Scarves Hermesmatic - worth a try? Please post your opinions and before/after photos of scarves

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I don't know if anyone already posted a thread like this or if this should be posted somewhere else....
If so, please direct me to the right thread.

Hermèsmatic Pop-Up Store is coming to New York
JUN 14, 2017 ~ June 18, 2017

The description from their Facebook Event page:

"Give your Hermès silk scarves a fresh new look in New York City with our colorful dip dye wash program! Hermèsmatic is a complimentary service where you can update all of your vintage scarves via washing machines and dip-dying. You can also discover our one-of-a-kind dip-dyed silk collection!

Wednesday, June 14 through Sunday, June 18, 2017
11:00am - 8:00pm

Hermèsmatic Pop-Up Store
90 Gansevoort Street, New York "

Reference: https://www.facebook.com/events/182...ed_story_type":"279","action_history":"null"}
 
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I was wondering if anyone has been to this kind of pop-up store before, and has tried this out on their scarf? Was the result good? Or was the result not what was expected.... I wonder if it would be worth traveling to New York City for?
 
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juss said:
I am wondering if anyone has tried giving a second life to their H carre in Hermesmatic washing machine?
See here: http://www.alumind.com/article/hermesmatic-scarf-shop/
I was hesitant at first but at the same time saw the models of what they can do in the H shop, and have several scarves I will never wear again, because of the colors. So anyone courageous enough to plunge their beloved silks into H washing machine? The service is free as far as I understand.
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Do you have links to the before and after shots? Or even just the after shots? I am definitely going to bring some scarves to the NYC event.
Also, do I remember correctly that @Hermes Nuttynut did some dipdyeing at home, with great results?
 
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momasaurus said:
Do you have links to the before and after shots? Or even just the after shots? I am definitely going to bring some scarves to the NYC event.
Also, do I remember correctly that @Hermes Nuttynut did some dipdyeing at home, with great results?
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momasaurus, will you pop in with pics, post-dip? Would love to see results. Wish I could attend. I have a 70cm, Literature double mousseline that is such a pale, barely there, blue. I love everything about it, other than the color, and am so tempted to dip-dye it myself!
 
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momasaurus said:
Do you have links to the before and after shots? Or even just the after shots? I am definitely going to bring some scarves to the NYC event.
Also, do I remember correctly that @Hermes Nuttynut did some dipdyeing at home, with great results?
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Here are a few links I found with people's before-and-after pics:
http://my-greenstyle.com/hermesmatic-waschsalon-deluxe/
http://nuinui358.dreamlog.jp/archives/48943577.html
https://tinyurl.com/y8yk43gb
http://uefuffzich.blogspot.com/search?q=hermesmatic

Of course, you can always wade through Instagram using the #hermesmatic hash tag for others, but I probably didn't need to tell you that. I realize you'd like pics from TPFers (which are always the best!).

I am so sad I can't make the NYC dates. I have some serious color mistakes (damn you, unreliable Internet pictures) that I would love to reinvent.
 
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Thanks for these! Yes, the insta pix were mostly of the orange washing machines, LOL. Enough already. I want to see before and after pix!!

The Japanese site shows some very subtle transformations - wish I could read it - it seems that some scarves were lightened???
 
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momasaurus said:
Thanks for these! Yes, the insta pix were mostly of the orange washing machines, LOL. Enough already. I want to see before and after pix!!

The Japanese site shows some very subtle transformations - wish I could read it - it seems that some scarves were lightened???
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Yeah, I wondered that about the lightened scarves too. Any TPFers fluent in Japanese who can help explain what's going on in that one?

Here are a few more pics that seem helpful in determining what results one might get:
https://tinyurl.com/y8x5atbx
https://www.instagram.com/p/BNZCJ1Fg57q/?taken-by=hermesassortiment
https://www.instagram.com/p/BSyzVUhhvqf/?taken-by=alsiafy&hl=en
https://www.instagram.com/p/BUJIHmlhoIo/?taken-by=mariecordiez&hl=en

On that last pic, the green one worn on the head: I think the Instagrammer says somewhere that she is disappointed in it, expected it to be more emerald colored, but I think it is divine as is.

And I think I'm done hunting up pictures for now. I have orange-washing-machine overload.
 
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Most of the after scarves seem pretty predictable--If blue is overdyed with pink, you get purple, if gold/yellow is overdyed with blue, you get some shade of green, etc.
Any German speakers here who can translate some of http://uefuffzich.blogspot.com/search?q=hermesmatic? The last scarf shown, the Cezanne--was it overdyed with more than one other color, like, pink and blue? The result is quite spectacular!
For those who went to this event elsewhere--is it one scarf per customer? Will they only dye 90cm, or could I bring a 140cm giant silk?
I'm excited! Thanks!
 
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Mindi B said:
Most of the after scarves seem pretty predictable--If blue is overdyed with pink, you get purple, if gold/yellow is overdyed with blue, you get some shade of green, etc.
Any German speakers here who can translate some of http://uefuffzich.blogspot.com/search?q=hermesmatic? The last scarf shown, the Cezanne--was it overdyed with more than one other color, like, pink and blue? The result is quite spectacular!
For those who went to this event elsewhere--is it one scarf per customer? Will they only dye 90cm, or could I bring a 140cm giant silk?
I'm excited! Thanks!
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Hi Mindi, I just sent the text of the blog post you noted through google translate. Doesn't really provide more details other than info on the decor (orange flooring, orange lamps, an orange refrigerator and orange washers), and she notes they were served orange drinks at the event. :biggrin: Regarding your 140s, the blogger does note a woman arrived with two 140s to be dyed. And it does look like one leaves with the newly dyed scarf in a nifty Hermes cloth bag. :smile:
 
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Thank you so much, etoile! (I shoulda thoughta Google Translate.) This Hermesmatic is really a fun idea. I am usually not an "attendee" at these things, but this is intriguing. I will go through my scarves and pick some likely candidates. I wonder if I can get DH to come with me and buy me lunch in NYC? :thinking:
 
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