No idea what may be causing the mildew smell. However, seeing as how it’s less prominent when you hand wash try seeing if the washing machine needs cleaning. Mold, mildew, and grime can build up in the washing machine and get onto your clothes with every wash. There’s filters on newer machines that need cleaning, rubber door gaskets, etc.

That’s when I migrated over here. I’ll still lurk reddit on occasion but on the rare occasion I post I’ll do it here.

Learned a lot about communities I didn’t know existed.

That was the main reason I joined lemmy.ml

Though now I carry connotations of the .ml instance so if I had to do it over again I’d choose another instance.