Back in the 1950's I made some cute dresses for my little sister and myself from a beautiful plaid. I always loved plaid and this one had some areas that were black. We wore them for a long time. When they got older I noticed that they were getting holes in the fabric, but only in the black parts.
Sometimes the black dye is hard on the fabric. I sold Tupperware for a while, and at some point we were selling canister sets in a dark brown. It didn't take long to start getting these canister seals back to be replaced as they were cracking. We replaced a lot of the brown ones. Tupperware stopped making them.