Poll: How often do you wash your jeans?
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I voted "every couple of months", but to be honest, I actually only wash them with that regularity if they are lying around and I'm putting a wash together. More often than not, I just wait until they need a wash because something has been spilt on them or they've got excessively dirty.
Soldato
I don't know, i'll have to ask my mum.
Anyone who wears jeans for more than week must smell horrible, it doesnt matter how clean you are 3-4 days of wearing the same jeans is probably the limit, any longer and they start smell. Kids can get away with it, adults can't, the amount of people I've interviewed over years that stink is just shocking.
Even if you can't smell it, it's likely people around you will so be considerate and wash your damn clothes.
Even if you can't smell it, it's likely people around you will so be considerate and wash your damn clothes.
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Crotch Stenk = Wash
When **** gets that funky musk you know its time for a freshen up.
However, some manufactures of raw denim recommend not washing for the first 6 months. And only washing a total of 6 times!!
This Guardian article gives the full breakdown on this stinky issue.
http://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2014/oct/24/why-you-should-never-ever-wash-your-jeans-unless-you-really-really-have-to
When **** gets that funky musk you know its time for a freshen up.
However, some manufactures of raw denim recommend not washing for the first 6 months. And only washing a total of 6 times!!
This Guardian article gives the full breakdown on this stinky issue.
http://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2014/oct/24/why-you-should-never-ever-wash-your-jeans-unless-you-really-really-have-to
Associate
Love it,
Soldato
Only when they start feeling like cardboard. Jeans should NOT be washed often.
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Associate
Washed immediately if they become filthy from doing something such as crawling under the car in the garage.
When worn normally about the house & outside, maybe once a month. They definitely don't start stinking after only 1 week!
When worn normally about the house & outside, maybe once a month. They definitely don't start stinking after only 1 week!
It varies a lot, most £40-60 jeans I've had last over a year with frequent washing with moderate colour loss. Yet some branded jeans at £80+ are heavily discoloured and in some cases falling apart in 3 months.
How long do you need them to last? I think a year is pretty good, are you trying to make them last a decade or something? Are you really that cheap?
Soldato
Anyone who wears jeans for more than week must smell horrible, it doesnt matter how clean you are 3-4 days of wearing the same jeans is probably the limit, any longer and they start smell. Kids can get away with it, adults can't, the amount of people I've interviewed over years that stink is just shocking.
Even if you can't smell it, it's likely people around you will so be considerate and wash your damn clothes.
Not everyone is a stinky person like you
one of my jeans I haven't washed in 3-4 months, it doesn't smell at all, its not dirty, so why should I clean it?What you are describing is OCD, it's a disorder and I call it a disorder because i've been there and done that, used to clean my clothes nearly everyday, even sitting on a bus seat or train used to make me clean all my clothes, wash hair everyday, have showers couple of times a day, etc, its a disorder and its irrational behavhiour.
If your clothes is stinking out after every few days, then improve your personal hygiene, clean your backside after a poo properly, take a wee properly on a seated toilet instead of a nasty urinal and having bits of urine on your clothes, stop sweating so much and have a shower more often, etc.
That's disgusting.
For any adults that are active all clothes start to smell after a few days, it's normal and there is nothing you can do about it. If you don't have this problem you are either a child or your musky smell is now so bad your sense of smell has all but gone.
I work in HR, I've had to tell a lot of deluded people they stink, I gave up being polite about it years ago.
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Soldato
I have a very string sense of smell, so much so I can't eat some type of food cos it make smy taste buds too sensitive, so I would know if my clothes stank, i've just smelt three of my main jeans, the 3 months unwashed one, the washed but worn couple of times one and a brand new one worn a handful of time so far, and neither of them smell, or have any smell, i'm not over lying or over exaggerating when I say that.
Compare that to my t shirts, I just smelt one I havent washed in a month and it does have that feint sweat smell, although you have to sniff pretty hard to smell it, but being the winter I haven't sweated as much as in the summer, and when I do sweat its always on upper torso body area, I don't seem to sweat at all on my legs. I don't know if this makes any difference to clothes but I work in a permanent air conned room.
PS: I change my undies once every 3 weeks, it usually smells of cauliflower.
Compare that to my t shirts, I just smelt one I havent washed in a month and it does have that feint sweat smell, although you have to sniff pretty hard to smell it, but being the winter I haven't sweated as much as in the summer, and when I do sweat its always on upper torso body area, I don't seem to sweat at all on my legs. I don't know if this makes any difference to clothes but I work in a permanent air conned room.
PS: I change my undies once every 3 weeks, it usually smells of cauliflower.
Yeah that's rubbish. Try reading some articles posted in this thread which debunk this.
Soldato
Clothing lasting a decade? As long as it still fits and hasn't fallen apart. Absolutely. Am I cheap? Umm no.
What nonsense have you been reading?
Is it written by somebody else who wears jeans for months or maybe somebody who makes them?
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Soldato
The CEO of Levi's was on the news here a few months back saying that he rarely washes his jeans, this might be from 'green' POV, however.
I only wash mine when my wife doesn't beat me to it. She thinks it's disgusting if they're not washed every week. I'd happily go a month or so without washing them, depends how much **** they get all over them.
I only wash mine when my wife doesn't beat me to it. She thinks it's disgusting if they're not washed every week. I'd happily go a month or so without washing them, depends how much **** they get all over them.
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Never. Have hand washed and dry cleaned once and the texture/drape of the cotton is irreversibly changed.
I've got tops as well that will never seen a washing machine and until absolutely necessary a dry cleaner either.
I've got tops as well that will never seen a washing machine and until absolutely necessary a dry cleaner either.
I could beleive that if they we put on clean that day or the previous day, unless your very sweaty or you were working out you should be fine for 3-4 days. Those that are quite fit can go longer and equally those who are not may need wash them sooner.
Nobody is the same, I run half marathons every year, walk to work and cycle so I'm a fairly active person.
4-5 days and my jeans get that moist feel to them and a slight smell which isnt great, not so bad that people would notice but I'd rather not take a chance as I don't think it's fair to others.
It's not pleasent when your interviewing a colleague with a odor issue which they're completely oblivious to, or to encourter people on public transport like this, in fact it's pretty horrible. (insert puke smiley)