Real men wear purple
October 28, 2006
Remember those cute tie dye shirts the children made? And some of you said I should be cautious when I washed them? But, me being me, I ignored you and just threw them in with the laundry like I do everything else.
Well now, all the whites are slightly purplish. My 10 yr old held up his formerly white socks and declared that he couldn’t wear them. “They look like GIRL socks!”
Who knew that wearing a lavender shirt was acceptable, but socks that have the slightest purple discoloration are not. And my screaming in mock horror while clawing my face with my fingers, “Oh NO, if you wear them everyone will think you are…A…GIRL. AAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! A fate worse than DEATH!!!” did nothing to change his mind. Which is a shame.
Feel bad for him, because his feet are going to get awfully cold (and ironically purplish) this winter.
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Then he will have GIRL feet! I buy nothing but black for this very reason….
October 28th, 2006 at 12:06 pmHis feet will be more purple from the cold than from the socks…..to be an extra nice mommy maybe you could throw those socks in a bit of bleach water and whiten them up a bit?
October 28th, 2006 at 12:29 pmor you could dye them dark blue-
October 28th, 2006 at 12:55 pmWhat if he wears them outside (with no shoes on) and jumps in some mud. Then they would be brown socks.
October 28th, 2006 at 12:56 pmAHHHHH! How dare a boy be caught in purplish socks!
October 28th, 2006 at 1:05 pmWhen we first got married I washed a red dish towel with all the whites. My hubby wore pinkish t-shirts, undies and socks for quite a while! HA!
My aunt once convinced my uncle to wear a light purple dress shirt he got to a family get together. Then she made the mistake of pulling all the male cousins aside and asking them not to pick on my uncle because he was a little sensitive about wearing purple. Needless to say, the rest of the evening consisted of guys teasing him and saying things like, “Did that shirt come with a matching purse?” and “You look awfully pretty tonight!” We laugh about it now, but males can be ruthless when they sense weakness!
October 28th, 2006 at 1:36 pmJust for the record, in case anyone is keeping track, I’m totally on his side. Purple socks are girl socks unless it’s the 80’s and you’re Boy George, who is, in another stroke of irony, more feminine that most girls.
October 28th, 2006 at 5:15 pmThat kind of sarcastic performance is never appreciated when i pull it on my daughter. But i appreciated yours! Wish there had been a video.
October 28th, 2006 at 5:29 pmMaybe he would feel better if you listed all the cool men who also wear purple: Prince, Barney, the Fruit of the Loom grape dude… Uh, nevermind.
October 28th, 2006 at 5:48 pmMy two boys would find the request to wear purple’ish socks “soo gay”, not that either of them have the slightest clue what “soo gay” means.
I agree with Cathy, send him outside in them with no shoes, 30 seconds … problem solved.
October 28th, 2006 at 6:01 pmI’m going to sound like a commercial. A friend told me about carbona dye grabber, just throw it in the wash with anything that might bleed color. I found it at my locate fabric store, but you can buy it on cabona’s web site. It really works. It’s about $5 and is supposed to last about 30 wash loads.
“Reusable Terry Cloth - helps prevent mixed load accidents. Wash color and whites together or separately. Dye Grabber™ grabs hold and absorbs loose dye and grime in your wash cycle.Dye Grabber™ keeps clothes bright, bold and vibrant! Once the dye and grunge is on the Dye Grabber™, it WILL NOT come off!”
October 28th, 2006 at 7:31 pmDonnie Osmond wore purple socks! Alas, your son isn’t a little bit country or a little bit rock-n-roll.
October 28th, 2006 at 9:06 pmRIT brand makes a dye remover that is cheap and will suck that lavander right outta those whites. Of course that will only solve the purple sock problem - I dont think RIT makes anything to teach kids to appreciate a good sarcastic moment
October 29th, 2006 at 1:53 amI’ll have to try one of those dye remover suggestions. Seriously though that socks are barely discolored, not enough that *I* think anyone would notice in the one inch strip that shows between jeans and shoes. But what do I know.
October 29th, 2006 at 3:13 pmOh no, not purple socks!! Ha ha…
October 29th, 2006 at 6:30 pmI’m glad I’m not the only one color changing my laundry.
I had a yellow shirt that turned green when I accidentally washed it on hot with my blue jeans. =)
All of my kids have some light blue socks - mostly cause my DH put ALL of thier clothes in with a pair of new jeans. They don’t care tho’ - they just wear what we put on them - now if you asked them to pick up toys - THAT’S waaaaaayyyyy baaaaaaaaaadddddd!
October 29th, 2006 at 7:19 pmI have also turned my husband’s t-shirts, undies and socks pink. I accidently picked up a red dishtowel that had never been washed before with some of his t-shirts. I remember taking them out of the washer and thinking, “who could I hire to say it was a washer malfunction and not a wife malfunction?” So I called up the husband, at work, and asked “do you want me to bleach your t-shirts, undies and socks or would you like to wear pink, a lot?” He got the gist without me having to explain my mistake and asked me to go ahead and bleach them.
October 29th, 2006 at 8:27 pmWhen I was a young girl my mom decided to change my carpet in my bedroom - but the cheap way. She rented a steam cleaner and put brown die in the machine…
Well, I think I had brown-bottomed socks for about a year after that - and knees and bottom if I sat for too long. (and in a couple of places my bedroom walls where I had rested my feet). It was a lesson well learned!
October 30th, 2006 at 1:18 amIsn’t it weird how colors will wash right out of shirts and onto white socks, never to wash out again? You’d think if the color leaked once, it would leak again off of the white stuff. My husband has lots of pinkish socks and underwear now.
October 30th, 2006 at 5:53 amMeredith, I think it’s because the color gets heat-set in the dryer.
October 31st, 2006 at 10:03 am