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Denim shorts have never fallen out of fashion, and probably never will. Men and women alike find them as comfortable as they find them stylish, whether on the beach, in the mountains, out in the country, or down in the city. Moreover, they are easy to individualize, even down to varying the shade.
Many people love the bleached look on women and men’s denim shorts, but the bleached variant is not always widely available. The good news is that—with nothing more than a bottle of liquid bleach, a plastic bowl, a plastic trash can liner, a very old towel, a sponge, and a pair of rubber gloves—you can bleach your regular or stretch denim shorts to just the tone you want.
First, cover a flat surface with the towel and set your shorts on the towel. Then, don the rubber gloves and dip your sponge into the plastic bowl of bleach. From there, you can use the sponge to paint bleach patterns on the shorts if you want them to show patterns, doing one or both sides. Or, you can paint the entire pair of shorts. If you want the bleached areas to be lighter, use a little more bleach.
So where does the trash can liner come in? Simple—you insert it into the inside of the shorts. This will prevent the bleach from soaking through and perhaps creating the pattern or shade you are not looking to create.
The most important part of bleaching your black denim shorts is right after you finish the bleach. Run them in the washing machine on cold—with nothing else in the machine, of course. Beware, too, that you do not let the shorts sit too long with bleach before you put them in the machine, unless you might be going for an eaten-into look on your shorts.
If you want to shrink your denim Bermuda shorts a little bit more to fit, put them in the dryer on warm cycle for approximately15 minutes and then let them hang dry. If you want them to shrink further, let them run the dryer for twenty minutes before you hang them. And, if you are not satisfied with the tone you have achieved, you can bleach the shorts once again with the same steps as described above.
