If you wash clothing in vinegar before wearing it?

does it keep the colors from fading as fast? Make them less likely to bleed later?


My mother-in-law does this and says that is why. I've never tried it and was wondering if anyone else has tried it and had it work.If you wash clothing in vinegar before wearing it?
Yes vinegar sets the colour in natural blend fabrics. As a fine arts major in university, my mom (who graduated at the age of 55) did a lot of fabric weaving and dying and spinning and dying of wool using both natural dyes and commercial dyes. Vinegar is what she used to set the colour. %26lt;sigh%26gt; yea your M-I-L is right this time.If you wash clothing in vinegar before wearing it?
I have to say that i have never heard of such a thing, and i have been washing for a number of years, and believe it or not i have not had much colour fade and i have had some of my clothes for a long while, i think it is the way people wash their clothes. What i mean is i have and always have done my washing on the right program for the material that i have put into the wash, from hot to cool washes, and as for putting anything other than normal soap powder and softener i have never heard of putting vinegar in the wash.
Us older people were told years ago that vinegar SETS the color in fabric. I'm not sure that it still holds true or if this was meant more for the older cotton fabrics that we usually had. It sure doesn't hurt, and if it helps, your that much better off.
Vinegar will set colors.It's not foolproof but certainly does help.You can also add vinegar to your wash water and your rinse cycle.