I noticed that my neighbour had hung some trousers on the line to dry, and
that they were inside out. I vaguely remember my mother saying something
about this practice ~ 60 years ago.... What are the supposed advantages,
and what am I missing by not bothering?
Thanks

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I noticed that my neighbour had hung some trousers on the line to dry, and
that they were inside out. I vaguely remember my mother saying something
about this practice ~ 60 years ago.... What are the supposed
advantages,
and what am I missing by not bothering?
Thanks

It might prevent bleaching, I can't think of any other reason.

I don't bother.

Mary

Mary Fisher wrote:
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I noticed that my neighbour had hung some trousers on the line to dry, and
that they were inside out. I vaguely remember my mother saying something
about this practice ~ 60 years ago.... What are the supposed
advantages,
and what am I missing by not bothering?
Thanks

It might prevent bleaching, I can't think of any other reason.

I don't bother.

Mary

not really a problem with modern dyes,

NT

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It might prevent bleaching, I can't think of any other reason.

I don't bother.

Mary

not really a problem with modern dyes,

Showed this to SWMBO. She says a lot of dyes still fade (actually, I
know they do).

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not really a problem with modern dyes,

NT

You gotta be joking.

Some modern dyes certainly fade in the sun.

Some people like this appearance.

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yped

not really a problem with modern dyes,

NT

You gotta be joking.

Some modern dyes certainly fade in the sun.

Yes they do. They don't even need sun, just daylight and even some
artificial lights will do it.

Some people like this appearance.

Yes, it neither appeals to me nor offends me, it happens :-)

Mary

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It might prevent bleaching, I can't think of any other reason.
I don't bother.
Mary

As it was sunny this pm when I noticed, I thought it might be that, but then
I think I'd prefer not to have bird droppings etc. next to my "delicate"
skin!

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As it was sunny this pm when I noticed, I thought it might be that, but then
I think I'd prefer not to have bird droppings etc. next to my "delicate"
skin!

I must confess to rewashing things which receive birds' calling cards.

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"Malcolm Stewart" wrote in
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I noticed that my neighbour had hung some trousers on the line to dry, and
that they were inside out. I vaguely remember my mother saying something
about this practice ~ 60 years ago.... What are the supposed
advantages,
and what am I missing by not bothering?
Thanks

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Turning most clothes inside out on the washing line will minimise but not
prevent bleaching. If you read the labels many items of clothing tell you to
this when washing, hanging to dry and/or ironing.

Another reason, many decades ago, was because the air was much dirtier and
you did not want your clean clothes dirtied by all the muck from the nearby
copper mines, steel-works, coal-tips, chimneys, steam engines, etc, etc. If
the clothes were inside out then the dirty side did not get covered in soot
and muck and you could still wear them. I know it sounds yuck today but that
was also a reason many years ago.

Fifty years from now people will be looking back and wondering why we
dirtied our environment with diesel engines that fouled the atmosphere and
gave us all asthma and other chronic lung dieseases.


John.

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Another reason, many decades ago, was because the air was much dirtier and
you did not want your clean clothes dirtied by all the muck from the
nearby
copper mines, steel-works, coal-tips, chimneys, steam engines, etc, etc.
If
the clothes were inside out then the dirty side did not get covered in
soot
and muck and you could still wear them. I know it sounds yuck today but
that
was also a reason many years ago.

John.

Thanks for reminding me about the filth in which somehow we survived.
I remember back in the '60s just after I'd bought a light coloured raincoat,
waiting (in light drizzle) for a bus that it wasn't long before my coat had
changed to a shade of grey, and had to be washed before its next outing.
(This was when parts of the UK had gone smoke-free, whilst others were still
waiting their turn.)

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On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 20:58:44 GMT, "John Smith"
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Fifty years from now people will be looking back and wondering why we
dirtied our environment with diesel engines that fouled the atmosphere and
gave us all asthma and other chronic lung dieseases.


John.

The way we are going, 50 years from now, the ants might be wondering
where those huge shoe-creatures that used to persecute them have all
disappeared to.

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On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 20:58:44 GMT, "John Smith"
wrote:

Fifty years from now people will be looking back and wondering why we
dirtied our environment with diesel engines that fouled the atmosphere and
gave us all asthma and other chronic lung dieseases.


John.

The way we are going, 50 years from now, the ants might be wondering
where those huge shoe-creatures that used to persecute them have all
disappeared to.

Ants? It is the potatoes we have to be worried about. They will eventually
take over the planet after the moles have run things for a while. The
potatoes will then invent Time machines and comes back to reek vengance on
all their ancestors who were scrapped, peeled, boiled, chipped and smashed!

