From: Remi
Category: Other stuff
Date: 31 July 2004
As if by a serendipitious sleight of hand, I saw a lonely bottle of salt standing on a metal trolley-shelf not long after entering the store. Salt is a great way of fixing dyes,as all you readers know, and this is just what I needed to fix that wandering red colour onto a polo shirt of mine, still virgin and crimson. In fact, red is reputed to be one of the less fixable colours, which a sartorial chemist could perhaps explain. So I was determined to not let it get out of my clutches. Armed and dangerous, I took the salt back home and prepared a devilish concoction with soap in a serving bowl and let the t-shirt stew in its own juice. Interestingly, the water did not turn even a faint pink, so trustworthy was that sodium chloride of mine. I left it for an hour, rinsed it promptly and lay it on a plastic chair on the patio. My handywork has preserved the boisterous shade for a little while to come. But will my friends trust me when I try and wash it with other shirts?
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