# Laundry Question

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laundry-question/303830>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 14, 2005, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laundry-question/303830 "2005-05-14T15:47:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![NadaHappyCamper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/278dde/32.png) [@NadaHappyCamper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NadaHappyCamper)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2005, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laundry-question/303830/1 "2005-05-14T15:47:15Z")

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I am in a quandry about my laundry. The following is the puzzlement.  
When I wash & dry my skivvies, the larger precentage of the T’s come out of the dryer inside / outside, regardless of how I start them. The skivvy britches do not do this particular behaviour. Why does this happen?

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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2005, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laundry-question/303830/2 "2005-05-14T21:41:02Z")

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Something even stranger than that: in a previous relationship of mine, my partner’s t-shirts would usually turn inside-out, but mine usually didn’t. We could never figure this out.

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**Author:** ![Sycorax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@Sycorax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sycorax)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2005, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laundry-question/303830/3 "2005-05-14T21:59:26Z")

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I once saw a question in Heloise’s hints about why clothes come out of the dryer wrongside-out. The response was that it had to do with the way the clothes are made – that if put in right-side out, they automatically want to revert to their original positon of wrongside out (I assume that to mean the way they were sewed.) Well, I put t-shirts and such in the washer wrongside-out, but they come out of the dryer inside-in, so I still have to turn them rightside-out. Or something like that. I’m confused.