Was not wrong to let it soak. Question is how long? I got old blood stains out of a pillowcase last week but it soaked for 2 days. Perfect now.

No one could know about the buttons which clearly were not color fast.

I agree you did nothing wrong..but you may have to remove the buttons and than soak again....you can save next day wash problems if you sew different buttons on. I would do another oxi soak in cool water you can let it soak for seversl days but change it out since oxygen bleach is only active for 6 hours and enzymes 4 hours.

Pouring boiling water thru the stain will remove grape juice stains and it's supposed to work with raspberry, cherry and blackberry stains, too. I've used the boiling water trick on fresh Welch's grape juice stains so I know that it works for grape juice.

Thanks, guys. Strangely, I was so flustered, changing the buttons never occurred to me! Duh. I will try Alex's sun bleach, and if that doesn't do it, I'll snip the buttons off and re-ox it.

And to clarify, Clorox nailed the fruit stains and now I'm left with my button stains. Lesson learned about buttons.

Remember the heat from direct sun if it doesn't remove the stain it will oxidize it....haha

Squirt pure lemon juice on a white shirt with a tomato based stain and put it in the sun... gone

It never would have occurred to me that buttons would not be color safe.

Where to buttons plastic tortoise shell, or a nut based material that looks like tortoise shell? I would think that plastic would not leach, but anything painted, or plant material could.

The buttons would have surprised me too, I don't think you could have anticipated that. I don't find fresh berry juices to be a problem but I do try to wash the same day dirtied. I picked wild blackberries in a white 100% cotton sweatshirt yesterday. Tide HE, hot, and sparkling clean this morning, no soak.

FWIW, I use Oxymagic spray pre-treatment on fruit juice stains & it often takes them out before I even put the items in the washer.

enduring, they look like plastic to me. Very odd. Made in China, no doubt.

Some of the backs of these buttons that bleed have a thin almost felt type fabric on the backs of them.