If water is clear, then why does it make your blue jeans darker when you get them wet?

Answer 1

When light strikes a window pane, some of it is reflected and the rest of it proceedes through. If anything is on the other side of the window pane, the light will strike it, bouunce back to the window, and some of it will be reflected back into the room and the rest will travel through, allowing you to see the object inside.

A similar thing happens when you wet jeans. The water changes the way the light "bounces" off your jeans. Basically it causes more light to be reflected when it hits the surface of the water (shiney wet surface effect) and less light to travel back through once it strikes the fibres in your jeans. So the jeans look darker because less light is getting to them and less light is getting back to you.

Answer 2

your jeans look darker because of the dye in them when they're wet.

Answer 3

The liquid tends to draw the fibers closer together by swelling them creating the ILLUSION of it being darker

Answer 4

depends. Most things get darker if you get them wet. Im not saying all things do.

Answer 5

it has nothing to do with the color of the water...jeans soak in liquid...its the liquid that is being soaked in that makes jeans look darker...hey...it works w/every color! orange clothes turn dark orange because every fiber is holding in quanities of liquid!

Answer 6

BECAUSE YOUR JEANS SOAK UP WATER THAT MAKES THEME LOOK DARKER

Answer 7

It darkens them because it swells the fabric which has dye in it. It brings the color of the dye out.

Answer 8

the water helps the blue light refection more intense...

Answer 9

Water is a tease!