It's strange to me that some clothing fabrics distinctly change color when I wipe my wet hands on them, while others do not. For instance, I can wipe wet hands on bluejeans and it's completely unnoticable, whereas if I wipe water onto a cotton shirt it makes the shirt look wet. Both the jeans and the shirt are cotton, but they take water differently. There seem to be several factors that affect how clothing looks after being wiped with water:
- Material -- cotton, silk, polyester, etc.
- Texture -- weave(?), thickness, roughness
- Color
Are there some unifying characteristics involved that I'm not noticing?
As far as I have noticed,
- Very dark colors can hide moisture well,, very light colors not so well, and in-between colors not at all. (I say this based on how much darker they get when wet).
- A fabric whose look has a coarse-grainedd high-contrast visual texture, like jeans, most boxer shorts, and the carpet in my cubicle, will hide moisture (and most other stains) well since the variance caused by the stain is "hidden" in the more severe and closely-spaced changes in color of the material. If the material is visually noisy, the stain/moisture gets lost in the noise.
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