Adult tights?

[BB]

Has anyone found a good brand for adult tights?  I've tried and failed three times. I think they've had too much lycra in them or something...they don't hold the color.  I've found 100% cotton tights for babies but not for adults. If anyone knows where I can get them please let me know.  Thanks~

[ktaltre]

Dharma Trading has adult cotton leggings, which are something like tights. Maybe a little heavier?
k. taltre

[tiedyejudy]

Alegre Fashions in Florida also carries jersey knit leggings, and their prices are good.  Here is a pair I dyed so you can see how the color took:

Judy

[pburch]

Has anyone found a good brand for adult tights?  I've tried and failed three times. I think they've had too much lycra in them or something...they don't hold the color. 

How much Lycra did the failures have in them? How much was too much? It could be that the non-spandex portion was nylon or polyester, which require different dyes.

Usually tights that are 90% or even 80% cotton dye well, in spite of the 10% or 20% spandex.

Paula

[BB]

The tag said 90% cotton 10% lycra. I didn't get any more details. They came from Danskin.  I've tried the Dharma leggings and I really loved the way they turned out but the customer wanted footed tights. Oh well....

[pburch]

10% spandex/90% cotton should dye very well. A spandex content of 10% is absolutely fine.

Several possibilities:

• The tights were mislabeled and were really 90% nylon or 90% polyester, and not cotton at all. It's rare for labels to be wrong, but sometimes it happens.
  
• They were treated to be stain-resistant (which I've never heard of for tights so far—have you?). Stain resistant clothing doesn't dye well.
  
• You forgot the soda ash or mistakenly mixed up something else instead of soda ash. I know this sounds stupid, but it happens more often than you would expect. A friend of mine accidentally used urea one time when she thought she was mixing up soda ash.
  

Or did they take some dye, but not really intensely? Maybe a very thin tights material would look paler.

-Paula