How do you break in a UK Workman?

[GDub]

The Workmans may not break in, but they do fade! I don't know about the carmel color, but I have a brownie and the fading was quite obvious after the first wash (mild soap/cold water/gentle cycle/hung to dry). It's not a bad thing if you're aware that it's going to happen, but I think UK should add to the Workmans description, "These bad boys fade!"

This guy has a "solution," but he later recants a bit on the brownie because ultimately it faded--but it is a way to slow down the process:

Utilikilt Care

Sláinte.

[Monkey@Arms]

The Workmans may not break in, but they do fade! I don't know about the carmel color, but I have a brownie and the fading was quite obvious after the first wash (mild soap/cold water/gentle cycle/hung to dry). It's not a bad thing if you're aware that it's going to happen, but I think UK should add to the Workmans description, "These bad boys fade!"

This guy has a "solution," but he later recants a bit on the brownie because ultimately it faded--but it is a way to slow down the process:

Utilikilt Care

Sláinte.

I think it depends on the fabric/dye lot. My black workman is still very black, and the brown hasn't experienced the kind of drastic change you describe. YMMV.

Best regards,

Jake

[Strings]

THE only thing that has effected my Workman (and this includes doing a roof or three while wearing it) has been battery acid: it's now missing the top/right snap because I didn't realize I had spilled said substance on myself, and somehow neutralize it. Other than that, I haven't been able to do more than fade it a very little bit...

[vorpallemur]

I think it depends on the fabric/dye lot. My black workman is still very black, and the brown hasn't experienced the kind of drastic change you describe. YMMV.

The problems described there sound very much like poor dying. (Either the wrong dye, too much of it, bad process, some combination.) It's not inherent in the fabric, though some colors are hard to make colorfast. and will always fade a bit.