I thought this was too, until I washed my white work clothes with a bright yellow shirt. Suddenly my white shirts look permanently dirty.
one time my red pullover converted one of my white sjirts into a pink one, but otherwise ive got a clean slate in the last 10 years
Generally, the problem is if you wash brand new synthetic clothing, the dyes will be fresh and leak onto other clothes, this isnt really a problem if you have the same shirt for a long time or buy thriftee clothes
Real rule:
You can drop them all together, coz all clothes are so low quality, those won’t last long enough to lost colors during mixed washings.
Some additions.
You can mix colors, just don’t add white clothes, especially when the color clothes are new.
Me who wears clothes that are 12+ years old:
also don’t use a clothes dryer and your stuff will last way longer
I just use a clothes dryer on low or, sometimes, even extra low. There’s an even an air-dry option that works better than just leaving things to hang.
This goes especially for humid climates. My stuff would never in the summer and even in the winter it would take a long time. The button-ups and pants that I do hang to dry take forever to be ready.
Why do dryers lower the lifespan of clothing?
The heat, as @87Six@lemmy.zip already mentioned, won’t help - not to mention the inside of some dryers can have a cheese grater effect on the clothing tumbling around inside of it.
Thx for the explanation
Afaik heat doesn’t really do good to textiles in general
Then there is someone like me that still wears 5 to 10 year old clothes that still look fresh 🙈
where did you buy them?
It must be detergent or washers are easier on clothes. Growing up, all my clothes eventually became the same dirty pink color when I’d wash colors together. These days I just dump everything in and toss in some laundry soap, maybe some softener if we have it around, and I still have clothes that are 20 years old and in regular rotation. Colorful as always.
Its improvement in dyes more than anything, not detergent
Yeah, could be. I still have some old stuff though (my grandpas shirt which has got to be 50 years old). I don’t wear it much, but I still wash it when I do…
Do you wash in hot or cold water?
This is the right question. I always use cold water unless something is soiled. Or maybe towels if there’s nothing else in there.
I think detergents have gotten good enough to work just as well in cold water, and that’s mostly why it’s better.
Yeah, cold for everything except whites (they get warm plus bleach). Else these days I do still try to separate them into dark and light colors. Jeans do still fade but it doesn’t transfer to the rest.
After switching to black socks years ago, I haven’t really had whites in a long time.
Once you go black, you don’t go back ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
You put them all in because you think it will be fine, I put them all in because I don’t care. We are not the same.
Said like a man who didn’t have to go to high school gym class with pink Fruit Of The Loom tighty-whities.
user error. why would you have white underwear in the first place? terrible colour for hiding my skid stains when working under the neighbour’s sink
Well I guess you’re right, I don’t have any white underwear.
All brown, huh?
and red. there have been… incidents.
It never happens. Untill it does. Ask me how I know.
Enjoy your new pink shirts though!
Solution: don’t own white shirts
Or yellow, or tan, or light grey, or baby blue, or anything striped with white/any of those colors…
did dyes/laundry detergent change/get better?
because I swear it was an issue when growing up.
Same with ironing clothes.
Yes, actually
A combination of better dyes that don’t bleed as much, and detergent that works better in colder water (which bleeds less dyes).
Yeah someone on tumblr (? Ok i forget where) had a great explanation about the improvements in “clothes-cleaning juice” over the years.
Tl;dr it’s not a problem anymore, usually, but it used to be.
Depends on the items and their age, but yes, you should generally be fine.
The last time I had an issue was some coloured pillow cases that bled all over my white bedsheets.
I’ve still heard that you should wash new clothes on their own as they might have residual colour pigment in them which could affect your other clothes. But yeah, things have changed, and for the most part I don’t care about that stuff anymore.
Maybe it’s because we wash our clothes mostly around 40°C now and with enzymes as opposed to whatever the F they used to do.You should wash all new clothes BEFORE you wear them. They spray them with poison and repellent to protect them from bugs and critters during shipping from across the world.
I always wash new things separately now, after a I bought my son a Sonic blanket. That thing covered everything in the washer and dryer with blue fuzz.
Mmmm… microplastics 🤤
I’ve never had issues mixing unlike colors, I think the key is to set the water temp to cold.
Yeah as long as you don’t fucking boil the mixed colours you’ll be fine.
Soup time!
White clothes and heavily colored stuff with a “wash separately first time” label goes separately. And thats about it 🤷
It’s fine a nice cornflower blue on all your shirts is actually delightful
Is that a washing machine with a vertical drum?
They’re called top-loaders and they’re so much less efficient that the Energy Star requirements straight up allow them to use more water than a front loader while still being called “high efficiency”.
Better for slam-dunking your clothes, as you can see.
Is that strange to you?
Yes, as far as I know, all machines sold for domestic use here have drums aligned to the X-axis (top-loading with drum doors) or Z-axis (front-loading), never Y. I only saw a quick-spin-drying centrifuge in a swimming pool’s hair-drying room.
Edit: in engineering, I almost always see the Y axis as vertical. X is left-right and Z is backward (−)-forward (+) for a right-handed 3D Cartesian system. It’s also like this in Super Mario 64.
The washer in the photo is top-loading though? Which would be the Y-axis.
All of the washing machines my family owned growing up looked like that.
Yup, my photo shows an unusual machine in my country. Neither does it do anything except an express spin cycle nor is it for domestic use.
I hadn’t seen a side loading washer until I was in high school, if not college. Maybe saw them in stores in high school.
Do you mean front-loading? Yes, there are ones with side-aligned drums but those are top-loading and use drum doors.
Is this not a top loading one? It just looks like a standard one with the agitator stick in the middle, which is i think whats holding the clothes
Like this but an older 2000s model
This is a top loading washer with a drum aligned in the Z-axis. Using your coordinate system, the Y-axis would be a front-loading washer that’s pointing a different direction.
it’d be a side loading washing machine. can’t put it next to the dryer because you wouldn’t be able to access the door.
Side-loading? Nah, top-loading with a drum door.
that’s the wackest shit i’ve seen all week.
I’m so confused by this thing
I SO badly wanna try it
Oh god, I’ve gotten old haven’t I? I see a new kind of washer and I wanna give it a try.
My Y-axis is vertical, sorry for not having specified that. Looking for 3D Cartesian diagrams online, there is about an even split between XY being the horizontal plane and a vertical one.
I have one like that. It’s a pain in the ass to grab socks from the bottom because I’m super short.
I feel your pain. As a tall person, I hate front loaders cause I can’t take anything out of the washer without hurting my back.
Cold water, separate white items. It really only takes a couple minutes. Eventually even if there isnt an immediate stark change in tint on the item, over time it’ll steadily become more and more off-white. It looks noticeably worse imo.
I just have all black, no problems
You still have to sort the black turtlenecks from the Slightly Darker Black turtlenecks though.
Or you can just leave’em all in and equalise the colours! No more worries, ever! Everything’ll be carbon black and that’s that!
This right here. The hell do you need multiple colors for?
I do prefer dark blue, though.
My personal preference in color is incompatible with the local weather for half of the year.
I’m wearing black in winter to catch more heat and also black in the summer to hide the sweat stains. Can’t lose
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This is the way.
