use one capfull of bleach with two capfulls of water to dilute the bleach. Works like a charm :D

[KamuSan]

I soaked my indigo-dyed gi for 2 days in about a kilogram of salt. It doesn't give off much now, only the strings still rub off.