Just experimenting...aren"t you kinda afraid that doing ALL THAT is going to REMOVE any of the coloring from the TEA?...seems like you are trying to "un-do" every bit of the *aging* that the TEA gave it and make it "NEW-looking" again...just sayin
Good tip!For handwashing in my opinion you better use shampoo, not dish soap.
Maybe drink more tea?I have never tea-stained a jock but I've certainly pee-stained many in one way or another.
Drinking more tea = more tea pee!Maybe drink more tea?
Damn! Looks greatThe result is more subtle than I expected but I’m still pleased. This was a pure white jock when I began.
I already want to do it again with some other jockstraps and tweak the recipe a bit.
It smells good and feels soft. Chai was a great choice.
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.....yes!...I had several "old-school, vintage jockstraps that I wanted to look more aged and not so new and bright-white!.....I simply used several teabags of BLACK-TEA and heated-up a large bowl of water in the microwave for about 4 minutes (twice)...I wanted to make damn-sure the water was *plenty-HOT!*...then, I placed 3 teabags in that very-hot (actually *boiling* water)...after removing the strings and tabs, then stirred the water very-well as it became deep, dark brown...then I waited a few minutes before re-heating the water with the tea-bags (it was really *boiling-hot!*)...then, using tongs, I removed the tea-bags and let them cool in a shallow bowl, while I placed the (too-white) jockstraps into the very very dark, and very-very-hot tea-water in the larger bowl and covered-it, then left-it-alone for a couple of hours...and, a while later when the tea-bags had cooled-enough, I squeezed the now-much-cooler tea-bags into the large bowl containing the jockstraps, re-covered the large bowl, then, let it sit overnight.....the next morning, I checked those jockstraps in the large bowl...and, they sure weren`t white-ish anymore...and they were cool enough that I could take them out of the large-bowl, empty the tea, then, fill that large bowl with very very *cold*-water (to *set* the darker-color)...then, when I took those formerly-too-white-jockstraps out of the very-cold water (I had even used a plastic-*frozen* bottle of water I had in the freezer for just this purpose). I wrung-them-out real-good, and hung them on a clothes-line I rigged-up in the garage for just this-purpose, and let them dry on -their-own!.....they look AMAZING!...and, they look as though they are very-much-older than they did before!.....I am very happy with the results!...it was really kinda-fun, inexpensive, and, I got just the *results* that I was hoping-for!....I should-have taken pictures throughout-the-entire-process ( sure!, NOW I think of THAT! )....sorry I didn`t think-of THAT before I started the whole process!...anyway!, I am real pleased with the results, and it was real easy!.....NOTE: if the jockstraps are mostly, or *all-COTTON*, you may just want to use a regular Lipton tea-bag, or even a tea-bag for GREEN-TEA, or, it could turn-out much darker than you really want-it-to!...mine have some nylon in them, so...I opted-for the BLACK-TEA...because, I know that any nylon or rubber-content in your jockstrap(s) can be very-resistant to the coloring from the tea-bags...so, just be sure to check your jockstrap-labels for the "contents" used in them!....."my" jockstraps are from the 60`s-70`s, before they used so much rubber and nylon, like they do now!...I have some inexpensive new jockstraps that are blindingly white, and I’m considering soaking them in tea to give them a nice overall vintage tan color. Has anyone tried this?