Oh no

[Purple_Popple]

I accidentally washed a pair of my fave white trousers with a red top and now they are a subtle pink, awful, the trousers are in a mild bleach solution at the mo and have been all afternoon, they are still pink, how come you cant buy a white clothing dye? Any other suggestions on how to get them back to their original white colour please? Thanks all.

[boxtops]

Try one of those colour run products - Vanish or similar.

[xstitcher]

Try white Vanish

[xstitcher]

What ever you decide to do, do it asap

[ethandron]

and wash them repeatedly with vanish oxywhite. it'll all come out, you just need to be patient.

[Purple_Popple]

Off to supermarket I go... :) - keep everything crossed .....thanks for your answers so far

[heathfield]

I did this many years ago with my Y-front underpants. Couldn't get the colour out. Ended up getting some very strange looks from my shipmates!

[Postdog]

for future reference, try a colour run remover FIRST. I reckon you have lost what chance you may have had by doing what you did.

[LoftyLottie]

I agree with Postdog. I washed some stuff with a purple dress and turned everything an awful shade of light mauve. I made the mistake of soaking it before using the colour run stuff. It took a lot of the colour out (about three packs of the stuff), but not all of it. It would have been cheaper to buy new clothes!!

[anneasquith]

if all things fail................you may need to dye them a darker colour.

[ladybirder]

Dye them black.

[rowanwitch]

get them out of the household bleach wash them in strong detergent go to a shop that sells dylon products and get some colour run remover...its a different bleaching agent designed to react to most commercial dyes used in fabrics.. folllow the instructions

Unfortunately for some reason household bleach can sometimes 'fix' dyes so you may have spoiled your chances of gettingthe colour out

[Quassia]

I was thinking the same rowan. It may be Purple that the bleach may have set the dye.

[rowanwitch]

I've seen some amazing colour changes when stripping fabric....ended up turning green trousers a warm peachy terracotta completely bt accident loved them... never managed it again though. Purple tones normally go orange or rusty red, blues lighter oranges....

[gingejbee]

...and to answer your other question, as far as clothing is concerned, white is not a colour - it's an absence of colour! So no dye available!
An oxygen-based bleach far superior to chlorine-based for removing colour-bleed.