A word this time rather than a phrase; slub.
Bought half a dozen T-shirts from the menswear section in Sainsbury's. Two are dark colours and just marked 100% cotton. The others in more pastel shades are described as slubs.
Looked the word up. It has various meanings to do with lumps in thread or cloth and also a woven cloth of uneven appearance. Not apparent under the lights in the store but held up to daylight the colours have a relatively even paler streak giving them an uneven experience.
I suspect my Father, professionally a colour chemist, would have said it looked like a dye fault. His habit when buying clothes was often to go over to the shop window to see if things looked different in daylight or between different types of artificial light.
I could have been disappointed and taken them back but they'll do, they'll spend most of their lives outwith the summer worn under a long sleeve anyway.
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