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[Closed] Why are dusters yellow?

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When you polish something at home, you use a yellow duster. Why are they all yellow? You can't wash them with anything else as the colour runs. I've not got enough of them to make a whole load in the washer. Why are they yellow? Who made that decision and why?


 
Posted : 24/07/2010 3:53 pm
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I think it might be an echo of the old chamois leathers used for cleaning and polishing. There was a lengthy discussion about it on Notes and Queries once, there was a bloke who's company had been making dusters for the best part of a century and he didn't know why they were yellow, but he'd tried making different coloured ones and the public didn't buy them.

As for you, you need to refresh your wardrobe with lots of new summery yellow outfits, that'll solve the problem. Or you could offer to launder Livingston FC's kit each week.


 
Posted : 24/07/2010 4:01 pm
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We have pink ones.


 
Posted : 24/07/2010 4:05 pm
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they're yellow because they're not blue


 
Posted : 24/07/2010 4:06 pm
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True, but mine are blellow.
It's a nice compromise.


 
Posted : 24/07/2010 4:28 pm
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what duster for a forum mountainbiker's unridden lonely unloved bike?


 
Posted : 24/07/2010 4:38 pm
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Theyre just pale if youre colour blind.


 
Posted : 24/07/2010 5:27 pm
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they are made from the pelts of these.

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It's an inhumane trade and must be stopped!


 
Posted : 24/07/2010 5:36 pm
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sorry it was my idea, came up with it in 1940 because I thought it'd cheer folk up.


 
Posted : 24/07/2010 5:47 pm
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This has been discussed here before.

The general consensus was 'because you can see dust on them' I think.


 
Posted : 24/07/2010 10:56 pm
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I'd have thought the general concensus would have been - who really gives a shit?


 
Posted : 24/07/2010 11:55 pm
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who really gives a shit?

People who open threads which ask the question : "Why are dusters yellow?" ❓


 
Posted : 25/07/2010 12:28 am
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It makes RustyBulletHole's t-shirt thread seem interesting.


 
Posted : 25/07/2010 9:54 am
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Lakeland sell white dusters if it bothers you that much 😀


 
Posted : 25/07/2010 10:08 am
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It makes RustyBulletHole's t-shirt thread seem interesting.

Oh come TheArtist, I'm sure you're finding this thread a [i]little bit[/i] interesting.

......surely that's the reason why you keep popping back ? 💡


 
Posted : 25/07/2010 2:04 pm