not quite what you might be thinking…
I have a new pair of pants that are brown and gold. I wore them all day today, without ever suspecting that when I got home and took them off, my skin would be blue from the thighs down to the ankles!
(Blue underwear too.) :rolleyes:
It took me several minutes of scrubbing and two applications of Lava to get it all off.
You’d better believe I’m washing the damn pants separate from anything else, and inside out!
This is a first for me.
When I read the title of this thread, I was so sure it involved Smurfs somehow. Possibly being used immoraly.
As to the actual, slightly less tittilating, occurance: After a few washings this sort of thing generally isn’t a problem anymore, right? I know I had a similar thing happen to me.
I had thought of Andorians before Smurfs, but either will do. 
Or those people who took too much colloidal silver and their faces turned blue… :eek:
um… pics?
Hear ya loud and clear. Pour in some vinegar to set the colour when you wash them.
I’ve had this happen about 20 years ago after buying a brand new pair of Levi’s. Wore them to school. Got in a snowball fight and spent about 2 hours outside in the snow.
Got home, changed out of soggy clothes and noticed I was blue. At first I thought it may just be from the cold. Then I noticed my panties were blue, my legs were blue, my socks were blue…
Took several scrubbings before most of it came off. Was a week before it was all gone.
Just call me Dumpy Smurfette 
Ai yi, don’t you people wash new clothes before you wear them? Do you know where they’ve been before you bought them? How many people have handled them? What filthy, vermin-infested factories, warehouses, shipping containers and cargo vans, trains and planes they’ve been in? What kinds of semi-toxic materials the fabric has been treated with before the clothing manufactured or sold?
:eek:
I did this once as a college student - my mother shipped me a new shirt she’d bought, I wore it (yes, without washing it tlw…I was a college student and wasn’t going to do laundry for one shirt).
It turned my upper body blue. Two days later, despite showers and scrubbing, I was still blue. Out of desperation, I went to the health center hoping they could help. They couldn’t. I remained blue for most of a week.
Now, since working in the apparel industry, I don’t wear things without washing them first. Because I do know that the fabric, thread and stuff sits in warehouses before and after manufacture. And because I don’t want to be blue again.
tlw, I have since learned my lesson (besides I was only about 12/13 at the time). All clothes get washed befor wearing.
I’ve also worked briefly for a clothing manufacturer, and have seen all the ‘behind the scenes’ - pre-customer stages. Everything gets washed very very well before wearing.
This happened to me when I was 10 or 11 years old…but in an infinately more embarrassing way. I was wearing a pair of new blue shorts to an amusement park (King’s Dominion, as I remember). It started to rain…torrentially…and the color on the shorts started melting down my legs. I had to walk around the rest of the day with blue streaks down my bare legs.
This is hilarious! You must have felt horrible though 
This thread title made me think of my own situation. Specifically, when I run in the winter weather I’m only wearing one layer of clothing on my legs. The result is that my legs and buns of steel feel very cool. When I get back sometimes the front part of my legs look a tiny bit bluish due to the cold.
:smack: Next time for sure!
I wondered what it might take to lure you back to the boards. You wuz missin’ in action.
The worst thing was that I must have walked around for half an hour before my aunt, who was with us, noticed. By then, it was too late to try to wash it off, as it had “set.”
It didn’t feel better that she joked that it looked like I had varicose veins.