Question

Why does a shirt or blouse taken from a clothes dryer sometimes cling to your body?

Short answer

Inside the dryer, the clothes get rubbed on the drier's surface and with the other clothes. That is why the clothes become charged. Now, if you take some cloth out, they can polarize the molecules over your skin. Then due to this polarization, there creates opposite change on your skin. As you know, the opposite charges attract, so it clings to your body when you put the cloth.

Step-by-step solution

Concepts

The same charge repels and the opposite charge attracts.

Any charge can polarize the object near it.

Explanation

Inside the dryer, the clothes get rubbed on the drier's surface and with the other clothes. That is why the clothes become charged. Now, if you take some cloth out, they can polarize the molecules over your skin. Then due to this polarization, there creates opposite change on your skin. As you know, the opposite charges attract, so it clings to your body when you put the cloth.