Is the Op in the USA? If so, am I the only one that thinks this is a weird thread? Because like everyone else I’ve never had clothing leave a permanent dye mark on anything. Something is off right from the beginning.
If I went into a someones house and they had signs posted inside I’d think they were weird as hell and probably wouldn’t go back.
I’m not convinced that the stain your strange pants left should cost that much to clean/repair.
If you hadn’t known these chairs were objects around which special care should be taken (I assume you didn’t know that your jeans were liable to permanently stain furniture), I’d say your friend was being rude even for asking. If you invite a guest over, you should expect that they will do normal human things like sit down and wear clothes.
But you did know these were special chairs.
Yeah, but who expects jeans to stain a chair? I’d be more worried that by just flopping on them, he might weaken the frame, but staining from a pair of jeans? :dubious:
I do think having them reupholstered is a wee bit drastic, however I do think you should meet your friend in the middle and offer to pay to have them professionally cleaned.
Considering your user name, are you sure the jeans were the problem?
Was this friend eating anything from a food court? Were you wearing your frog pajamas? Maybe frog pajamas stain more easily.
FWIW I once had a new, dark colored shirt that I wore before washing. The color did bleed onto another fabric and left a stain.
So I can see it happening. Just as I can see the OP not being an adult about the situation.
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I don’t have much advice to offer the OP, but I will tell you that I had a woman rushed to the ER because her hands had suddenly turned blue.
I wiped it off with an alcohol swab…it was blue dye from her new jeans…
I had a new red shirt that I wore out dancing one night, and was very confused when I had punk splotches all over my chest and back the next morning. Luckily I figured it out before going to the doctor!
I had danced and gotten hot and sweaty. I can’t imagine it bleeding that much just from normal wear…
I’ve worn jeans for over fifty years. I’ve never had any issues with my pants staining furniture. It never even occurred to me that was a possibility.
Perhaps, if I was soaked with sweat. But, I wouldn’t set down on nice furniture with sweaty clothes anyhow.
I agree that you’re responsible for damaging someone’s property.
Perhaps the couch can be professionally steam cleaned?
Yeah, cheaply made clothing can do that. I’ve had it happen to me. A jacket I was wearing (made in china) left red streaks up and down a stairwell that was painted a tannish color. At work, our company pays a little extra for uniform shirts for everyone that are guaranteed by the manufacturer to not do that sort of thing. Blue denim is notoriously bad about that sort of thing, random loose threads, bits of cotton fuzz and yes, any light colored fabric rubbed by blue cotton fabric has a higher risk of color transfer.
OTOH the op, I think, needs to pony up the money for at least a professional cleaning at the very least.
I’ve had jeans ( and it’s only jeans, never any another type of clothing) turn my skin blue. It has also happened that jeans turned other articles of clothing I was wearing ( like a tucked in shirt or underwear) blue. And it wouldn’t surprise me if wearing the same pants, under exactly the same conditions would cause some dye to transfer to a light colored chair I sat on .
What amazes me is how fair the OP is being to his friend in his post. I’m old, I’ve had lots of time to observe how scummy people will try to downplay the importance of what happened when they accidentally damage someone else’s property. And this guy does the exact opposite!
For example, they diminish the value of whatever was damaged – it’s wasn’t very good to begin with, it was shoddy, ugly, cheap. But DTG says:
See? “Awesome” and “Vintage” when he could have just called them 'old." In fact, to counter the idea that they were old and likely would have had to be repaired soon, he goes on to add:
And that wasn’t just a tiny investment of time/money/effort on his friend’s part, oh, no:
So full marks to DTG for proving how wondrous these chairs were!
And, of course, the next trick scummy people would try would be to downplay their own involvement – they did nothing wrong! In fact, they’d even try to show that it was the other guy’s fault, that it wouldn’t have happened if the other guy hadn’t been negligent!
See? Not “I slowly and carefully sat down” but “flopped down”, not “I waited for my friend to say something and only sat down when he didn’t” but “I immediately” flopped down. No effort to avoid responsibility there, not at all!
Of course, he somewhat slipped from grace later on, with saying his friend should have made a post about the chairs not being for actual use on Facebook, and he should have had signs (and maybe velvet ropes blocking them off?) and besides he made a bad choice of fabrics… but still. At least at the start he made every effort to be sure everyone who read his post would fully realize the extent of the damage he did, and that it was all his own fault. Kudos!
Not everyone is willing to stand up and admit to the full extent of their faults when they know those who read about it will likely take them to task.
I’m going to go against the grain here a tad and say that the chair’s owner is being rude. Obviously, if the OP had prior knowledge that his pants stained chairs*, it would change my mind, but if I had a guest over who accidentally damaged something I would never think of asking for a replacement. If they offered, then fine, but I’d never ask. This especially applies to something so crazy as staining a chair by sitting on it.
*I’ve never heard of pants leeching dyes into furniture, but if it happened, I’d talk to whoever sold me those pants, even offering to sit on a chair in the store, and see if they would pay for the cleaning. That’s just something you don’t expect to happen when you buy pants.
Also, the OP almost sounds if he is presenting this story but with the roles reversed (like, he is the chair’s owner, and his friend stained the chair).
Because of the OP’s username, I assumed the chair got stained from a dark turd he squirted out prior to sitting.
I’m surprised so many posters are saying they’ve never heard of jeans that stained furniture before. I’ve often seen dark jeans, denim jackets, etc., in stores with tags on them warning the consumer that they are “specially dyed” and to be careful because the color may rub off on other clothing and furniture. I avoid buying these garments because I’ve got enough problems without worrying that my jeans are going to ruin someone’s upholstery.
If the OP’s story is true, I’d be pretty certain that his jeans came with a warning label about the possibility of the dye transferring.
Go full “Rick James” and grind your muddy cowboy boots on the chair, while shouting “Fuck Yo Chairs, Bitch! I’m Rick James!”
Then deny you ever did it. Then admit you did it right after that.
Are dye-releasing pants some new kind of fad? I’m not up on what kids are into these days, but that seems oddly destructive, but somehow like something that pop culture would embrace for about 15 seconds.
Which is why people with normal common sense don’t wear new clothes (except perhaps momentarily to test the fit) until they’ve been washed.