How to Dye Your Shoes a Cool Color Like Purple

Step 4 Dye your shoes!

With the experiments on old sneakers successful, I started with a new pair of shoes that were approximately 0.5 sizes too big. In 4 gallons of water, I dissolved 5 packages of Rit dye, and heated the water to 55C (measured with a thermometer; it's about when the water starts to steam). Once at temperature, I turned the heat off, put both sneakers in the water, and held them under the water with a jury-rigged system of clamps, kitchen utensils, and a canning rack. I stirred the shoes a few times, and let them sit, with the water cooling, for 10 hours.

I also dyed the shoe laces, but they didn't really take the color, so I swapped the white laces for black ones.