In terms of conservation of mass, how do clothes shrink in the dryer?

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Edit: I was putting on a shrunken sweater and I thought maybe the fabrics were bunched together, so I started tugging at various parts of the sweater to try and loosen the strings. Then it occurred to me that it would never retain its previous shape. Is it just (optically, for lack of a better explanation) smaller because of the tighter fabrics, or did some of the (mass) escape and is somewhere else (ie in the air) or what?

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It ends up in the lint trap, which you have to empty after every load to prevent it catching fire.

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