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Coloring my kit As all of you have been debating the clown mask (okay, the mask's ugly, but it's a good idea!) I've decided I want to try coloring my practice jacket with the school colors (orange and black - we're the tigers, like everybody else). As such, I want to know what I can use - spray paint of some sort? Dye? Fabric patches? Any suggestions would be helpful. Also, exactly how distracting could i make it (back arm in tiger stripes?).
To all of you classical people refusing to accept anything but white, the world changes, white's a nice tradition but we need some expression, but not something obscene or completely over the top (mask's are the last thing I'd decorate).
-Ian
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Originally posted by MHS Fencer:
To all of you classical people refusing to accept anything but white, the world changes
But change just for the sake of change is a waste of resources better used elsewhere.
white's a nice tradition but we need some expression,
Why, exactly? I know that modern culture ( I use the term loosely  ) conditions us in the West to worship at the altar of the Ego, the unique and distictive I, and the rites are known as Individual Expression. But I have never understood the need to be different just for the sake of being different.
That said, there are spray paints ( or maybe they're actually spray inks ) made for use on fabrics, I believe. Dyes might be too hard to control for stripes; they tend to bleed into adjacent areas, producing unattractive results.
[ 11-06-2001: Message edited by: Inquartata ] Use the Shift key, people! Keyboard manufacturers everywhere are ineffably saddened when you ignore what they made just for you!
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It's just plain lame! Join the SCA if you want to dork out and wear a costume.
Sorry to be so harsh...
-Tad Salyards _____________________________________________
"Even if there were no USFA or FIE, people would still fence."
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Change just for the sake of change is a waste of resources better used elsewhere? Nah, sometimes change just for the sake of change is amusing and entertaining and uses resources which would otherwise be used dying my hair purple or putting odd bumperstickers on my silly car or singing out loud with oldies while dancing in my classroom.
I like the idea of dying a practice jacket, but I suspect my old jacket wouldn't take dye very well. It's a fancy FIE (what, Olympia? can't remember and don't have it here) and the fabric seems pretty resistant to color. Maybe I'll buy a cheap cotton practice jacket and tie-dye it, then give my old jacket a few more competitive years by replacing the zipper and the groin strap.
THAT would be fun, and more productive than buying a vanity plate with a nonsense word on it for my car. Though I might do that too.
--Delia
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Heh, now that would be a jacket to dye for, I suppose...  Use the Shift key, people! Keyboard manufacturers everywhere are ineffably saddened when you ignore what they made just for you!
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Originally posted by Inquartata:
<STRONG>Heh, now that would be a jacket to dye for, I suppose... </STRONG>
OW!...ack...the agony
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Get your girlfriend to wash your kit. It worked for me...
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Gav, good idea, but no girlfriend..!
Anyway, I was trying to see if anybody had suggestions for dyes/paint.
Oh yeah, and this is change for the sake of team spirit. Actually, my practice jacket is a Startex, so I don't know if it would hold the dyes too well. I was thinking maybe something like that Dutch guy had (i think he was dutch) under his arms, sorta of an Ivan Lee lame-esque thing. In that case colored fabric patches might be better?
Ahh, I don't know, help me!
-Ian
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Perhaps Zen tiger stripes?  Use the Shift key, people! Keyboard manufacturers everywhere are ineffably saddened when you ignore what they made just for you!
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Since it is your practice jacket, you can dye it orange.
Then with an airbrush, spray in legible writing "Hey, look at me. I want to be pretentious so I colored my jacket orange". Then, on the front, spray the words "I Luv The Backstreet Boys 4-Ever"
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Originally posted by three_hundred_fifty_five:
<STRONG>Since it is your practice jacket, you can dye it orange.
Then with an airbrush, spray in legible writing "Hey, look at me. I want to be pretentious so I colored my jacket orange". Then, on the front, spray the words "I Luv The Backstreet Boys 4-Ever"</STRONG>
Hahaha
Coloring jackets, its a novel idea, but if you want to be taken seriously as a fencer you should stick to the whites.
Tho, myself and a fellow teammate of mine were talking of how cool it would look to have an american flag across the back of your lame. (kinda like what alot of the european fencers do) Of course it was just an idea and neither of us would seriously consider doing it.
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If you give a man a fire, he is warm for the night.
If you set a man on fire, he is warm for the rest of his life.
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Lame's are too expensive(the good ones anyway) to attempt something like that, IMHO anyway.
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Use an old one to test untill you get a good combo of inks and go for it. I seriously doubt anyone would complain. If you give a man a fire, he is warm for the night.
If you set a man on fire, he is warm for the rest of his life.
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Ahem? Use the Shift key, people! Keyboard manufacturers everywhere are ineffably saddened when you ignore what they made just for you!
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