Having recently bought new pants, I was wearing them. Then it started to rain, and the bottoms of the legs got wet. I rushed to my dorm (the college life for me) and got inside to dry off. Later I noticed something. My new jeans had died my the backs of my shoes BLUE.

Something to protect shoes next time would be nice.
-- DesertFox, Sep 13 2006

or, something to dye your shoes according to plan? +
-- xenzag, Sep 13 2006


Well known problem with denim. (And the old Redcoats' uniforms, though not many people encounter that one any more.)

I often roll my trouser legs up in heavy rain (not that I wear jeans, but it helps keep suit pants from getting ruined, and if the weather's that bad, no one cares that you look like a gumbie).
-- DrCurry, Sep 13 2006


Galoshes?
-- skinflaps, Sep 13 2006


sp: dyed
just didn't want your jeans to die.

You know, you should always wash new jeans by themselves first, so the dye can wash out a bit before you wear them.
-- xandram, Sep 13 2006


Wash your pants first. Otherwise other things can get dyed blue. And not EVERYONE is going to belive that you are a pict.
-- Galbinus_Caeli, Sep 13 2006


Being young and completely out of fashion, I wore new jeans to go skiing for the first time. After sliding down the mountain from pretty much the very start of the run, I looked back up the mile that I had tumbled down. Much to my surprise I had left a rather prominent blue streak all the way down ending right at my ass.
-- NotTheSharpestSpoon, Sep 13 2006


NTSS: assuming you were cussing all the way down, I guess that's where the expression "swearing a blue streak" comes from.
-- DrCurry, Sep 14 2006


If I recall correctly I wasn't really vocalizing many distinct words so much as one long syllable.
-- NotTheSharpestSpoon, Sep 14 2006



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