Speaking of Dyes bleeding ...... so profusely at that!
You know - I don't think my mother or grandmother EVER pre-washed cloth - and never seemed to have a problem with colors bleeding - even reds, or blacks
Remember when ... some time ago the government cracked down on our domestic cloth mills for leaching dyes into our streams and rivers ..... (so customers such as my mom didn't have to worry about bleeding?)
Where are those mills now? closed ... where are those jobs? Overseas ....
Yes, now we are importing all types of cloth from dozens of countries that are sending their dyes for us to wash into those same streams and rivers .... And we ooh and ahh at the "new" wonder fabrics .... batiks and embellished and whatever ...
Ladies and Gents ..... beautiful? Definitely! ..... but:
What are we doing here?
We lost jobs and mills and now we don't really care about polluting our streams with other countries' dyes? .....
Why did we make such a stink to get the government to clean up our own domestic dyes going into those same waterways? -and have our moms complain about the high cost of imported fabrics to boot!
Weird world we live in, for sure....