Everything kinda depends on what kind of bleaching you want. Fading the whole thing, with or without holes, or in a moo-cow pattern. In general though, I'd do the following.
I'd use a spritzer bottle and fill it with some bleach so you have more control what areas get more faded than others. I'd also dilute the contents first. 2 part bleach, 1 part water. A little drop is going to turn the fabric white and too much it's going to eat all the fabric too much.
you also don't have to do the entire pants in one shot. do portions, like lower half or top half, and then rinse everything and finish the other half. This is to prevent half of the pants from sitting in bleach too long if you take your time.
The biggest benefit of doing it this way is that you have tons of control versus dipping things into a bucket. You can even make fades so it doesn't just look like you had an accident and just spilled bleach on you clothes.
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i am doing the same thing for my 80s party. i'm gonna use a big ass bucket and pour bleach in it. then i'm gonna take my pants and put rubber bands around certain areas just like when you tie dye a shirt. i hope it comes out the way i want it to.
i can take digital pics but i don't know when exactly i will be doing this. my friends and i wanted to have it for memorial day but now plans have changed. i have used the rubber band method for tie dyeing shirts before and what it does is leave rings wherever you put the bands.
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I'd use a spritzer bottle and fill it with some bleach so you have more control what areas get more faded than others. I'd also dilute the contents first. 2 part bleach, 1 part water. A little drop is going to turn the fabric white and too much it's going to eat all the fabric too much.
you also don't have to do the entire pants in one shot. do portions, like lower half or top half, and then rinse everything and finish the other half. This is to prevent half of the pants from sitting in bleach too long if you take your time.
The biggest benefit of doing it this way is that you have tons of control versus dipping things into a bucket. You can even make fades so it doesn't just look like you had an accident and just spilled bleach on you clothes.
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i have used the rubber band method for tie dyeing shirts before and what it does is leave rings wherever you put the bands.
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