The Mystery of the Self-Righting Shirt

[joeekaitis]

Take off the Dickies cotton/poly polo work shirt. Make sure it's inside-out to protect the appearance. Toss it in the hamper. Repeat with t-shirts worn during the week.

On laundry day, check each one again as it goes into the Frigidaire Affinity front-loader. Yep, all accounted for and inside-out. Time passes. Washer's done, transfer to the dryer a few pieces at a time without checking (wet laundry is heavy and hard to manage, even after the extended 1050 RPM spin). Time passes again. Dryer stops, clean the lint filter, unload the dry clothes into a clothes basket. Dump the basket on the bed as a sorting and folding surface and there it is: at least one polo and/or tee that has miraculously turned itself right-side-out, including the sleeves and collar.

Does it happen to you, too? Paranormal activity? Time to call Zak, Aaron and the rest of the Ghost Adventures crew?[this post was last edited: 10/18/2016-18:52]

 

[DADoES]

 
Surely it happens.  Casual shorts, too.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

I occasionally experience that with shirts, too, and sometimes even my wife's slacks, as well! (She's real small but still it mysteriously happens...)

 

 

-- Dave

 

[vacerator]

No ghost busters

needed, but mine usually come out a little just to the left than the right.
Some say that's also where heaven is.

 

[ptcruiser51]

Peculiarality

I have a 90s model General Electric washer, a step above BOL.

Thought I was going cuckoo for the longest time. I, too, wash my clothes inside-out because of the horror of the psoriasis that curses me.

Always amazed that the clothes come out "reversed". Clean, but not the way they went "in". Even sewn-in pockets are reversed.

Never experienced this with my OL's Kenmore 70 or my sister's Maytag Bravos.

I have worse things to worry about...

 

[appnut]

Yes it happens to me too.

 

[tomturbomatic]

Look, There's a sign post up ahead. Your clothes have just entered the Laundry Zone.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

OK, here's what's creepy: My UNDERWEAR that I wash INSIDE-OUT, doing that!!!!

 

 

-- Dave

 

[vacerator]

So long as

the hash marks come out. My mom used to tell us to make sure we wiped better.
"Mom, you fed us beans yesterday" It's got nothing to do with wiping better.

 

[joeekaitis]

Surely it happens. Casual shorts, too.

And stop calling me Shirley.

 

[lordkenmore]

What's interesting is that I've heard about the problems of clothes turning inside out during the wash when the clothes are put in without turning inside out (i.e., just left the way they would be if being worn, unless one wears clothes inside out!). According to one explanation, this is explained that clothes are made inside inside out (so the seams can be sewn, etc), and that's the "default" state clothes want to get back to.

I don't notice much trouble. I have tended to just load the washer and be done with it, although I have considered turning clothes inside out due to arguments of extended wear. (I do sometimes turn some things inside out due to such arguments). So I don't pay much attention to how things come out, unless there is a reason. ("Must check to see if the HUGE STAIN on the gray shirt is still there before drying it!"

 

[lordkenmore]

Actually, as I think of it, as a user of a BOL DD, I'd assume clothes turn themselves inside out (in relation to how they were loaded) in the wash because the outside side is getting sore from all that beating from the washer!