[Closed] Not washing jeans....

After 18 months my jeans become a self-regulating ecosystem.

Ha!

I'd often wondered. Both about the not washing as much as the price in the first place.

Isn't there a similar theory about armpits?

My cousin owns a company making expensive jeans. Offered me a pair at cost price. £130!!!

I wish I'd asked him about not washing them: he is from Liverpool though so may have different ideas to us southerners! 🙂

I don't wash jeans until they get properly dirty, every 6-9 months probably. I think my Rapha jeans have been washed once since last Christmas. They're designed not to be washed. Unlike me, and I wear underwear. I can honestly say that I've never ever had skidmarks on my trousers, I'm worried that you're judging others for being dirty...

...designed not to be washed.

How are they different to any other jeans in resisting dirt and sweat?

I can honestly say that I've never ever had skidmarks on my trousers

I'm worried that you're judging others for being dirty...

Your jeans, however, have 6-9 months of your crotch sweat embedded in them.
🙂

njee20 - Member
I think my Rapha jeans have been washed once since last Christmas. They're designed not to be washed..

Hmmm, not too sure that's correct.

"I can honestly say that I've never ever had skidmarks on my trousers"

Not even when you properly scratch your arse. Like, really hard? Posh!

njee20 - Member
my Rapha jeans...

🙄

I wash my axe every day.

Smell test for washing jeans. Pick them up, smell the crotch area and take it from there 😉

They just get comfier the longer you wear them for. Freshly washed jeans feel awful.

[quote=njee20 ]I don't wash jeans until they get properly dirty, every 6-9 months probably. I think my Rapha jeans have been washed once since last Christmas. They're designed not to be washed. Unlike me, and I wear underwear. I can honestly say that I've never ever had skidmarks on my trousers, I'm worried that you're judging others for being dirty...

Aye but your arse crack is still sweating into the crotch and that wont smell nice

Pick them up, smell the crotch area and take it from there

Smegma, sweat, arse fog particulates, mud, road crap, animal shit....just sayin'

My current No1 jeans have been washed once I think, I've had them about a year.

The dye has faded over the left pocket into the exact shape of my phone, which is odd, because according to my wife it's always in my hand

animal shit

Indeed, crotch area is the first indicator that its time to wash them. So long as you wash low and hang to dry they will last. Mine last a week. But then I'm a cheapskate and wear Uniqlo or Muji.

Stick em in the freezer apparently (in a bag obviously).

Smell test for washing jeans. Pick them up, smell the crotch area and take it from there

thats about right, the GF would say something if they hummed. having 5-6 pairs on rotation probably helps and they do get a short cold wash when they need it.

wearing the same pair for weeks? no, thats just sociopathic.

What is so delicate about expensive jeans? I buy cheap ones and they last ok. Not as good as expensive work rang jeans but ok. Are designer jeans made of rubbish material?

I think my Rapha jeans have been washed once since last Christmas. They're designed not to be washed.

What do you mean by 'they're designed not to be washed'?

Wouldn't go more than a week in mine without a wash - not with my Betty Swollocks.

Still, I still wince at spending £80 on Howies jeans, most of mine are from Nex

I think I must not be fashionable enough for this thread.
Jeans cost ~£30, get washed every week and last a good 5yrs or so..........

fifeandy - Member

I think I must not be fashionable enough for this thread.
Jeans cost ~£30, get washed every week and last a good 5yrs or so..........

I'm with you there... I get mine from Next... wear wash wear wash.

On the washing thing, I have a few pairs of jeans and don't wear them that often, maybe a couple of hours at the weekend, so I don't wash them very often.

I'm happy to accept they don't need washing as frequently as you might think, assuming you don't spill your curry over them or something. Months and months is a bit of a stretch though for me.

They're designed not to be washed.

Any other marketing BS you'd like to share? 😆

I live in them. I have 2 pairs of next jeans in rotation and they get washed after a week (each) of wear usually. Maybe 2 weeks max if they haven't acquired too much crap. 1 pair is usually ready for the bin after a year. Next jeans are £30-40, so that's it for an annual jean cost. Seems reasonable to me.

Yeah, I hardly ever wear jeans, so they probably go a few years between washes.
My work trousers stay rolled up in my locker for a good few weeks before I remember to take them home and wash em too (well, I wear them between rolling them up and shoving them back in the locker.. ) 🙂

I buy next jeans but the £20 same jeans as twice their price on the next hanger but not paying for the naff belt. Its all about fit for me the fit like a glove no adjustments just leather belt 32 reg perfect leg length.
What a manky minging thread this was to start with as i eat my 10am peece

Jeans cost ~£30, get washed every week and last a good 5yrs or so.......

So hundreds of hours of wear over 5 years and 250 or so washes? Hmm.

[url= http://welldresseddad.com/2013/10/21/the-denim-guide-part-1-history/ ]Well dressed dad for all your sartorial advice[/url], jeans especially. Uniqlo actually get a good review for their jeans though most of the content is for heavy/expensive stuff like Iron Horse.

how sweaty do some of you lot get !!

I wash my raw denim jeans by wading into the sea at dusk while wearing them (best done at neap tide). If I time it just right, the jellyfish tentacles will clean them for me - lasts 6 months.

So hundreds of hours of wear over 5 years and 250 or so washes? Hmm.

Pretty much, is that not what jeans are all about?

johnners - Member

Jeans cost ~£30, get washed every week and last a good 5yrs or so.......

So hundreds of hours of wear over 5 years and 250 or so washes? Hmm.

I suspect he's got more than one pair.

Mingers!

But then if you only pop down to the local artisan coffee shop your jeans won't get mucky!

Not washing them means that when you do (for raw/selvedge) you get better fades.

I like the Levis engineered jeans - The twisted leg ones.

I bought some limited edition 10 year anniversary ones in 2008.

Ask me if I've washed them ..... go on I dares yeh. 😆

I'm currently breaking in some selvage ones that will get their first wash after about 9 months of wear.

Some of you are clearly dirty ****ers 😆

My daily jeans - see other thread - get washed when dirty though.

This thread is quite worrying, apart from the not washing thing, which is quite trivial really, it seems that, given the STW demographic, many of you seem to be unaware that people over the age of forty should not wear jeans!

many of you seem to be unaware that people over the age of forty should not wear jeans!

It's fine as long as you don't have a gut that hangs over your belt.

It's fine as long as you don't have a gut that hangs over your belt.

and you don’t wear scuffed pointy crappy shoes or trainers designed for teens.

many of you seem to be unaware that people over the age of forty should not wear jeans!

Another fashion guru on the 'what jeans' thread said 'no jeans over 25'.

If I was worried I'd be confused about who to believe.

No, not even in those circumstances. [b]Never[/b]

you seem to be unaware that people over the age of forty should not [s]wear jeans[/s] give a toss what other folks think.

you seem to be unaware that people over the age of forty give a toss what other folks think.

Oh, I'm quite aware of that, and the extent to which that statement is true but this isn't about that