Why do some clothes shrink when washed in hot water and why can’t they stretch back to their normal size?
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Certain types of natural fiber can get cooked at the relatively low temperatures in a washer/dryer. The proteins change with heat.
It’s like if you cooked a piece of meat into some beef jerky and it shrinks. You can kinda stretch it a little but cooking it has changed the stuff it’s made of to be different than it was forever. There is no good way to uncook it.
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