kii said:

SCIENCE said:

kii said:

Um….some direct sunshine is good for your clothes.

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Information handed down from the old women in my family. Especially good for sanitizing and deodorizing armpits of t-shirts etc.

Anecdote alert with story and with a pretty picture (not mine).

My boss from the bookstore complained that his shirts still had a bad odour after he washed them. He used a dryer. One woman told him to make a paste of bicarb and smear it on the smelly bits etc. I said he need to dry them in the sunshine, maybe not every wash, but sometimes. Washing/soaking them in bicarb, water and vinegar would assist as well.
He and the woman looked a bit stunned at my suggestion. I mean copious amounts of sunshine in the SW of the USofA, but so many people use dryers. Clotheslines are rare creatures there.