In contrast, my experience with the dryer is clothes and up looking threadbare and worn from a high heat dryer. Just look at how quickly the lint trap fills up.
I wash my clothes and dry them according to type with automatic settings which end the cycle early if the clothes are dry before the full cycle is complete
On the flip side when I lived in a place where dying clothes outside was the norm there was no avoiding sun bleached clothes unless you dryer your clothes at night (which only partially worked because it was a tropical climate)
Another benefit of line drying is you don't need to iron, we don't iron clothing. The only times I've ironed in the last couple of decades is job-interviews and attending Buck House.
I use the dryer for clothes that don't matter, and line dry the nicer ones.
Likewise washing without tumbling is much gentler but clothes dry a lot longer.
The second photo is my newest t-shirt, and the fourth is the oldest.
That looks like a huge difference to me, the first shot looks super old whereas the last shot looks brand new. What sort of difference were you hoping for?
I wonder if I'm looking at it the wrong way, and all the "fluff" has been sucked out of the fourth one by the dryer, which probably weakens it.