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adrian_turtleI wonder what's so special about khaki. It seems like such an ordinary color. It's not something very specific like black or white. My various khaki trousers are really quite different colors -- it doesn't look like different amounts of the same dye on more-or-less white cotton. One has more red in the dye, another more green, another more gray. (These must be OBVIOUS differences in color, if I'm noticing them.)
There seem to be a lot of laundry stain removers advertising their ability to remove almost any stain from almost any fabric. As a clumsy experimentalist working with pigments and dyes, this is important to me. Unfortunately, most of them seem to say "not recommended for use on khaki" or "do not use on khaki or fluorescent colors." Sometimes it's in addition to the warnings I expect, about colors possibly fading and stains possibly not coming out. Sometimes it's just kind of there, in isolation, as if my pants are going to explode if I use this stuff on them. Sometimes I think they might as well. I had two kinds of record this morning, what with splattering cyan pigment all over(*) my new khakis less than an hour after putting them on, and with spilling exactly the right amount of cyan on exactly the right kind of khaki to match the green shirt I had on.
(*) It wasn't the overall kind of splattering all over. I was wearing a lab coat, so I just splattered my trousers from the knees down. This is definately low drama.
There seem to be a lot of laundry stain removers advertising their ability to remove almost any stain from almost any fabric. As a clumsy experimentalist working with pigments and dyes, this is important to me. Unfortunately, most of them seem to say "not recommended for use on khaki" or "do not use on khaki or fluorescent colors." Sometimes it's in addition to the warnings I expect, about colors possibly fading and stains possibly not coming out. Sometimes it's just kind of there, in isolation, as if my pants are going to explode if I use this stuff on them. Sometimes I think they might as well. I had two kinds of record this morning, what with splattering cyan pigment all over(*) my new khakis less than an hour after putting them on, and with spilling exactly the right amount of cyan on exactly the right kind of khaki to match the green shirt I had on.
(*) It wasn't the overall kind of splattering all over. I was wearing a lab coat, so I just splattered my trousers from the knees down. This is definately low drama.
