It really depends on what brand of sock and where you got it. The trick is to go there again and get another pair.

Is this a serious question? How much poop was in the underwear? Anything looks brown because it’s covered in poop, then wash it again. In fact, wash the whole load again (without a load of poop).

If you’re serious, and one of your socks looks faded or bleached, but is clean, then you do have some options. This didn’t happen because there was a skidmark in your underwear, though. It’s most likely bleached, which can be caused by the sun, or some other chemicals on your sock (assuming you didn’t put bleach in with your dark clothes). It could also have been residual bleach from the last wash. You’ll want to figure out why it happened so it doesn’t happen again.

For a bleached sock, your best bet is probably re-dying the sock. Get some black dye (which is uaully a really dark blue or brown, actual black is tricky) that is specifically made for cotton/poly blend. Pure polyester needs special dye at high temps to take it in, so be prepared for mixed results.

Another option is to bleach the other sock to match. This is tricky, because it will be tough to match the lightness, and you risk ruining the socks since the bleach dissolves the fabric a little. And then your socks look poopy, as Jamie Tartt would say.

Option 3 is to just wear the socks. It sounds like you’re describing an athletic sock, and if you’re playing a sport in shorts, who cares if one sock looks weird? If you’re wearing long pants, people aren’t likely to see or care about your socks.

If it’s part of a uniform where it matters that you’re wearing black socks, go ahead and buy another pair. Keep the bleached one to polish your shoes, and then you’ll have three black socks in your laundry in case you lose one to the sock goblins that live in the dryer.

We’re gonna need a picture of the sock.

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Use warm water to wash your clothes? Don’t poop in your underpants?? Rinse the poop off before you put it in the machine???

I believe you are talking about the yellow discoloration. That’s from leaving the clothes dirty for an extended amount of time and when you wash the detergent turns the stains yellow instead of removing them. You are letting your pile of clothes build up too long.

poop knife vibe

Just one sock of the pair is discolored? Maybe try washing the just the other sock with some poopy underwear to make it browner so the pair matches again.

Dawg, it’s a sock. It’s not worth the time spent or the interest of a hundred people on Lemmy. Buy more. Value your time.

Embrace the poop sock

Some kinds of black dyes are actually just really dark brown. When they start to fade they turn lighter which reveals the brown colour. There’s no way a poop stain transferred to your sock in the laundry. The enzymes in laundry detergent break that stuff down and keep it suspended in the water.

I doubt it’s poop, but you can always wash your clothes again (remove any foreign material if there is any in your washer). Most likely, your black socks were cheaply dyed and the dye washed out. Same thing happened with my mountain biking gloves, which lost a lot of their yellow dye after I bled into them and washed them.

I’m gonna go ahead and assume the question was asked in good faith and answer it the same way.

If your washing machine is working, there should be no fecal matter left on the clothes after washing. However, many clothes lose color over time due to a number of factors, one being the dye slowly bleeding into wash water each time you do laundry. Many black dyes start to look orange or brownish as they fade, and two socks won’t necessarily fade at the same rate. The only way to put the color back is to redye them, which might not work depending on what the sock is made out of.

I wouldn’t worry about poop, these are clean, just faded . However, if you want to have 2 black socks, you’re gonna have to buy a new pair.

It might be an old sock. Either way…you need to chuck it in the bin and buy a new sock.