Letter: Letter: It's a washout

Published 17 February 1990

From MOIRA BRIGGS

Can anyone explain to me why, when a ‘non-fast’ colour washes out of
one garment and into another in a washing machine, it immediately becomes
‘fast’ in the recipient garment?

Moira Briggs Ravenglass, Cumbria

Issue no. 1704 published 17 February 1990

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