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Step 3 (Optional) Dye Job

I've since heard that one can obtain black fishing jackets, but I didn't see one of those on my late-night trip to the store. Thus, I settled for a tan one and a bottle of black dye.

I basically followed the directions on the bottle here, choosing to dye the vest in my kitchen sink rather than in my washing machine. (That method seemed like a truly horrible idea, with all kinds of painful failure scenarios.)

The pictures don't really show it too well, but the dye actually made the vest a dark chocolate brown, not black, presumably since the source material was tan. (I actually bleached it first to try to get it white, but the bleach didn't do anything to the vest.)

This looks a lot better than the tan did! I am, at this point, excited about the project is proceeding. You know, because I just did a complex step without suffering a grievous wound.

After having fun with the dye, I washed and dried the vest, per the instructions on the bottle.