Malcolm
Take any top that has been dried out on a line for most of its life and
compare the colour inside a pocket or on the inside of the garment. It
will be much more vivid. This is why we turn clothes inside out. The
main area to get bleaching is where the line is (because that small
strip faces straight up) so you can end up getting clothes that are
bleached in stripes... its funny that people are now paying extra for
this effect from new and then tumble dry their washing even in the
summer.
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Malcolm
Take any top that has been dried out on a line for most of its life and
compare the colour inside a pocket or on the inside of the garment. It
will be much more vivid. This is why we turn clothes inside out.
snip

Thanks
Living on my own, I've never felt the need for an external washing line, and
all my washing (for the last 25 years) has been dried inside, in my utility
room.

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I noticed that my neighbour had hung some trousers on the line to dry, and
that they were inside out. I vaguely remember my mother saying something
about this practice ~ 60 years ago.... What are the supposed
advantages,
and what am I missing by not bothering?
Thanks

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Turning most clothes inside out on the washing line will minimise but not
prevent bleaching.

Is it significant for trousers though? I'm sure the time my trousers
spend hanging on the line is much less than the amount of time I spend
wearing them the right way out, out of doors . . . maybe I should look
at washing and drying them more often?

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Malcolm Stewart wrote:
I noticed that my neighbour had hung some trousers on the line to dry, and
that they were inside out. I vaguely remember my mother saying something
about this practice ~ 60 years ago.... What are the supposed advantages,
and what am I missing by not bothering?
Thanks

They were probably washed inside out. Doing so prevents the fabric from
abbrasion effects in contact with other clothes and the walls of the
washing machine.

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"Adrian C" wrote


They were probably washed inside out. Doing so prevents the fabric from
abbrasion effects in contact with other clothes and the walls of the
washing machine.

And when you come to iron them, a rare event in our household, depending on
what the material is ironing inside out prevents a shine developing on the
surface of the cloth.

H

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that they were inside out. I vaguely remember my mother saying something
about this practice ~ 60 years ago.... What are the supposed
advantages,
and what am I missing by not bothering?
Thanks

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One explanation is that the pockets will dry out more easily.

I doubt if many trousers would have been washable 60 years ago, but when
washable / drip-dry trousers became common in the 1960s the pockets were
often still made from cotton material which took longer to dry than the body
of the trousers.

Cic.

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wrote this:-

One explanation is that the pockets will dry out more easily.

Indeed.

Sweatshirts also dry much more quickly if turned inside out.


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On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 07:39:05 GMT someone who may be "Cicero"
wrote this:-

One explanation is that the pockets will dry out more easily.

Indeed.

Sweatshirts also dry much more quickly if turned inside out.

You've done a comparitive test???

Well, I suppose everyone needs a hobby - but I wouldn't want bone dry
clothes to iron.

Mary

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On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 07:39:05 GMT someone who may be "Cicero"
wrote this:-

One explanation is that the pockets will dry out more easily.

Indeed.

Sweatshirts also dry much more quickly if turned inside out.

You've done a comparitive test???

Well, I suppose everyone needs a hobby - but I wouldn't want bone dry
clothes to iron.

Mary


You would iron sweat shirts?

Each to her own!

I hang clothes out in whatever state they emerge from the machine.

Inside out garments remain so.

Nothing gets folded or put away until bone dry.

Sweat shirts dry faster inside out...

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Sweatshirts also dry much more quickly if turned inside out.

You've done a comparitive test???

Well, I suppose everyone needs a hobby - but I wouldn't want bone dry
clothes to iron.

Mary


You would iron sweat shirts?

Of course! Even I have some standards :-)


Sweat shirts dry faster inside out...

You've done a comparitive test?

I couldn't be bothered but each to his own :-)

Mary

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Sweatshirts also dry much more quickly if turned inside out.

You've done a comparitive test???

No. However, I have tried drying them both ways.


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On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 14:10:40 +0100 someone who may be "Mary Fisher"
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Sweatshirts also dry much more quickly if turned inside out.

You've done a comparitive test???

No. However, I have tried drying them both ways.

There are, as I'm sure you know, many influencing factors!

David Hansen wrote:
On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 07:39:05 GMT someone who may be "Cicero"
wrote this:-

One explanation is that the pockets will dry out more easily.

Indeed.

Sweatshirts also dry much more quickly if turned inside out.

also if you have a printed message or picture on a tshirt it does not fade
as I have t shirts with parrots on the front so has a pal of mine and his
parrots you can hardly see,he wears them to work mine are still looking like
new

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "Malcolm Stewart"
saying something like:

I noticed that my neighbour had hung some trousers on the line to dry, and
that they were inside out. I vaguely remember my mother saying something
about this practice ~ 60 years ago.... What are the supposed advantages,
and what am I missing by not bothering?

Fluff balls don't matter if they stick to the insides.
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