During the night the overalls went from bright yellow and red to brown.

This is afterwards, in Tove's bathroom. You are actually now allowed to wash the overalls. But showering is not the same thing as washing, right? After showering them and putting them in the drying cabinet (i but myself in there for a while too) for a couple of hours they smelled like hay and had a dull color and we were ready for the kravall.