My wife swears most wear comes from drying. She dries on low and hangs to finish.
Of course, we live in a desert where a wet pair of blue jeans will dry in 30 minutes.
When I was a kid, we washed clothes in HOT BOILING WATER from a cast iron pot in the middle of the back yard. The water came from rain barrels, drums actually, under the eaves of the house. Then hand wrong (the wringer was broken) and put on a clothesline. Laundry was an all day affair.............
She’s most likely correct.
Our dryer’s lint filter get waaaay more stuff in it that the washer’s filter does.
But both combined is essentially wearing out our clothes.
Drying on a clothesline doesn’t...............