Sunshine Helps Kill Germs Indoors

Re:Sunshine Helps Kill Germs Indoors by Symbiote on Friday October 19, 2018 @04:57AM (#18255241)

I've only lived at 50-55° N, and 99% of my clothes are black. They seem to last much longer without fading if I don't use a dryer. On cheaper t-shirts, the dryer gradually ruins the elastic around the neck.

I use the dryer for clothes that don't matter, and line dry the nicer ones.

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Re:Sunshine Helps Kill Germs Indoors by AstralStorm on Friday October 19, 2018 @06:41AM (#18255662)

Mostly because the tumbling damages the material by abrasion. The damaged fibres look dull and hold the pigment much worse.

Likewise washing without tumbling is much gentler but clothes dry a lot longer.

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Re:Sunshine Helps Kill Germs Indoors by Symbiote on Friday October 19, 2018 @11:01AM (#18257152)

I took some super-macro photos to try and see this, but there wasn't as much difference as I hoped.

The second photo is my newest t-shirt, and the fourth is the oldest.

https://imgur.com/a/8wzFWki?

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Re:Sunshine Helps Kill Germs Indoors by ChristianBundy on Friday October 19, 2018 @12:21PM (#18257784)

> but there wasn't as much difference as I hoped

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?

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Re:Sunshine Helps Kill Germs Indoors by Symbiote on Friday October 19, 2018 @02:54PM (#18259041)

Yeah, but the fourth is an old item. The second is the newest.

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.

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