Why shouldn't you tumble dry 100% cotton clothes?

[ZombiePlanB]

What can happen?

Now it's winter and with 2dc I am suddenly loving the washing machine / tumble dryer. But I don't undertand why lots of clothes say no TD.

I won't if it's not cotton, or has a print but otherwise it should be OK?

What could happen? [perplexed]

because they shrink

have always tubled dried sootn (when I had the money to run tumble dryer!). First time wash shrinks cottom - I didn;t notice dryer shrinking it any more.

sootn = cotton!

I do it anyway, and I've never ruined anything yet.

I don't know if they shrink but clothes do get thinner in the tumble dryer and will get holes in a lot quicker. I love the tumble dryer but never use it for any own clothes or the children's nicer clothes.

I tumble dry just about everything

I think socks shrink over time though

Right, thanks. I don't do any nice clothes, just things like babygros, Jim jams.

Tshirts with prints....do the prints start melting? All dh t shirts are a) huge and b) have prints on. They take aggggessssss to dry.

I tumble dry dh's t-shirts and after a while it is not good for the print. But I don't really care as they are mostly free t-shirts.

LOL so only tumble dry the tshirts with prints that I don't like. Clever!