Is the dryer shrinking my clothes?

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Or am I having a growth spurt at 40?

Strange... same thing seems to be happening here too...

I can think of a more obvious answer. I think you know it too

Probably a bit of both op

If your jeans are shrinking vertically, then it’s the dryer - horizontally, it’s deffo you 🤣

Haha I don't tumble clothes.. My washing machine shrinks mine. Haha. So I eat choc to console myself... Oh wait it's the choc that makes mine so small lol.

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I can think of a more obvious answer. I think you know it too

It's vertical in this case

Dryers do shrink clothes, I don't understand why they're so popular in that lots of people use the dryer even when the weather's good for drying outside.

We only use ours in winter when it's too wet or cold to go outside and even then I put my jeans and tops on the airer because I don't want my jeans shrinking or having to deal with the creased mess of tops that the dryer produces.

Lesson learned when I realised I have a couple of pairs of jeans that I can only wear inside boots as they're now an inch or two shorter than when I bought them.

Because not everyone has outdoor drying space?
Our last place didn't it was a tiny flat the only place to even put an airer was pretty much in the middle of the floor. The place was tiny. So we didn't have much choice other than to use a dryer.
Now thankfully we have a house with a garden to dry outside most of the time.

I only use TD for bedding and towels. Most clothes I have are not suitable to be put in the drier.

OP are you checking the labels?

Mine is shrinking the clothes - sleeves of a lot of tops are shorter. And length is shorter - I made a gorgeous top last year, a loose tshirt, and the width is still good but the length has shrunk so it is now really more of a crop top last seen on a 1980s breakdancer. Which wasn't the style I had planned for...

But the dryer is so useful. Dilemmas.

I stopped putting most of my stuff in the tumbler. PJ bottoms that started off ankle length ended up mid-shin. It was infuriating.

We must have the same dyed!!

If it's tops are you sure it's not the fridge shrinking them?

My husband always swears it's vertical but it always coincides with an outward growth which makes tees seem shorter!

Clothes definitely sometimes shrink in the dryer, I've got a nightshirt that has ended up more like a t-shirt! Never tumble dry jeans, except if desperate and then only gentle.

Yes dryers do shrink some fabrics. I thought this was common knowledge.

Interesting that some people are taking the OP literally. My guess is that these people are thin.

The OP does say vertically. And that she's 40 and therefore more likely to shrink in height herself than vertically grow out of her clothes.