Does Corduroy transfer colours to leather bags?

[Sakurai888]

There's a dark coloured corduroy mini dress that I like and plan to wear it with my beige lambskin chanel. but i have worries as corduroy is another type of denim, that it'd transfer colours to light coloured leather handbags. Has anyone had any experience with corduroy here?
here is the corduroy dress

 

[BigPurseSue]

Dye on any fabric can potentially transfer or bleed onto a lighter colored bag or garment. It will all depend upon the quality of the fabric's dyeing. Darker or more deeply dye-saturated fabrics are especially prone to bleeding. It doesn't matter whether the fabric is cotton or wool or whatever. Colors especially prone to bleeding are reds, oranges, navy blues and blacks.

To find out if your corduroy dress is prone to bleeding you should dunk it or a portion of it in water. Let it sit for a few minutes, then pull it out and check the water. If the water has some color to it then you know the fabric isn't colorfast.

I try to pair bags with garments of similar colors. Black bag with black coat. (I dunked my expensive black wool coat in water and was shocked to see the water turn black. That would end up on my winter white purse especially if we ended up in the snow or rain!) Light bag with light coat, etc. I have a cream lambskin bag I carry only when I wear white or a light pastel. Obsessive but I hate seeing color transfer.

Hope this is some help!

 

[Sakurai888]

Dye on any fabric can potentially transfer or bleed onto a lighter colored bag or garment. It will all depend upon the quality of the fabric's dyeing. Darker or more deeply dye-saturated fabrics are especially prone to bleeding. It doesn't matter whether the fabric is cotton or wool or whatever. Colors especially prone to bleeding are reds, oranges, navy blues and blacks.

To find out if your corduroy dress is prone to bleeding you should dunk it or a portion of it in water. Let it sit for a few minutes, then pull it out and check the water. If the water has some color to it then you know the fabric isn't colorfast.

I try to pair bags with garments of similar colors. Black bag with black coat. (I dunked my expensive black wool coat in water and was shocked to see the water turn black. That would end up on my winter white purse especially if we ended up in the snow or rain!) Light bag with light coat, etc. I have a cream lambskin bag I carry only when I wear white or a light pastel. Obsessive but I hate seeing color transfer.

Hope this is some help!

Thanks so much for the info. I also hate seeing colour transfer. I just realize that corduroy is a type of denim too. I read that synthetic material has bigger probability for colour transfer than natural material such as wool, cashmere due to the colour induced at the final stage of the process. But reading your wool jacket also transfers colour, i guess it's better to be in the safe side to match dark coloured outfits with dark coloured bags as well. Once again thanks for the insight

 

[BigPurseSue]

Thanks so much for the info. I also hate seeing colour transfer. I just realize that corduroy is a type of denim too. I read that synthetic material has bigger probability for colour transfer than natural material such as wool, cashmere due to the colour induced at the final stage of the process. But reading your wool jacket also transfers colour, i guess it's better to be in the safe side to match dark coloured outfits with dark coloured bags as well. Once again thanks for the insight

My personal experience has been that synthetics like nylon can pick up color more easily from other fabrics than natural fabrics like cotton or wool. But natural fabrics tend to be the worst for bleeding color to other fabrics and materials. Silk can sometimes be very, very bad, but it all depends upon how it was dyed and the process used. Some silk is fine, perfectly colorfast. (I'm sure Hermes scarves do not bleed. Haha!) Other silk no. For instance I recently purchased a silk blouse that had been sold under a designer label at Neiman Marcus. The dark green portions bled horribly onto the lighter portions of the blouse. But this is just my experience so I could be wrong about natural fabrics sometimes being more color unstable than synthetics.

I've been told by chemists who formulate fabric dyes that great strides have been made in the last decade in making fabrics more colorfast, in preventing color-bleed in the wash, but caution is still in order.

 

[Sakurai888]

My personal experience has been that synthetics like nylon can pick up color more easily from other fabrics than natural fabrics like cotton or wool. But natural fabrics tend to be the worst for bleeding color to other fabrics and materials. Silk can sometimes be very, very bad, but it all depends upon how it was dyed and the process used. Some silk is fine, perfectly colorfast. (I'm sure Hermes scarves do not bleed. Haha!) Other silk no. For instance I recently purchased a silk blouse that had been sold under a designer label at Neiman Marcus. The dark green portions bled horribly onto the lighter portions of the blouse. But this is just my experience so I could be wrong about natural fabrics sometimes being more color unstable than synthetics.

I've been told by chemists who formulate fabric dyes that great strides have been made in the last decade in making fabrics more colorfast, in preventing color-bleed in the wash, but caution is still in order.

The 2 colour tones bleed incident also happens to me...twice. Both are designer labels , first one has portion of wool and second one is of synthetic materials. The first one could be saved by my laundry but second one, the bleed doesn't even budge by the laundry's spot remover. I don't even got a chance of wearing it. It's predominantly white with black stripes. All the black coloured parts bleed to the white one. I think these 2 or multiple colour tone clothings also has to be taken into caution as well when wearing light coloured leather bag. We might think , oh it's predominantly white but then the darker tone isn't colorfast and that could create trouble for the bag.

My laundry told me they like to encounter certain brands with 2 or multiple tone clothings have to be cautious of. They mentioned CK & Karen Millen have these repetitive cases. My second clothing that could not be saved is indeed Karen Millen. The tricky part is on their washing instruction, they allow hand wash and/or machine wash but no dry clean #sic

 

[BigPurseSue]

The 2 colour tones bleed incident also happens to me...twice. Both are designer labels , first one has portion of wool and second one is of synthetic materials. The first one could be saved by my laundry but second one, the bleed doesn't even budge by the laundry's spot remover. I don't even got a chance of wearing it. It's predominantly white with black stripes. All the black coloured parts bleed to the white one. I think these 2 or multiple colour tone clothings also has to be taken into caution as well when wearing light coloured leather bag. We might think , oh it's predominantly white but then the darker tone isn't colorfast and that could create trouble for the bag.

My laundry told me they like to encounter certain brands with 2 or multiple tone clothings have to be cautious of. They mentioned CK & Karen Millen have these repetitive cases. My second clothing that could not be saved is indeed Karen Millen. The tricky part is on their washing instruction, they allow hand wash and/or machine wash but no dry clean #sic

Thank you for the warning! There are all sorts of recipes floating around for using things like vinegar to better set fabric dye and prevent bleeding. I've tried them all and haven't found any to work. There are also products that you can buy from sellers of dye that supposedly prevent fabric color bleeding. I've tried many of those over the years and haven't found any that really work.

One thing to keep in mind is that "dry cleaning" isn't really dry. Your garment is immersed into a chemical solution and that can sometimes also cause fabric color bleeding.