• fireweed@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    Can’t believe no one has said this yet:

    This happens when you put zip-up clothing in the dryer. The fabric shrinks and shifts but the metal/plastic zipper doesn’t, creating a size mismatch that results in a bulge. Hang-dry your zip-up hoodies instead. I have hoodies that are close to a decade old and still haven’t begun to bunch up because they’ve never seen the inside of a dryer.

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      3 hours ago

      going to shift the blame to the industry and not the user.

      they overstretch the fabric, so it’s bigger and any clothing item can be sold using lest fabric, however most washing will relax the fabric to it’s normal size, messing up the garment.

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      8 hours ago

      This always is happens to my zip-up hoodies, and i’ve never used a dryer in my life. I believe it’s just that the zipper is stiffer than the fabric, so it does not fold the same way as fabric does.

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        7 hours ago

        It could be a badly designed hoodie as well. I started watching a YT channel that examines different clothing brands lately and I learned a lot about how the actual fabric choices and panel shapes affect the comfort of the clothing in ways like this.