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labricoleuseMy dyeing and distressing course came to a close today with final presentations of projects. One of my students used a particularly creative and effective method to do some completely removable extreme distressing on a pair of mens trousers, which i thought i'd share here:
These salt stains were created for a character who'd been at sea for a long time. The student completely saturated the salt solution and splattered the pants with them, soaking the hems and dunking them as you would to create and ombre dye effect. This is a great idea for doing extreme distressing on rental costumes that you absolutely must be able to dryclean or launder out. It would be good for winter street grime in, say, a set of rented Christmas Carol costumes, for example, or sandy desert grime perhaps.
Here is a full length shot of the pants, which i think my student was a little over-enthusiastic with the spray, and the flash really makes the splurts and splashes "pop" but gives you an idea the range of work you could do with this technique. The hems i think turned out the most effective in appearance.
Everything you see will wash completely out without harming the pants! Also cool because, if you were to "overdo" it you could just wash or spot-clean away what you didn't want. You could also utilize an unsaturated solution to achieve a less-extreme effect, playing with the ratio of salt to water in a series of samples til you got what you wanted.
These salt stains were created for a character who'd been at sea for a long time. The student completely saturated the salt solution and splattered the pants with them, soaking the hems and dunking them as you would to create and ombre dye effect. This is a great idea for doing extreme distressing on rental costumes that you absolutely must be able to dryclean or launder out. It would be good for winter street grime in, say, a set of rented Christmas Carol costumes, for example, or sandy desert grime perhaps.
Here is a full length shot of the pants, which i think my student was a little over-enthusiastic with the spray, and the flash really makes the splurts and splashes "pop" but gives you an idea the range of work you could do with this technique. The hems i think turned out the most effective in appearance.
Everything you see will wash completely out without harming the pants! Also cool because, if you were to "overdo" it you could just wash or spot-clean away what you didn't want. You could also utilize an unsaturated solution to achieve a less-extreme effect, playing with the ratio of salt to water in a series of samples til you got what you wanted.
