Message: Is there a way to do the following?

I have a blouse that is cranberry and black with gold buttons in the front, white sleeves, and a white back. However, it had cranberry dye on the back sporadically. Most of the stains came off after I took it to the dry cleaners. But when I took it home from the cleaners I noticed a few stains did not come out. I went back. The female dry cleaner does both dry cleaning and owns the Laundromat as well. She said even though the label says "Dry Clean Only" I can wash it as well. I washed by hand, some of the dye is still there. MY question: is there any way to wash out the dye and if so how and if not is there a way to dye the white and if so how. THE MATERIAL IS 55% ACETATE AND 44% RAYON

It might be possible to wash out the cranberry dye stains with hot water, but, if not, there may not be much chance for this blouse. Hotter water does work much better at removing loose dye than cooler water, but, if it gets on the colored parts of the blouse, it will probably cause still more dye to run. It sounds as though it was dyed with water soluble dyes, which is a very poor choice on the part of the manufacturer. If I were you, I would not buy again from the same source that you bought this blouse from.

Do not try to use bleach, such as the Clorox Bleach pen, to remove the stains. It will damage the acetate and ruin the blouse. You can use another color-removing product, called Rit Color Remover, because it is safer for synthetic fabrics, but I suspect that the results will not be good, so any additional time and money you spend on this will be wasted.

The 44% of the blouse that is rayon can be dyed, but the 55% that is acetate cannot be. (Acetate should be boiled with disperse dye to color it, but a dry clean only blouse certainly will not withstand boiling.) This means that you will not be able to achieve more than a pastel color if you dye it. I don't think that dyeing this blouse will yield good results. I'm afraid that the best solution in this case is to replace the blouse, preferably with one that is washable.

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